See clips from the documentary film in this 24 minute video interview with the directors Robert Lughai and Tashai Lovington. Wisconsin Public Television, Director’s Cut.
Link to interview here. (Click on Watch Flash Video)

Witness if you will Gallus Domesticus … the backyard chicken. A mere few pounds of feather, bone, and muscle; a creature regarded by many as a rather humorous, though not so intelligent agent of food production. And yet, make note of a most singular phenomenon now taking shape across suburb and city.

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Redbook Magazine 1943
By Bob Hope for the Pepsodent Company

1. Of course, you know what a Victory Garden is. That’s a little garden where you go out and putter around for a while, and if you can straighten your back again it’s a victory. It’s fun, though. I have a beautiful patch — on my right hand where the blister broke!

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Song written in 1917
Composer: Brockman, James, 1886-1967
Lyrics: Jeff Branen

Out in our town everybody there,
Even tho the Mayor tries to do his share
Teachers, Preachers, digging everywhere
We’re as busy as can be
One old soldier close to ninety three,
With a shovel on his shoulder said to me.

I’ve been told I’m going to propose,
To a girl named Rose Little turnip nose,
Radish hair and freckles, I suppose,
I have bought a carrot ring.
Rosie, Rosie,
Just the proper thing,
I can cauliflower to breakfast, lettuce sing.

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