Your Daughter is wise, Freedom Farm is the best name that I have heard for the goals of most here.
Welcome and please join in the thread.
The question for today, that I do not know a perfect answer to, is:
How do you keep chickens out of the garden?
Laughing, and thinking that I should have said “Fry them for dinner!”
My first hit was a chicken tractor!
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