Adding chickens to the garden can be difficult - but using them to help you garden (without actually letting them loose in the green beans) is easier than you may think!

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Gabe Brown's 5 principles of Regenerative Agriculture are:

1. Armor on the soil surface.
2. Least amount of chemical and physical disturbance possible.
3. Diversity of plants and animals, including insects.
4. Living roots in the soil as long as possible throughout the year.
5. Animals integrated into the system.

Point #5 can be tough for backyard gardeners to imagine. Are we supposed to put cows in our gardens? Or goats? Or chickens?

In my Grocery Row Gardens I've had great success inviting in wild nature by planting a wide range of plants in a permaculture garden system. We don't spray pesticides, so the insects and birds and toads stay happy. But beyond that, we're putting chickens in the garden indirectly by harvesting weeds and spent vegetables and taking them to the chickens to let them be turned into compost, which we then harvest and feed back to the gardens. It's a beautiful system and allows us the benefits of chickens in the garden without the attendant destruction.