Chicken Tractor Permaculture
Our most obvious
permaculture technique is our chicken tractors. We have three of
them, and I wouldn't be surprised if we have twice that many in a few
years. For the uninitiated, a chicken tractor is a moveable
chicken coop/run with everything your chickens need in a small
space. Each morning, I move the tractors to a new patch of lawn,
where they scratch for bugs, engulf greenery, and fertilize the
ground. We get free lawnmowing and fertilizing along with better
eggs
while the chickens get healthy additions to their diet --- it's a
win-win.
Animals are
an important part of any natural ecosystem, but most modern
farming tries to cut them out of the picture.
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We invented our homemade chicken
waterer specifically for tractors. Check it out to prevent
spilling of water on uneven terrain.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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