Mother Earth News gave me the opportunity to write the cover article for this month’s magazine topic “Chickens in Organic Pastures.” The article was all about how I manage the balance between perennial and annual plants for livestock grazing and how I use the chickens to help me plant seeds. For now the article is behind a paywall, so only their subscribers get to read it. But for anyone who is interested, I wanted to put the news out there.

For further reading, I covered a lot of the same ground in an article right here on the blog last year: How We Use Chickens as No-Till Seed Planters.

There’s plenty more to be said about pasture raised chickens, as we’re just a week and a half from the hatch dates for the first spring batches. And then after that we’re swamped with chickens and turkeys through November. For now, the family and I are treasuring the relative peace of our last chicken-free week.