The localvore movement (eating locally) is alive, well and growing in Massachusetts as more and more people understand the health and economic benefits of eating locally produced, organic food, but for one family in Fairhaven their efforts to produce their own eggs are being blocked by the Town’s Board of Health who ruled that the chickens are a threat to public health and safety. Kate Levin Vliet purchased a small flock of 12 hens in the spring of 2007 and applied for a permit to the Board of Health as is required in her Rural Residential zoning area.