We used to raise chickens–LOTS of chickens, at least as far as urban, backyard flocks go–until county regulations changed and required us to have more land to be able to raise the same number of chickens we’d had before.
We needed to purchase the vacant lot next door to be allowed to get back into the chicken business. In 2015, we held a crowdfunding campaign to raise a portion of the money and to rally community groups so the land bank could see that we had public support. We scraped together the rest of the money on our own, and finalized the purchase on May 4, 2016.
