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Rent the Chicken: Fresh Eggs Without the Commitment

A Houston affiliate of a service called Rent the Chicken seeks to make it easier for suburbanites to become backyard farmers. Ed and Diane Roberson, known in the Rent the Chicken world as “Homestead Ed and Diane” will rent you two or four egg-laying hens, a coop, chicken feed and the like for six months, with […]

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Ed Roberson of Katy, franchisee for Rent the Chicken. Photo: Paige Phelps, Houston Public Media.

A Houston affiliate of a service called Rent the Chicken seeks to make it easier for suburbanites to become backyard farmers.

Ed and Diane Roberson, known in the Rent the Chicken world as “Homestead Ed and Diane” will rent you two or four egg-laying hens, a coop, chicken feed and the like for six months, with delivery within 50 miles of Katy.

Paige Phelps visited their farm to find out more.

(Above: Ed Roberson of Katy, franchisee for Rent the Chicken. Photo: Paige Phelps, Houston Public Media.)

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