Gardening. One of the easiest ways to make a chicken coop environmentally friendly is to combine it with a vegetable garden. Chickens produce high-quality, nitrogen-rich, nontoxic, free fertilizer, so ...

My mornings started with a gentle clucking as the chickens roused themselves from the dusty loft of their coop stationed in my backyard. It was bizarre, but sweet. I never saw myself as a farm-girl ...