Post Office to Pasture: This organization is using baby chicks to help disabled adults

It is not every day you hear baby chicks peeping at your local post office, but for Halo Group in Perry, Georgia, that sound marks the start of a powerful new agricultural learning experience.

The Farm Monitor takes us along to see how this vocational farming program is helping adults with disabilities.

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