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 ...

In the fall, my husband and I take advantage of all the autumn leaves and use them as winter bedding in our chicken coop. When the leaves are dry, we use the leaf vacuum, bag them up and store them in ...

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.