046: A Conversation with The President of Chickenlandia, Dalia Monterroso

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Plans and Provisions Homestead

Jason White

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2 days ago

Welcome to the Plans and Provisions podcast, your source for homesteading and preparedness inspiration and information. As a new homesteader, Jason White shares his personal journey towards resiliency and independence. He'll be sharing his struggles and successes, giving you an inside look into the problems and solutions he faces along his journey of becoming less of a consumer and more of a producer. Join him for discussions and interviews with real people doing real things in the real world so that you can walk away with the confidence that you can do it too. He’ll be providing tips and tricks about gardening, security, food preservation, food storage, homeschooling, natural medicine, nutrition, grazing livestock, permaculture, communications and much more, so that you can find inspiration, motivation and practical information to help you on your journey. It's a mix of solo shows with Jason and interviews with amazing people that you are not going to want to miss. Hit subscribe and get ready to discover ways that you can take steps today to ensure a more independent and secure tomorrow.

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046: A Conversation with The President of Chickenlandia, Dalia Monterroso

Plans and Provisions Homestead

1 hour 2 minutes 20 seconds

2 years ago

046: A Conversation with The President of Chickenlandia, Dalia Monterroso

If there’s one thing that you’re almost sure to find on any property that even hints at being a homestead, it’s going to be the chicken. Chickens are a universal element to, not only the homesteading movement, but also the greater world at large. Their presence in the world spans cultures, continents and history, and are just a generally amazing element of the human experience.

Well today I welcome The President of Chickenlandia, Dalia Monterosso to the podcast to share her personal journey with chickens and how, she believes, these ubiquitous human companions can bring healing to a fractured world. She is a chicken educator, blogger, podcaster and You’re and has recently written a fantastic guide called “Let’s All Keep Chickens”

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

* Dalia shares about her life being raised by immigrant parents to working in Hollywood to becoming a mother.

* How she became fascinated with chickens and how that enthusiasm led her into teaching and speaking on the subject

* The origins of the “Chickenlandia” world.

* How chickens helped her recover from post pardum depression

* Her view that chickens are a universal human experience and their potential for bringing people together

* She share her vision for “community chicken coops” in urban settings

* She dives in to the current paradigm in chicken keeping and that fact that it is mostly based off of factory farming systems

* She challenges the idea that chickens have to be expensive to raise

* She shares some great ideas for stretching your chicken feed bill

* The challenges of relying on production breeds for a more sustainably raised chicken

* Considerations for breed selection

* We talk about chickens and kids

* She shares details of her new book which you can purchase here: BUY DALIA'S BOOK

DALIA'S WEBSITE:

https://welcometochickenlandia.com/

DALIA'S PODCAST:

https://welcometochickenlandia.com/welcome-to-the-podcast/

DALIA'S YOUTUBE:

https://www.youtube.com/@WelcometoChickenlandia