![]() Instead, he started with 25 chickens, and he’s grown the flock to 900.Ĭhef Vaughn initially met Phil at the Lawrence Farmer’s Market in 2015 and waited patiently for almost a year as Phil ramped up production to supply restaurants. ![]() After finding the perfect piece of land in Oskaloosa, Kan., he decided that there were enough other people raising hogs and doing a really good job at it. Farming, he decided, was the logical choice. While a student at Kenyon College in Ohio, he imagined a life that matched with his values of family, community, stewardship, peace, faith and creativity. He and wife Sally grew up in Salina, Kan. Phil didn’t grow up on a farm, but he loves food. When one finds a bug, it will take off running and try to hide, but the running notifies the others that chicken has a bug, and the others try to get it. They’re not stressed, they play with each other. “Just listen to them,” Phil says, as Ophelia carefully pours the supplemental feed into a PVC-pipe trough and clucking chickens come running for breakfast. Phil hands her a GLAD brand plastic freezer container, which he has found holds exactly 3 pounds of feed. He fetches a bucket of non-GMO feed from a family-owned artisan grain mill in Perry, Kan. When Ophelia asks if she can feed the chickens, Phil obliges.
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