Links
- Acres USA, A Voice for Eco-Agriculture Acres U.S.A. is North America's oldest, largest magazine covering commercial-scale organic and sustainable farming. Request a sample issue of Acres U.S.A. and a current book catalog which contains every book about organic or alternative management imaginable!
- American Livestock Breeds Conservancy The ALBC is a nonprofit membership organization working to protect nearly 100 breeds of cattle, goats, horses, asses, sheep, swine and poultry from extinction.
- Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas ATTRA is a sustainable farming information center that provides resources on sustainable agriculture, organic farming, and alternative enterprises.
- Eat Wild! Explains why grassfed is best, and lists sources of suppliers of grassfed products.
- FeatherSite Lots and lots of photos of the many chicken breeds!
- Homestead Poultry Butchering This description of home butchering is a hybrid between the article of the same title Harvey and Ellen Ussery published in Backyard Poultry Magazine, August/September 2006, and the butchering article on the above website before the February 2007 update.
- How To Butcher A Chicken This tutorial in blog format tells (and shows) you how to skillfully butcher a chicken in ten easy steps. Your instructor is Herrick Kimball, inventor of the world famous Whizbang Chicken Plucker.
- Organic Chickens A discussion list at yahoogroups devoted to raising chickens for eggs and meat in a humane manner, advocating organic feed, free-ranging on pasture, and natural methods for prevention and treatment of disease and parasites.
- Organic Chickens Message Board Covering the same topics as the email forum above, this message board has the same information in an easier to find format.
- Slow Food USA Nonprofit educational organization dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America.
- Slow Food International Questioning the validity of the fast-food philosophy as an unconscious credo that erodes culinary heritage.
- The Merck Veterinary Manual Where you can look up symptoms, find solutions, and even purchase the book.
