On Jul 20, 11:42*pm, sf > wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:00:04 -0700, Lin >
> wrote:
>
> >BD wrote:
>
> >> A good documentary about the food industry in the US. *I have to find a new
> >> way to purchase chicken. *I already buy beef from a farmer by the
> >> hindquarter, and produce from the CSA.
>
> >Our CSA has just gotten into poultry. However, the pricing we've seen is
> >around $4/lb. Our 'Lamb Guy' is also getting into the whole organic,
> >free-range, blah-blah-blah chicken business, probably on a much smaller
> >scale. Since I don't know "who" the poultry producers for our CSA are,
> >I'd go with Lamb Guy's product first. But yeah, the CSA's are getting in
> >on the action.
>
> Did you see the article in the SF Chronicle a couple of years ago
> about one of the milk producers in Marin county that produces free
> range eggs too? *Apparently he has mobile hen houses that he moves
> around his pastures on a regular basis. *Whatta concept. * *I love
> the idea!

It's called a Chicken Tractor. Old concept in the permaculture
field, I think Bill Mollison may have invented the name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison .

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada