Raising Chickens Became More Than A Hobby For Some During The Pandemic … It’s part of a growing trend of people pushing for more opportunities to take food security into their own hands.
Daniel Simonich makes his living as a corporate architect, but at the beginning of the pandemic he was inspired to work on a different scale: building a chicken coop out of recycled pallets and scrap wood.
“Working from home remotely, I had time in the morning to actually make breakfast and I wanted to eat more eggs sustainably,” he said.
More than 80% of Hawaii’s food is imported, and seeing empty shelves during the early days of the pandemic caused many in Hawaii to pay closer attention to the state’s food security. Across the islands, people turned to gardening, learned how to eat invasive species or practiced new recipes with the island’s abundant staple crops.
Simonich invested in chickens.
