By the time COVID-19 hit, 75-80% of Sweetlove’s chickens were restaurant-bound. Instead, he started with 25 chickens, and he’s grown the flock to 900.Ĭhef Vaughn initially met Phil at the Lawrence Farmer’s Market in 2015 and waited patiently for almost a year as Phil ramped up production to supply restaurants. After finding the perfect piece of land in Oskaloosa, Kan., he decided that there were enough other people raising hogs and doing a really good job at it. Farming, he decided, was the logical choice. While a student at Kenyon College in Ohio, he imagined a life that matched with his values of family, community, stewardship, peace, faith and creativity. He and wife Sally grew up in Salina, Kan. Phil didn’t grow up on a farm, but he loves food. When one finds a bug, it will take off running and try to hide, but the running notifies the others that chicken has a bug, and the others try to get it. They’re not stressed, they play with each other. “Just listen to them,” Phil says, as Ophelia carefully pours the supplemental feed into a PVC-pipe trough and clucking chickens come running for breakfast. Phil hands her a GLAD brand plastic freezer container, which he has found holds exactly 3 pounds of feed. He fetches a bucket of non-GMO feed from a family-owned artisan grain mill in Perry, Kan. When Ophelia asks if she can feed the chickens, Phil obliges.
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