A successful garden doesn’t start at the garden center—it starts with resourcefulness. Rich soil builds strong plants, and ...

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 ...

Composting is a win-win ...

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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This Sunshine week, make a gift and it will be matched dollar for dollar. Chickens feed on food scraps blended with other ingredients at the Vermont Compost farm in Montpelier. Courtesy photo. It’s ...

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