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 ...

Your articles and tips have made my goal of living off my land a reality. After 20-plus years, it was time to redo my composting bins. Building a new compost bin inside my chickens’ fenced-in area has ...

In this video, I show you what has happened to the chicken compost making ring 3 months after its first use and how the ...

[W]hen is a chicken farm not a chicken farm? When it is a composting facility, which according to an Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets memo from March also should be considered a solid waste ...

BLACKVILLE – Necessity was the mother of invention when it comes to Humble Acres Organics in Blackville, its owners say. Chicken farmer Tim McCormick and his son, Kevin, said they trusted in the Lord ...

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 ...