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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover the secrets to creating nutrient-rich chicken compost and learn how to use it effectively to plant garlic and more! In this video, we'll guide you through each step of making and utilizing ...

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.

Management of animal wastes has been the focus of intensive research for the past two decades. While manure management techniques have been studied, little information is available about the economic ...