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  VIDEO: Brooklyn’s Backyard Chicken Keepers

  Do It Yourself!, foodcurated.com, Local Livestock, New York City, Urban Agriculture

  “You don’t need a farm to raise chickens. Meet Megan Paska and Katrina Mauro both Mother Hens to four curious egg-laying chickens inGreenpoint, Brooklyn. They decided to raise chickens for the first time in their tiny urban backyard as a way to live more sustainably. What they discovered is that raising chickens is easier than raising a dog…and just as rewarding. Come take a peek into their backyard operation and see for yourself why keeping chickens should be something more urban dwellers (with a [...]

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  VIDEO: The Good Slaughter: A Proud Meat Cutter Shares His Processing Floor

  foodcurated.com, Local Livestock, Local Processing, New York City

  “My hope is that my children will have the same passion for this as I do…” Meet Larry Althiser, the owner and head meat cutter for Larry’s Custom Meats in Hartwick, NY, a small farming community in the Northern Catskills. Larry takes pride in his slaughterhouse. He’s been butchering and processing animals for over 30 years, learning through hard work his philosophy on the right way to slaughter animals so we can eat. I spent two days upstate with Larry [...]

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  VIDEO: Building Artisan Slaughterhouses to Feed the Demand for Grass-fed Meat

  foodcurated.com, Local Distribution, Local Livestock, Local Processing, New York City

  “Meet Chris Harmon, a local farmer and the Executive Director of CADE, The Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship. CADE is a non-profit organization working to help build the necessary infrastructure so that farmers can survive and thrive in upstate New York. More and more people are interested in knowing where their food comes from. And with local grass-fed meat in high demand along the East Coast, many farmers are looking towards repurposing their unused dairy land to raise animals. [...]

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  VIDEO: Novella Carpenter’s Urban “Ghost Town Farm”

  chow.com, Do It Yourself!, Eat Local, Local Livestock, People, SF Bay Area, Urban Agriculture, Videos

  A great and slightly gritty portrait from chow.com of author and Urban Farmer Extraordinaire Novella Carpenter. Her hilarious book “Farm City” chronicles her tales of trial and triumph at Ghost Town Farm in Oakland, CA. Also check out Novella’s book and blog! From chow.com: Novella Carpenter started small, with some plants in an empty lot next to her house in Oakland. A couple of years later, she was tending to a full-blown farm, with goats, turkeys, ducks, pigs, and a robust garden. Her book, Farm City, details her [...]

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