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More and more I am thinking that something like this is what I would have to use because chickens need rotating more often than plants do. I am curious, though, about collecting the manure in your kind of set up. From an environmental standpoint it is better to turn manure into natural gas...

I appreciate all this. I have grandparents on both sides of my family who were farmers at some point in their lives so Ive been around gardening since I was born. I have over 30 years experience with my own vegetable garden so I well know to take a lot of what gets said in gardening books with...

Ive asked about this on other boards off and on in recent years and I have gotten various estimates: 3 chickens in a 4x4 bed would need at most just a week to dig everything up with 2 weeks needed for the manure to compost before I can plant anything. 6 chickens would need just 5 days to dig...

Part of the reason why the walled gardens in Britain were given up is that cheap imports reduced the economic value of the walled gardens and in the process Britain forfeited its self-sufficiency in food (and could have lost World War II as a consequence). America is now in the same situation...

Does anyone know how long it would take a single chicken to dig up all of the vegetation in a 4 foot by 4 foot area? I am trying to figure out a way to use chickens in a rotation scheme in a vegetable garden. I figure Id plant a cover crop to improve the soil and then let chickens do the work...

Back in the 1980s British TV did a series, The Victorian Kitchen Garden, about restoring a walled garden on a Victorian Era county estate. The 80-something year old head gardener who worked on the estate running a commercial plant nursery was trained as a child by his uncle who was the head...

I am trying to work out a planting schedule for the Piedmont region of South Carolina because I want to buy a piece of property there. However, this is a purely academic exercise since there is practically no chance that I will ever buy property in SC or anywhere else. My own health isnt good...