Fieldfair chicken
About ten years in the making. Hardy, feed-efficient and good mothers, bred for small farms and homesteads, with crests, beards, long tails, blue legs and eggs in many colours.
The 10‑Year Project
In 2009 Gene left Los Angeles for the mountains of Western North Carolina. He imagined a farm where every animal was part of one system, each supporting the others, and spent the next ten years creating four new breeds to live in it.
He thinks of it as a living art project: a dog, a cat, a chicken and a goat, shaped over generations by selective breeding to be hardy, useful and easy to keep with few outside inputs, and ready for a changing climate. He hopes to bring these animals to the parts of the world that need them most.
