[Stumbled upon this article & thought some might enjoy it)
Beehive Used as Chicken Incubator
Finding that the temperature in a beehive was exactly the same as that required for hatching eggs, an American living in Rome conceived the idea of letting his bees do the hatching. He built a...
This email came to me through a mailing list (Help a Reporter Out). If you can help her out, you "may" get your name/farm/website mentioned in the book. I don't know if that's the case or not you'll have to work that out with Manita.
(I have no interest in this just thought I'd pass it along.)...
This is from the USDA's Farmer's Market Glossary of Terms:
"FREE-RANGE: Free-range, free-roaming, and pastured imply that a product comes from an animal that was raised unconfi ned and free to roam. Free-range claims on beef and eggs are unregulated, but USDA requires that poultry have access...
I'm a freelance writer and have been contracted to write an article entitled "Tips on Starting a Small Organic Layer Business". My research so far has turned up a decent amount of information (and misinformation) about the subject, but I am hoping the good folks here would have some real-life...