Hayden and Mary-Kate moving the chicken tractors along.  Wherever this goes, a rich layer of chicken ‘compost’ is left in its wake for any young trees or shrubs to be planted behind it.

We have a few seats remaining in our upcoming Internship Sessions

During their first 8-days, our interns immersed themselves in:

• Spring gardening bed prep and harvested early perennials.
• Beehive inspections and maintenance
• Field trip to Univ. of Illinois Woody Ag Research Site
• Harvested wild edibles and used in community meal.
• Laying out and planting of the first linear food forest for the CSC permaculture design. (see below)
• …and today they learned how to ‘harvest’ chickens. Continue reading →