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Our Local Foods and Chef Sean Brock from McCrady’s Tavern in historic Charleston, SC celebrated the garden this week in an extraordinary way. We hosted “dinner on the porch” as fulfillment of a pretty classy auction item from the coffers of the local fundraiser circuit.
The wonderful meal consisted of vegetables freshly harvested from the damp rows that afternoon, as they were hastily collected in the rain for the evening event.
Guests arrived just as the rain subsided to find the table all set with linens and candles on the screened-in front porch of the cabin that will become our farm store. Mini-lights and citronella lanterns filled the space with a soft welcoming hue of light that said “settle in for a comfortable evening with the chef…”.
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We have 300 chickens on the farm now - they arrived last weekend. We have a chicken tractor for them to live in (see the picture below). The chicken tractor is a chicken house built on a trailer. Our Local Foods would like to acknowledge the incredible design of the chicken tractor by George and Celeste Albers of the “Green Grocer” on Wadmalaw Island (just outside of Charleston, SC). The house has booms sticking out on each side with a shrimp net draped over it that hangs down to the ground. This area is approximately 25′x35′ which is the area the chickens have to run around and feed in. Each day, while the chickens are in the house, the trailer is moved a bit to a new spot, and the chickens are let out to roam around. At night, the chickens go back in their house to roost, and egg laying is also done in the nesting areas. The reason for moving the tractor each day is so there are plenty of new bugs and such for the chickens to find and eat. In a nice symbiotic way, the chickens also dig up the topsoil, add some fertilizer to the soil, and reduce the insect count.
Our Local Foods Chicken Tractor
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