Lisa Colton’s backyard chicken coop has not been uncontroversial, but it has provided a unique educational experience for friends and neighbors. These chickens do not provide enough eggs to fill the demands of the families who care for them, but they help re-establish a link between the food and the fed: participants in CLUCK (the Charlottesville League of Urban Chicken Keepers) are gaining valuable insights into the nature of food production and animal husbandry, so that now when Eli Colton eats eggs for breakfast, he has a better picture of how that egg came to be.

Many many thanks to the Colton Family for hosting 3 compostmodernists for the weekend in which this video was made. The video is narrated by john and phil, shot and edited by will.