The Lord'll Provide

The Lord'll Provide

Mike Cross-The Lord'll Provide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA3PEv3LWEU

Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh

The fascinating story of a farmer trying to do the right thing, instead of the easy thing. "White Oak is home to one of the largest pastured chicken flocks in the country; at any given time, 60,000 birds wander the land in accordance with pasture-raised parameters. As the next level beyond free-range, this farm never contains its adult birds indoors, instead allowing them to roam without restraint at all times. This also means that for the Bald Eagles that showed up a few years ago, White Oak is an all-you-can-eat buffet.
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Right around the time Harris contacted the National Audubon Society, in December 2015, the eagles had moved from attacking chickens only to taking down turkeys, too. A few weeks later they went after the newborn goats. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a program that reimburses farmers who incur losses from protected wildlife, but to get the money, you must prove the predator caused each death—a complicated endeavor when you’re talking about thousands of chickens.
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Harris sees the land as sacred, and as self-appointed “land steward,” he sees himself as a caretaker—one individual in a long line of people who have tended this land, and who might go on to farm it for centuries more. If it’s cared for properly. “Nature abhors a monoculture,” Harris utters often, and it’s this belief that justified his transformation of White Oak. Farming his land as he does now ensures that it will continue to be healthy, be it for future farmers or future wildlife. For now, he’s willing to accept his oversized eagle population as the best evidence he’s got that he’s swung the pendulum back in the right direction. Not that he has much of a choice."
http://www.audubon.org/magazine/fall-2016/an-organic-chicken-farm-georgia-has-become-endless

Comments

  1. Zac Alleywalker LowingSeptember 20, 2016 at 7:39 PM

    Oh the irony, free range chickens, the eagles just see free

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  2. Timothy StreetSeptember 20, 2016 at 8:29 PM

    Needs more cover & fighting cocks

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  3. Cee ThornSeptember 20, 2016 at 8:35 PM

    Sounds like an environmental accident waiting to happen. Wait until some sickly chickens infect and kills all 70 something bald eagles at once. He'll have a heck of a fine from the Federal Govmint for killing a protected species. It seems like such a waste, so many chickens are lost and the Eagles aren't feeding on their natural foods. It's almost like at the dump where all the lazy, opportunistic birds go to feast and then he is looking to the gov't for reimbursement on his losses. His natural land management ideas are ridiculous. He's no steward of that land if you ask me. Bah!

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