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How poultry producers are ravaging the rural South
http://www.grist.org/article/parker1 21 Feb 2006 6:51 PM A person driving through the South might notice the chicken houses dotting the hills and flatlands. He might marvel at the larger ones, as long as a football field. He might react to their gagging stench for a moment, and then forget as he travels on. But those who…
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This is a letter from someone who has had the misfortune of living near industrial chicken houses…
Good day, let me add to the Barefoot Farmer’s fight. I have a home in Clay county located in a Lake View Estates subdivision of 20 plus homes & more being built. Back in ’07 Cagle & Keystone built a CAFO with 6 buildings that house 150000 birds. We tried to fight it with over…
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Channel 5 Airs Story about Jeff
by Mark Bellinger RED BOILING SPRINGS, Tenn.- The man known as the “Barefoot Farmer” is fighting to keep chicken houses away from his organic farm. Jeff Poppen may have already lost the first battle. Construction has already started just a few hundred feet from his back door and he fears the houses could kill his…
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Downwind, Downstream, and Downhill
http://biodynamicsbda.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/downwind-downstream-and-downhill/ November 2, 2011 by biodynamicsbda By Karen Davis-Brown ©Long Hungry Creek Farm Imagine that you live in a paradise. Long Hungry Creek Farm is located outside the town of Red Boiling Springs, in Macon County, in the hills of north central Tennessee. It is one of the oldest (established in 1974) and largest (250…
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What Cobb wrote in response to one letter writer…
Here is what Cobb wrote back to a letter writer, who was kind enough to share Cobb’s response to their letter with us: “Thank you for recent letter. We respect your right to express your views about plans by a Macon County family farmer to build chicken houses near Jeff Poppen’s property; however, we also…
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2011 Biodynamic Conference Detailed Schedule
Here is the detailed schedule for this year’s conference: 2011 BD schedule (pdf)
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Young farmer leads while learning from the past
VOL. 35 | NO. 34 | Friday, August 26, 2011 Green Business Young farmer leads while learning from the past By Hollie Deese Eric Wooldridge never intended to come back to the Bells Bend area of West Nashville after college. In fact, the 24-year-old thought it was the last thing he would do. But…
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The EPA’s take: How Do CAFOs Impact the Environment?
[The EPA admits freely the potential dangers of CAFOs in this short, concise statement. –Alan] How Do CAFOs Impact the Environment? Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are facilities where large numbers of poultry, swine, cattle or other animal types are confined within a much smaller area than traditional pasture operations. The concentration of the wastes…