Watch Here: https://youtu.be/E3m0f-Mj340
My wife and I moved to rural Virginia to live a simple life in a log cabin, grow some of our own food, and keep a few hens for fresh eggs. Then our county [issued an arrest warrant / threatened jail time] over 4 chickens.
In this video, we share what happened, from the first [letter / visit from code enforcement] to how it all played out.
We explain what the county said we did wrong, what the zoning rules actually said, and why we felt it was an overreach, especially in a rural area where people have raised chickens for generations.
This was never just about our hens.
It was about whether people in the country could still produce their own food on their own land.