After my first interview with Brian Yager, I'm feeling more confident about the direction my article will be going. As we're writing about the kids' perspective, I think I'll be focusing on the positive effect that backyard chickens have on a family. Yager said that having chickens unified his family, with family activities like rounding up the chickens in the evenings, and his kids came to love the chickens as pets. Of course I'll be taking the sustainable angle as well, if I can get enough personal stories. Unfortunately Yager's chickens died before they were able to get eggs, and so I couldn't get the perspective on the circle of life or the newfound understanding of sustainability.
Now all I need is more firsthand perspectives on the positive effects chickens have on the family to be able to paint a descriptive picture.
Emma's thoughts: like how they make you feel inside, does the family want to eat them? i would. Maybe i could dress up like a wolf and see the families reaction to their chickens being attacked, hopefully i dont traumatize them too much. I feel so cool im a blogger.
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I like the wolf idea. Very SV Mag, don't you think?
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