From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] Chickens to the Rescue- How Keeping Chickens Can Fuel The Local Food Revolution interview with Patricia Foreman Sustainable World Radio
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:26:57 -0800
Chickens to the Rescue- How Keeping Chickens Can Fuel The Local Food
Revolution! Interview with Patricia Foreman Sustainable World Radio
Chicken expert and admirer Pat Foreman shares why she believes that
chickens are an integral part of the local food movement. Foreman,
author of the books City Chicks and Chicken Tractor- The Permaculture
Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil, talks about how chickens are
talented composters, soil builders, living fertilizer machines, and
bio-recyclers. Listeners beware! According to Foreman, chickens are
also the gateway to other livestock.
*Patricia Foreman/Good Earth Publications Website/
http://www.goodearthpublications.com/*
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G/ ot Chickens? A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food, and
superior soil quality, has led more and more suburban and city dwellers
to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens. Across America
municipalities are allowing, and even encouraging, residents to keep
laying hens within city limits.
Listen to Patricia Foreman, author of */City Chicks~Keeping Micro-flocks
of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local
Food Suppliers/, * as she shares her humor, passion, and extensive
knowledge about raising chickens in the cities and suburbs of America.
Patricia Foreman graduated from Purdue University with degrees in
Pharmacy and Agriculture. At Indiana University's Graduate School of
Public and Environmental Affairs she earned a Master of Public Affairs
degree, with majors in Health Systems Administration and International
Affairs. She completed the Virginia Master Gardener's program in 1999
and a Permaculture Design Course with Bill Mollison 1991.
Pat has kept poultry for over 20 years. Her experience includes
operating a small-scale farm raising free range, organic layers,
broilers and turkeys. She keeps a backyard flock of heritage chickens.
Pat is also the co-author of "Chicken Tractor, Day Range Poultry,
Backyard Market Gardening, and A Tiny Home to Call Your Own".
/*Patricia Foreman Book Tour Nov. 14-Dec 20 CA, AZ ,NM Tour Organizer
www.sbpermaculture.org
Official tour sponsor, Permaculture Credit Union www.pcuonline.org
<http://www.pcuonline.org/>
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[permaculture] Chickens to the Rescue- How Keeping Chickens Can Fuel The Local Food Revolution interview with Patricia Foreman Sustainable World Radio,
Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 11/25/2011