{"id":144605,"date":"2024-05-31T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-chickens-are-in-fine-feather-and-so-is-my-compost-bin\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T17:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:13:01","slug":"my-chickens-are-in-fine-feather-and-so-is-my-compost-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-chickens-are-in-fine-feather-and-so-is-my-compost-bin\/","title":{"rendered":"My chickens are in fine feather \u2013 and so is my compost bin"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAs well as a steady supply of eggs, the birds create fantastic compost, and pick away at weed seeds and aphidsThe first spring after we moved out of London to East Sussex coincided with the first lockdown, and like so many people with access to a garden, I spent it growing crops. As the first tranche of seedlings were ready to be planted out into our new vegetable beds, I received an email from a nearby farm saying our chickens were ready to pick up. We drove them home slowly, listening to them quietly chattering to each other in their cardboard box.By chance, we\u2019d moved into a house that already had a fox-proof coop in the garden, but we little thought that we\u2019d be spending more time with these four birds than with any other living things as those strange locked-down weeks turned into months. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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