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 ...

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.

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Incorporate compost into new beds before planting, mix it into containers, scatter it over the lawn or use it in place of ...

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 ...

To make compost gather enough materials to make a pile at least three feet deep, mix the dry materials such as fallen leaves, shredded tree branches, cardboard, newspaper; hay or straw; wood shavings.

A compost chimney is a simple addition to any pile that can speed up the composting process and eliminate slow or smelly ...

The trick (the only trick?) is to always have something happening. To have some compost brewing, seeds germinating, beds warming undercover, etc. Make it a part of your daily routine, like anything ...