Chris Ladd

Yankee Magazine

Essence of Emu

The emu, like its cousin the ostrich, is a strange bird: 5 to 6 feet tall and 90 to 140 pounds of fat, muscle, and feathers, impossibly balanced by 6-inch, flightless wings. Ten years ago, the first generation of American emu entrepreneurs lost their shirts, and the number of such farms in New England dropped […]