MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - For more than a year, Vermont law has required people to compost their food scraps and there are a growing number of ways to do it. One operation out of Montpelier takes that ...

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 ...

SEAFORD, Del. — Engineers with Perdue Farms are working on new methods of composting chicken waste in Delaware and on Maryland‘s Eastern Shore that could also control pollution. Perdue officials are ...

Discover the surprising benefits of backyard chickens with Mark from Self Sufficient Me. After a fox attack led to a complete overhaul of his setup, Mark shares five compelling reasons why keeping ...

Chicken manure could be a great addition to garden soil. Chicken waste is not waste at all, it’s actually a garden seed of gold that can be used as an organic fertiliser for lawn and garden. Hello ...

Dan Rodricks’ recent column urged the new governor to get a large-scale poultry waste incinerator built on the Eastern Shore (“Larry Hogan has a chance to be a green governor,” Dec. 13). This awful ...

[W]hen is a chicken farm not a chicken farm? When it is a composting facility, which according to an Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets memo from March also should be considered a solid waste ...

Chickens contribute to my compost system by providing manure but they are also very willing to help me shred compost material and work it into the pile. In return, they find nutritious and (what they ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...