A Swain farming operation received a Grant Award: $6,000 grant to breed heritage birds. Mike and Joan Glover of Sleepy Hollow Farm are purchasing Buckeyes and Partridge Chanteclers — breeds on the near-extinct list. They are also hatching their own chicks, using a new incubator. With the purchase of a poultry processing unit, they can offer meat to their customers for the first time. —Smoky Mountain Times, Feb. 2011. Read it here.
