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How a Midwestern family with no agriculture experience travelled from a few backyard birds to a full-fledged farm - and found out why local chicks are better. When Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her man, she never dreamed what he'd inform her over evening meal - that his wish was to give up his office job (with benefits!) and start a commercial-scale pasture-raised egg farm. His whole agricultural experience contains bringing up five backyard hens, none of whom had yet laid a single egg. To create this pastured chicken ranch, the couple scrambles to acquire nearly 2,000 birds - all known as Lola. These hens, purchased commercially, arrive bereft of basic chicken-like intuition, including the evening urge to roost. The newbie farmers also package with the own shortcomings, making for a failed inspection and extreme struggles to keep livestock alive (significantly less laying) throughout a brutal winter. But with much dose of laughter, they figure out how to negotiate the highly stressed no-man's-land known as middle agriculture. Amundsen views firsthand how these midsized farms, situated between small-scale businesses and mammoth stock farms, are vital to rebuilding America's local food system. With an unexpected passion for this dubious organization, Amundsen stocks a messy, wry, and entirely educational account of the unexpected payoffs (and frequent pitfalls) of 1 couple's ag experience - and many, many hours spent wrangling birds.
