Articles by FrontPorchIndiana

The Chicken Garden by Mike & Christine One of the greatest benefits to raising chickens is the abundance of fertilizer they so freely provide...

Since we live in Indiana, and the winters here can last half the year, we decided to install insulation. With it, we believe a lot of frozen water...

To give the kids a place to play while we built their permanent run we constructed this lightweight movable run. Once the run construction is...

Construction Begins The first phase of any construction project includes gathering materials. In our case, we also needed to make some repairs to...

During the coop building process and the months following several things came up which we will call "lessons learned." BAD IDEAS 1. Do NOT use...