Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

My contributions to this topic begin at
 http://themodernhomestead.us/article/Feeding.html
--lotta info/ideas on offer there.

See also current issue of Backyard Poultry magazine, where my article on 
home feeding is one of the lead pieces.

~Harvey

> I'm considering having chickens in the near future, and want to avoid
> GMOs and other questionable ingredients in their feed. They don't need
> to be certified organic, as least not anytime in the foreseeable future,
> but I just want clean, healthful eggs and meat for us, as well as
> healthy birds, of course. Is there an economical (for a small flock)
> commercial organic feed (or at least non-GMO, and no animal by-products)
> available in New England, or an economical alternative by mixing one's
> own feed ingredients? Can you even get non-GMO corn commercially? I have
> way too little land to raise my own ingredients unless there may be
> something that you'd use only a little of. How long would say, 50# of
> feed last for a 10-12 bird flock (layers)?   ~Barbara
>
>    


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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year by 
Chelsea Green Publishing.