On a quiet stretch of pasture in North Carolina, a former collegiate tennis player named Jack has built a thriving ...

GOBBLERS GONNA GOBBLE: Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview is raising 450 turkeys in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday. Photo courtesy of Hickory Nut Gap Farm Fall is always busy on Western North ...

UC Davis today 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 benefiting ...

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 ...

Raising chickens for meat on pastureland provides entertainment and a superior dining experience to flavorless supermarket fowl. Want to ensure that the bird on your plate was treated humanely and ...

Gabriel Jimenez, from Puerto Rico, and Tamita Brown, from Jamaica, are a dedicated Caribbean couple who collaboratively own and operate 74 acres of farmland in Wilkes County, Georgia. Together, they ...

Farmer Duane Smith of Riverbend Heritage Farm in Stanley, North Carolina, had planned to have his pasture-raised turkeys processed on the Monday before Thanksgiving. Although he had booked the ...

There will be no turkey on Nancy Olewiler’s dinner table Christmas Day. Earlier this year, the Abbotsford farm that grows the pasture-raised poultry Olewiler prefers halted turkey sales when it could ...

A slowdown in consumer demand at farmers’ markets, amid soaring fuel and feed costs, has been the breaking point, say farmers. Ilan Goldman, of Mirboo Pastured Poultry at Mirboo North, raised his meat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a growing industry centered on sustainable, healthy and humane food, “pasture-raised” chicken has become the premium badge in ...

The first batch of chicks has arrived at the Perry Farm, and by the end of June Cape native Drew Locke will be supplying local restaurants and individuals with locally raised organic chickens, a ...

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 ...