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Just outside the goat shed, a new place to get compost for potting
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New cuttings and repotting site
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Courgettes and cornichons
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Clean as a whistle thanks to the chickens
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Repotting Lunaria Seedlings
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We empty the goat shed once a year - this is the compost a few months later
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Chickens have a great life here!
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The chickens do most of the work cleaning up the compost of course
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The mulching tames behind the shed which was full of brambles before
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Courgettes need sun and these might get some soon
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Get the mulch quick down before the weeds get any higher !
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Mulching with goat straw and hay
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Mulching along the side of the pig park
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Emptying the goat shed for summer
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This is the space I use as a "potting shed"
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Goat compost - rich and clean to use
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Emptying goat shed - the pile gets higher
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I use the bedding directly on the soil as a mulch
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Compost heap gets higher and higher
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Chicken looking for bugs in the compost heap
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chickens looking for bugs in the goat shed
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Compost ingredients
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Marans Chicken with two of her chicks in the compost
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Chickens and chicks helping get the hugelkultur raised bed ready for planting and mulching
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One of our compost piles made with branches, wool, weeds etc makes a hugelkultur pile
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Daggings from our sheep and goats are used for the garden
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The start of another hugelkultur bed
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Compost loo lid up
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Compost toilet at the cabin
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The compost has killed the oak which supports the Wisteria