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Barbara Palermo, the Salem chicken lady who had greatness thrust upon her when a neighbor ratted her out for having some hens in her West Salem backyard, has morphed in just about a year from quiet suburbanite to woman on a mission.
Likely you’ve heard her story of urban chicken keeping gone bad, which has been featured in the Statesman, Salem Monthly, the Wall Street Journal, and other places.
Now she’s making a documentary. I’m guessing it will be Food Inc. meets Public Enemies.
The trailer can be seen above. At this point, it’s little more than a cheeky intro comment, a low-fi rapper rapping about chickens, and over a full minute of credits.
Screw the rapper, let’s see some chickens!
Lots of chickens at the Oregon State Fair today . . . they were too big to miss! Ho ho!
Too bad that the folks who put together the poultry exhibit didn’t think to catch the urban hens wave and make the Fair a bit more relevant to Oregon’s predominant population groups (urban and suburban) by showing some good coop designs for backyard hen keeping. I bet if they put a backyard hens exhibit in the fair next year and let various vendors provide coops, they’ll have a lot of takers and a lot of interest.
The onus should be on every exhibitor to make their exhibitions accessible and relevant to a wide audience — what a lost chance! Then again, I can see why farms aren’t interested in cultivating interest in chicken keeping among city homeowners.
[...] found my peace at the chicken coops. Like LoveSalem said recently, it’s a rather disappointing exhibition, but the hens and cocks themselves were [...]