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Amy Halloran lives on half an urban acre in upstate New York with her husband, two sons, and a number of chickens. She writes about the changing foodscape for various outlets, and houses her work at amyhalloran.net.
These days, everyone seems to enjoy tending chickens and eating local. But lifestyles are rarely ways of life, and the grain that goes into our daily bread is still easiest to obtain from giant operations. Visiting a dying small farm shows why.