Last year we had the idea to start a little vegetable garden in a vacant lot next to my office building. We build 12 raised beds, filled them with soil , planted some seeds and waited for vegetables and flowers to appear. Although we were new at gardening some plants did very well ( we had a 9 ft tall sun flower) others did not so good. After talking the some seasoned gardeners, we found out we needed to fertilize our plants during the growing season (which we totally neglected).The best way to keep your plants happy and the vegetable big, is to fertilize the old fashioned , organic way using chicken manure.
And that is were we hatched our second idea, let's build a chicken coop , keep some chickens, enjoy the fresh eggs and produce our own fertilizer.
We have learned quite a bit about gardening last year, this year we are going to try to master the art of keeping chickens.
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