I SO hope plenty of more people give you even more good tips on what you describe in your post starting with Let's start over here.
I feel the same way and garden the same way. The difference between us is that I've been gardening that way for 30+ years. The bad thing is though, that I have a horrible fire ant infestation and nothing short of "non organic" chemicals will get rid of any of them. They have no natural predators and there is no "natural" way to run them off. Yes, I know DE is supposed to do the trick but they just walk through it and laugh at me. These are Texas fire ants
Anyhow, I have nothing of value to add as far as raising chickens, just want to encourage those to do to post!
I feel the same way and garden the same way. The difference between us is that I've been gardening that way for 30+ years. The bad thing is though, that I have a horrible fire ant infestation and nothing short of "non organic" chemicals will get rid of any of them. They have no natural predators and there is no "natural" way to run them off. Yes, I know DE is supposed to do the trick but they just walk through it and laugh at me. These are Texas fire ants
Anyhow, I have nothing of value to add as far as raising chickens, just want to encourage those to do to post!