ATLANTA -- Do you want to live an organic self-sustaining life-style but tired of the specialty grocery store prices?

CBS 46 news understands that money is tight.

Consumer Reporter Kim Fettig looks at a growing way to go green.

Far from the farms of rural Georgia we found Ceasar, the city bird.

Ceaser lives right in the middle of Atlanta’s Morningside neighborhood with Cynthia Griffith and her family.

“It’s a novelty here in the city, plus it’s a little eccentric,” said Griffith.

But raising chickens in the city may be less eccentric than you may think.

Andy Schneider heads up Atlanta Pet Chicken Meet Up, a city chicken club. They have 90 members and are growing.

“Looks like the ladies produced some eggs last night so we will go ahead and get these out,” said Schneider as he collected his daily eggs.

“The health benefits are tremendous. The eggs that we have here are much higher in Vitamin E, much higher in amino acids, much lower in bad cholesterol,” said Schneider.

And it’s much cheaper too.

”With organic eggs being $4, $5, $6 a dozen, and you can produce them here for about a dollar a dozen,” said Schneider.

Once he picks up the tiny chicks from the post office, he gets them settled in at home.

The chicks will lay their eggs in about 5 months.

But the owners of these chicks will yield more than just eggs, starting with the chicken waste. The waste is great for an organic garden.

”They basically naturally fertilize it all winter long,” said Schneider.

The goats Patsy and Pearle eat the garden rubbish when they aren’t socializing with neighborhood dogs.

But with all these farm animals roaming local neighborhoods, surely there are rules against this urban farming?

”A lot of cities believe it or not, allow chickens,” said Schneider.

“Actually, chickens do not fall under the livestock ordinance,” said Griffith.

For local ordinances, you need to check town by town.

Some want to know if the people in the group eat the chickens. While the people we talked with only use them for pets, eggs, and garden fertilization, the club wouldn’t turn anyone away who did want to raise them to eat.

To find out more about Atlanta Pet Chicken Meet Up, go to www.meetup.com/chickens.