Andy Vlcek didn’t grow up planning on farming. His father died in 2010. A few years after, around 2012, Vlcek moved home to help his mother maintain Nature’s Grove Farm, their small family operation ...

A woman grabs a brown egg from a cardboard carton, multiple dozens sit in cartons in the background - Natalia Deriabina/Shutterstock "To find truly fresh, pasture-raised eggs, look for local farmers ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — A study conducted by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has shown that eggs produced by chickens allowed to forage in pastures are higher in some beneficial ...

Common chicken "wisdom" suggests that the more orange the yolk, the better the egg. A bright orange yolk implies that the ...

This week, Mike Geller from Mike's Organic shows Tina Redwine how to make natural and healthy recipes.

From free-range to cage-free to the latest term pasture-raised, there are plenty of poultry production practices a chef and/or restaurant owner can choose from. When confronted with making that ...

Pasture raising chickens differs from the large-scale production of chickens in many ways, but the starkest difference is the amount and type of space available to the birds. Large-scale chicken ...

Jasmine Bryce started JB's Pastured Produce, a poultry farm, to reconnect with her rural roots. Bryce raises her chickens using humane practices, including open-air enclosures and non-GMO feed. She ...

About a quarter-century ago, American farmer Joel Salatin pioneered a portable chicken coop that allowed chickens to graze on new pastures every day. At the time, most chickens were crammed in ...