Market Farming

[BBGREGSON AT cs.com]

Hi Andy-
One of the practices we like best is to move a modified chicken tractor into 
one of our rotational zones when the crop is ready to come out---peas for 
example---then put a portable 3' wire fence held up by a t-post every 15' or 
so around that zone.  The chicken tractor was "modified" by cutting a hinged 
door into the side.  Thus it serves as a moveable dormitory where the 
chickens sleep, drink and lay eggs, but they spend their days outside 
cleaning up the crop residue, vines, etc., and scratching around everywhere 
for a week or two, then move on to another similar zone.  It works nicely 
because we lock them in at night, thus can easily drag the tractor with them 
inside to their next work location, move the fence, and then let them out to 
go at it.
Bob and Bonnie Gregson, Island Meadow Farm, Vashon, WA