The Backyard Egg Farmer
Trathen Heckman has turned his 6,200-square-foot lot in suburban Petaluma into an educational model for how to grow your own food. The bounty ranges from 500 to 1,000 pounds a year, and he uses less water than a lawn would take. Heckman’s small flock of backyard chickens, housed in a recycled chicken coop and automatically […]
