Harvey Ussery, pioneer farmer and author of the newly-updated seminal manual, The Small-Scale Poultry Flock, has set out what he calls “an all-natural approach” to raising chickens for home and market growers. He has spent his life developing a truly viable poultry model that sequesters carbon and is hygienic, neighbour-friendly and food-secure; like him, many smaller-scale poultry producers and farmers throughout the UK have developed agroecological chicken systems that work for them.
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Do chickens deserve better? - Sustainable Food Trust
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