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This is an attempt to document my efforts to grow and eat locally around Melbourne, Derbyshire. My family own a nine acre smallholding on which we grow fruit and vegetables and keep bees, and chickens, but that won't feed us alone, so the idea is to get to know our local produce and to see how easy/hard it is to follow a diet that is local to within 30 miles. The fun part is also trying some new (easy) recipes that use home-grown and local produce. Feel free to comment, send in recipes, and share your experiences of buying and eating locally.

Sunday 28 October 2012

Chicken tractor

Here's a picture of my lovely new Chicken Tractor. People have said to me that chickens can't drive tractors, but they are missing the point! Chicken tractors allow the birds to do the work of cultivators by eating the weeds and manuring as they go. I had this one especially made to my design and it can be moved by one person and it's designed to fit over a four foot vegetable bed. So far it's doing a great job and when the chickens have cleared one area I move it onto the next bit. Soon to be available to order I hope.

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