UC Davis today (Nov. 19) unveiled its new Pastured Poultry Farm, home to 150 young laying chickens and a living laboratory where students and researchers hope to develop innovative solutions ...
If you've been around here a while, you might remember a couple of posts about the pastured-poultry movement. Pastured poultry is new old-style: beyond cage-free, beyond free-range, it puts chickens ...
While it’s still a small market, pastured poultry — a method of raising poultry on open pastureland — has flourished in recent years as consumer demand for humanely-raised, antibiotic-free meat has ...
A trade group representing pastured poultry farmers is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clarify how the term "pasture raised" can be used on egg cartons, saying current rules ...
“Chicken was the last frontier,” says Leah Garces — a statement that does not give away an important plot development in the new “Star Trek” movie but rather explains the impetus behind Pastured ...
Palouse Pastured Poultry chickens live outside, pecking for insects and foraging for alfalfa and weeds – most of the time. Unless it rains: Then the fair-weather birds like to tuck into one of the 10 ...
Mitchell McCarthy, a UC Davis agricultural and biological systems engineering student, holds a young layer chicken on his arm in front of the portable coop dubbed “the Eggmobile” at UC Davis. McCarthy ...
Georgians for Pastured Poultry—a collective of farmers, chefs, environmentalist and animal rights groups, and concerned individuals launched this year—has named this Pastured Poultry Week. Judging by ...
I get this a lot: "I understand that the things you write about are important -- but they're so depressing. Couldn't you write some, you know, good news, for a change?" So here you go: a solutions ...
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - Tucked away on the south side of Enterprise, Zach Drysdale is clearing space for his new passion. “It was once, as you can see behind me, once an overgrown, clear-cut pine ...
It's no secret that the labels on the foods we buy can be incredibly confusing. And when it comes to understanding the tags on meat products, there's a lot of information to process — especially with ...
Pastured Poultry Week returns to Charleston next month, with 15 local restaurants featuring birds raised out-of-doors on their menus. Sponsoring organization Compassion in World Farming says "pastured ...