http://permaculture.org.au/2008/06/26/transforming-your-urban-backyard/ Changing the world one site at a time Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:07:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://permaculture.org.au/2008/06/26/transforming-your-urban-backyard/comment-page-1/#comment-25487 Frank Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:19:03 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=377#comment-25487 Great article. We live on a small block next to the beach and the soil is very sandy and poor quality.Nothing would grow so earleir this year we built a chicken coop and, kept digging in leaf mulch into a sandy patch that we said would become our "garden." It didnt take too long. We used the chicken poo to create compost that was also dug into the garden. Now our poor soil has been transformed from a lifeless patch of dirt to a garden rich with fat worms that the chicken love to scratch for to get their protein to make the eggs!. There is something quite rewarding about knowing you did that yourself. Not quite "Greening the Desert" Geoff Lawton style but good enough for me :) Great article. We live on a small block next to the beach and the soil is very sandy and poor quality.Nothing would grow so earleir this year we built a chicken coop and, kept digging in leaf mulch into a sandy patch that we said would become our “garden.” It didnt take too long. We used the chicken poo to create compost that was also dug into the garden. Now our poor soil has been transformed from a lifeless patch of dirt to a garden rich with fat worms that the chicken love to scratch for to get their protein to make the eggs!. There is something quite rewarding about knowing you did that yourself. Not quite “Greening the Desert” Geoff Lawton style but good enough for me

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