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 “Permaculture Internship Program – Update 1, 2013”