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 ...

Discover how Mark from Self Sufficient Me built an innovative chicken composting ring using recycled plastic materials. This ...

[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 ...

Maggots are a common sight in compost piles and bins, but what do they do? What kind of maggots should you expect to find in your compost bin? How can you get rid of maggots if they become a problem?

Compost is black gold! It is the darling of the vegetable gardening community. So much so that people will spend untold hours and lots of back breaking labor creating it. This effort seems justified ...

On our self-sustaining, 13-acre mountain retreat, it’s a priority to maintain a self-contained, resourceful, and organic homestead. When we incorporated chickens into the mix, we were pleased not just ...

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Lancaster County, the leading poultry producer in Pennsylvania, sits at the epicenter of the latest national outbreak of ...

I feel such satisfaction every time I collect the eggs laid by my backyard flock. It does not surprise me that so many city-dwellers are choosing to have a small flock of chickens. It is empowering to ...