Chickens peck at food scraps in a compost pile at Black Dirt Farm, a chicken farm that uses food waste as feed. Photo by Justin Trombly/VTDigger Chicken farmers who also run compost operations say a ...

Your articles and tips have made my goal of living off my land a reality. After 20-plus years, it was time to redo my composting bins. Building a new compost bin inside my chickens’ fenced-in area has ...

[W]hen is a chicken farm not a chicken farm? When it is a composting facility, which according to an Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets memo from March also should be considered a solid waste ...

Regarding “Dispute over chicken cages brings debate back to lawmakers” (News, June 14), some lawmakers, at the behest of one company, have rushed through a last-minute bill to postpone one of Rhode ...

In this video, I show you my new idea for using our chicken to make compost via a compost ring made from recycled plastic. I also give an update on our mobile duck run. Self Sufficient Me is based on ...

This past spring, I set out to design and maintain a sustainable garden in my backyard—and a big part of that project has involved using chickens to fertilize my soil and help process my compost pile.

If you haven’t started your composting journey, consider this your sign to begin. Turning your kitchen scraps and backyard ...

BLACKVILLE – Necessity was the mother of invention when it comes to Humble Acres Organics in Blackville, its owners say. Chicken farmer Tim McCormick and his son, Kevin, said they trusted in the Lord ...

The Austin Resource Recovery will host free chicken keeping and backyard composting classes Saturday at the Austin Public Library - Manchaca Road Branch, 5500 Manchaca Road. The chicken keeping class ...