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Chickens coming soon to Tampa backyards? Maybe. listen

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Tags: chickens, backyard chickens, free range chickens, Tampa City Council

Tampa City Council is considering an ordinance that would loosen regulations on keeping chickens in backyards. At a regular meeting this morning, residents spoke on both sides of the argument.

Amanda Matthews supports relaxing regulations on backyard chicken ownership.

“They’re a great source of more nutritious and humanely produced eggs. And they’re a great opportunity to teach our children where their food comes from, responsibility and stewardship.”

The measure before Tampa cou...

Organic Animal Farming listen

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Tags: farming, organic, organic farming, chickens, food

Organic animal farming is becoming more popular. Consumer awareness of some negative health effects of inorganic chickens and eggs is increasing. WMNF’s Sadia Ahmed reports on the differences between organic animal farming and factory farming.

Live Oak resident Denis Stoltzfoos, provides organic meat, milk, and eggs to 200 families in Florida. The owner of Full Circle farm has been in the organic poultry farming business for last 8 years. Organic farming differs greatly from factory farmi...

Cluck and Backyard Chickens

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Tags: farming, organic, organic farming, chickens, law, environment

On today’s program our special guest was Jono Miller a teacher at New College and resident of Sarasota. Jono’s heading up an effort to get an ordinance adopted by the city of Sarasota to allow backyard chickens on January 18. His initiative is called CLUCK (Citizen’s Lobbying for Urban Chicken Keeping) and you can check out the blog at sarasotacluck.blogspot.com.

Plus founder and executive director of Tampa Premier Community Supported Agriculture proj...