About the Author

Carola Hotze

Carola Hotze studied Ecological Agricultural Sciences at the University of Kassel Witzenhausen. She works for the Meißner-Kaufunger Wald Nature Park and is co-owner of a landscape planning firm.

At home, she is particularly fond of the "Bergische Schlotterkamm," a rare and robust chicken breed that lives with other animals on her farm in Northern Hesse. As a teenager, she received her first chickens as a gift: a white hen from a battery cage and a rooster that had mistakenly ended up in the cages. From that moment on, her passion for chickens took hold.