Pretty Silkies Chicken (Photo via Fair Food Fight)
Low and behold I ran across an interview about Jake Schultz who’s a city chicken farmer in one of the biggest neighbourhoods in the movement: Powderhorn, Minneapolis. What’s amazing is that there are so many families raising chickens that they even have a “chicken tour” called the Parade of Coops (kind of like FoodShare’s sponsored community garden bus tour except for 2-legged egg layers). Unlike Toronto, the city of Minneapolis is pretty open to city chickens with an established permit system.
Interview with an Urban Chicken Farmer | Fair Food Fight: “As it turns out, our neighborhood in Minneapolis, Powderhorn, has one of the highest urban chicken populations in Minnesota, and Jake is part of a growing movement here. Urban chicken farming is a do-it-yourself, food-security movement aimed at bringing a little self-sufficient farm-life into the city, and lots of young people like Jake are pursuing it.”
You should definitely check out the interview especially about the pecking order of chickens and why not having free range chickens drives them to attack each other in factory farming systems.
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