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A community fundraising effort helped the Marshall County Ambulance Building become a reality. Photo by Doug Card/Britton Journal

Challenges for rural EMTs spark innovations

Despite the challenge of finding enough volunteers—or in some cases, because of that challenge—many rural ambulance services have come up with creative ways to serve their communities better.

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Chicken tractors: Putting the ‘chicken chain gang’ to work in the garden

With the revived interest in poultry come new ideas about how to keep them, including innovative designs for chicken tractors—mobile cages that get chickens outside and scratching on grass and dirt (or in unused corners of your garden, where they fertilize as they go) but that keep them safe from predators.