[P8riot]

My secret is chickens. I "free range a few dozen fryers" in "chicken tractors" in the areas I want to plant the following year. The chickens take care of bugs, grubs, and weed seed, scratch up the soil all while adding nitrogen. They do almost all of my prep work for me, all I have to do is turn it over a couple of times and plant. The chickens love it as it is their natural diet, and they are better tasting than anything you can get in the store (if you don't mind processing them).

During the growing season I turn my layers loose in the garden and they take care of any bugs that attack my plants, and keep down the weeds as well. They REALLY like Japanese beetles.

This isn't "organic" farming. This is "natural" farming.

[Gabz]

Way Cool. My husband had been making noises about chickens, but I haven’t heard anything on the subject in a while. I’ll show him that chicken tractor link and maybe he’ll start thinking about it again!

[Petronski]

Thanks for the chicken tractor link. Cyborg and I are getting four or five Barred Rock chicks in early June and I have been tasked with tractor construction.

After that, a buck and two does will be starting our rabbitry.

Mmmmm. Meat.