[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 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 ...

Millions of chickens in Jefferson County have been affected by avian flu outbreaks, and residents near a composting site in Palmyra say the smell of the cleanup is making life difficult.

On our self-sustaining, 13-acre mountain retreat, it’s a priority to maintain a self-contained, resourceful, and organic homestead. When we incorporated chickens into the mix, we were pleased not just ...

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 ...

I feel such satisfaction every time I collect the eggs laid by my backyard flock. It does not surprise me that so many city-dwellers are choosing to have a small flock of chickens. It is empowering to ...

Sustainable manure treatment means managing manure so that it becomes safe, predictable, and beneficial once applied to soil.

This past spring, I set out to design and maintain a sustainable garden in my backyard—and a big part of that project has involved using chickens to fertilize my soil and help process my compost pile.