I really enjoy how easy it is to help the glacier move downhill working with gravity and the action of the chickens. Definitely lots of room for improvement, but the general pattern seems pretty good! One thing I will say is that if I only had a wheelbarrow and no tractor, I would really want the bottom of the compost glacier to be located above the majority of my gardens ideally so that I could go downhill with the heavy load, and uphill empty. Of course the real world isn't always laid out exactly as we'd like!

Thanks! My pleasure :)

What law is this?

In the mini greenhouse it stays warm enough to keep going. What I usually do is around now I will put most of the material into that greenhouse and then cover it with leaves. The chickens can go in there all winter and it won’t freeze in that bed of composting material if it’s more than a foot or so deep.

I had access to that for a while - so much that we raised three pigs one year to try and keep up with it. But the brewery scaled up and needed someone to pick up the grains with a big truck so I got kicked off the pick up list! They are such a great resource though.

It might be possible but I don’t think it would work for me - the space is too unwieldy for even a small machine

instagram.com/markangelini/?hl=en He is much more active on instagram. I don't think he has shared a lot of video about their chicken systems, but maybe if you dig a little you will find something. He also is an extraordinary spoon carver!

Hard to believe that the government didn’t make the program easy for small farmers to work with!

@@jkochosc I am in Tennessee. Should have mentioned that. Oops. I would love to find a place to partner with to get there compostables.

I believe they’re molting. And if you throw grain in, like anyone does to give them a meal or treats, they jump back. They’re behaving perfectly normally.