Why Chickens.

In case you were considering starting your own backyard flock, here's some good reasons to get rolling. Taken from UrbanChickens.com:

Some of the key benefits to our community:

• Chickens can provide healthy, pesticide free eggs
• Reduction of weekly food bills
• Reduction of green house gases through reduction in food transport costs
• Chickens consume kitchen waste, reducing municipal waste problems
• Chickens produce great compost for the garden
• Chickens are a great way to teach kids about food sources, hands-on
• Chickens make great pets, for big kids and little kids alike
• The path to global environmental sustainability begins with local initiatives and urban chickens are one of those initiatives
• Chickens kept in back yards are generally living in much more humane conditions than their battery cage industrial chicken counterparts

Between our worm composting bin, our regular composting bin, and the chickens, we NEVER send any food waste to the garbage collection. I also can't emphasize how damned GOOD the fresh eggs are.

So what are you waiting for?