This month we have been preparing the raised beds for our future winter crops with additions of organic matter, turning under crimson clover, and allowing the chickens to fertilize, conduct pest control, and do a little additional tillage of the soil. We try to integrate our entire urban farm. Everything we have has at least one function but most have many functions.  For example, our chickens provide eggs, make fertilizer for our crops, till the soil, control garden pests, and are…

During the growing season, and then again in the fall, we flail chop wheat straw and apply it to our raised beds. Fall applied…