Everyone is cottagecore now

Suppliers of chicken hatchlings and vegetable seeds are being overwhelmed with orders from those newly homebound because of COVID-19 quarantines and shelter-in-place orders. NPR reports that hatcheries have been getting a wave of new customers who want to grow chickens for eggs in their backyards, and can barely keep up. Nancy Smith, owner of the Cackle Hatchery in Missouri, says, “We’ve never seen anything like this and I’ve been here since 1964.”

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