![]() ![]() I got a passion for that, but not for my day job.”īut first, the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission has to approve the project. "This is going to enable me to work from home and still farm and stuff. “I would be considered a hobby farmer and I can’t financially make enough off farming to do it full time, so that’s why I work full time’ Essink said. He hopes it’ll let him leave his day job, installing passenger elevators on construction projects, and move into farming full time. Essink says he’s never done anything like this before. Randy Essink of nearby Cortland bought the property near June’s house and would run the operation. The chickens would be grown to supply the Costco plant being built in Fremont, scheduled to start running in September 2019 and eventually process more than 2 million birds a week. What June’s afraid of are different birds: chickens, nearly 200,000 of them, that could be housed in four 600 foot-long barns half a mile from her house. “Now, we’re going to be shut up in our houses because we can’t stand the smell outside?” June thinks they’re the same ones as in previous years, “‘cause they go to same tree where I feed ‘em under.”īut June’s afraid this tranquil scene may soon be disturbed. “They just flew away about three weeks ago. “For about last 10 years we’ve had a pair of geese, and this year there was seven of them, and they had 15 babies,” she exclaimed. June points out the 120 black walnut trees she planted, and the birds that come to visit near her pond. ![]()
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