Posts Tagged ‘ compost ’

Belgian Town Gives Chickens To Residents

By cmf
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March 3, 2010
Belgian Town Gives Chickens To Residents

According to the BBC, the town of Mouscron, in Belgium, has 50 pairs of chickens it plans to give to residents as a way to decrease the waste stream. I have to say, my chickens have both significantly lowered my household and garden waste, and here in the arid west, they’ve exponentially sped up...
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Clean Beds

By cmf
March 25, 2009
Clean Beds

This was my other weekend project — cleaning out the garden beds and turning over the soil. I used straw mulch last year, which was a great success, but it was a seedy batch, and I wound up with a sturdy winter cover crop of wheat. I experimented a couple of months ago with...
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