We got into it primarily from a pet standpoint because my daughter was interested in that, but as a family we were interested in sustainability and gardening and producing our own food.

So Aleisha Kropf started a small chicken flock in her backyard in Bloomington, Indiana. She will be joined by two other backyard chicken farmers for our roundtable discussion.

Harvest Public Media says the cooperative will be the fast-growing business model in the next ten years. Hilary Stohs-Krause takes a look at how the co-op being scaled up and down.

In the kitchen, Chef Daniel Orr assembles the world's best BLT and a decadent goat cheese appetizer.

And, Josephine McRobbie of Traditional Arts Indiana visit a pie shop in Atlanta, Indiana and brings us a story of entrepreneurship, innovation and community.

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