Chicken Coops And The Victory Egg Garden

urban chickens Richmond Chicken Coops and The Victory Egg Garden
Bringing Back The Victory Garden
In Your Back Yard

Building Plans, Chicken Houses, and Raised Beds

The Victory Gardens of WWI and WWII were the result of duty felt by the free world to help their families and their nations by becoming more self-sufficient. During those challenging times, even the smallest parcels of land were devoted to providing as much food as possible. Today, we are once again seeing a desire for a lifestyle marked by a greater sense of self-sufficiency. Food security, resource conservation, buying local, and knowing where food comes from are all becoming important goals of the 21st century.

In the spirit of the Victory Gardens of yesterday, the Victory Egg Garden is designed for today’s suburban backyard. Using raised bed, square foot, successive-planting gardening, the Victory Egg Garden can help even a beginning farmer get up to 80% yield increases per square foot while working, watering, weeding, and fertilizing less than traditional gardening. In addition, our Victory Egg Garden harnesses the power of happy chickens to fertilize one raised bed at a time, automatically turn your compost pile, and produce up to three eggs a day for your family. All of this fueled by your table scraps, grain, and tender, loving care.

Among the other countless benefits of the Victory Egg Garden, we can include:

Efficiency as you reduce miles, fuel, waste, and energy dependence
Better Health as you grow nutritious, natural food for yourself and your family
Education of your little ones (and maybe even you), as they learn that food comes out of the ground just for them and they helped make it happen!
Community that is built as you, your family, and your neighbors pick your own fresh vegetables and produce that taste better than anything you could get from the store.
Entertainment as you watch your favorite pet chickens scratch happily in the dirt for just the right, juicy morsel and as you listen to your hens proudly proclaim their contribution of an egg in their nest.
Exercise from a hobby that is both enjoyable and productive.
Assurance that you know what went into your food and where it came from.
Satisfaction in knowing that you are reducing your carbon footprint in more significant ways than your neighbors ever dreamed.

WHY RAISED BEDS?

Raised beds allow early warming of soil in the spring, better water drainage for plants, easier bending for the gardener, and easy ways to organize planting spaces into square foot sections. Because soil isn’t packed from walking on it or working with mechanical equipment, it absorbs and retains water more effectively and makes it easier to collect and discard weeds.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The square foot method of gardening, developed by Mel Bartholomew, allows you to have “an easy, no-work, foolproof, continual-harvest garden method that would work in a small space for beginners and experts alike.” (Square Foot Gardening, Mel Batholomew, p. 8). By combining this gardening method with Joel Salatin’s free range chicken concept, you can fertilize the garden, composting waste, eating pests and gain the output of one to two dozen eggs a week. Each raised bed is a duplicate of the others. We recommend a minimum of three raised beds, twenty feet long. An attractive, small structure houses a maximum of four hens with an attached run that perfectly fits atop one raised bed at a time. By rotating the house and run over the various raised beds, the chickens fertilize, compost, and prepare the soil for your next successive planting. You can even add a movable greenhouse to a section of raised bed to get an early start on spring or extend your salad crops into the winter. All this can be accomplished in a small amount of space that is kept organized and attractive in your back yard.

GET STARTED TODAY!

The Lansing family can work with you to design the best Victory Egg Garden for your experience and location or tell us what you want. We will build, deliver, and even install it for you. Some of the components of our unitized system include:

New England style 3’x3’ chicken house of your color choice, with nest box, roost, doors, water and feed containers.
A 3’ tall chicken run custom designed for the raised bed length of your choice.
Raised beds made of 2”x6” copper sulfate treated boards ranging in unit variable lengths of 8’, 10’, and 12’.
Trellis to support climbing plants.
Easily movable double wall greenhouse, 8’ in length, that sets atop a section of your raised bed.
Brown laying hens of medium to large breeds.
Book, DVDs, and plans that will walk you through the entire process from seeds and chicks to eating your own vegetables, herbs, and eggs from your back yard.

· Also available are the building plans for the Victory Egg Garden for the do it yourself builders.

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PRICING

-- BUILDING PLANS FOR COMPLETE SET: $50

-- NEW ENGLAND SALTBOX STYLE CHICKEN HOUSE (assembled and painted): $525

-- 4'X3' NEW ENGLAND SALTBOX STYLE CHICKEN HOUSE (assembled and painted): $575

-- 3'X3' SHED STYLE CHICKEN HOUSE (assembled and painted): $475

-- 4'X3' SHED STYLE CHICKEN HOUSE (assembled and painted): $525

-- 4'X16' CHICKEN RUN ON RAISED BED: $195

-- 4'X16' RAISED BED (COPPER SULFATE TREATED): $115

-- 4'X8' RAISED BED: $75