Chickens & Your Garden: 7 Ways To Use Chickens In Your Permaculture Garden ‘What The Cluck?!’ Sessio

We use chickens in our garden every season to lower our workload and enhance our soil. Particularly, if you're interested in permaculture, then this episode of What The Cluck?! is for you. One of the easiest ways to get a third use out of your chickens is to use them in your garden.    You'll save time, money, and energy.   In this episode of What The Cluck?! we explore how to use chickens in your garden.    You'll learn: How to save money on sustainable fertilizer Which nutrients your chickens add to your garden and how When NOT to use chickens in your garden   (LIKE THIS PODCAST? LISTEN TO THE REST HERE) Links we discuss: Thrive Market   Feeding Your Hens Right   How to Build a Chicken Tractor With Reclaimed Wood //   Transcript Hi there, and welcome to session 12 of What the Cluck?!, a podcast devoted to keeping chickens for fun and self-sufficiency. I’m Maat from FrugalChicken, and in this episode we’ll look at ways to use chickens in your permaculture garden, and while this seems like an odd time to talk about it, it is December after all, now is the time to implement these ideas.   Whether you currently own chickens or not, you’ll love this episode because you’ll learn about how chickens can contribute to your homestead beyond just the usual eggs and meat.   If you don’t own chickens, but need to convince a family member why chickens are advantageous, there’s a lot in the episode for you.   If you own chickens, but just use them for eggs and meat, you’ll learn a third way chickens can “earn their keep” so to speak, especially in the winter when they stop laying.   So stay with me!   Now before we get started, I just want to briefly mention a company that I love and that’s Thrive Market.   Why do I love them so much? Well, first off, if you don’t know what Thrive Market is, it’s an online organic supermarket, and it’s a little like Costco meets your favorite farmers market.   I personally buy a lot of the products I can’t m