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Chicken-Powered Composting: Nature's Efficient Recyclers at Work

April 1, 2025
By Michael Cohen
Would you like some help with composting but are short on labor? Let your chickens do the work! At Garden to Table Silicon Valley Community Farm in San Jose they create a mound, or “Chicken Mountain”, of agricultural scraps and sprouted seeds for the flock, where the chickens eagerly peck and…
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