NPC- ‘Non-Profit Chickens’

In this workshop, Scott talked about his small backyard urban garden and his experiments with integrating egg-laying chickens into the system on multiple levels. Faced with the economic reality of it being cheaper to buy eggs than produce them himself using store-bought feeds, he began to look for ways to reduce feeding costs and then ways to manage the chickens to add-value to him as a gardener apart from having eggs to eat each day. He leaned heavily on “Natural Farming” for ideas and will talk about how his chickens make eggs, fertilizer, compost, and vermicompost and also outline his different experiments in small-scale silage making for supplementary feed.