Before the chickens and ducks eat us out of house and home I decided to get at least a portion of a row planted! You'd think they didn't have 4 acres to roam as they please with lots of plants and bugs. I've been using a modified trench system for things such as leftovers from making chicken stock that we don't want the flock getting into. There are also spots with leftover crabs and shrimp heads, chicken manure and the offal from processing. We have our regular compost, but this is for the rows that will become the garden. I decided to go ahead and start planting in that one area where I'd been burying. Each spot has the items to be composted, a cardboard box and then about 10" of sand on top. I added another layer of thin, brown paper and some topsoil. 
I didn't have an actual green manure mix on hand so I made a bit of my own with parsley, turnips, soybeans, okra, turnips and radishes. It's all for the chickens and what they don't eat as well as their little butt treasures will just be buried under before the next planting. Of course, they're chickens and they know we have the good stuff so they wouldn't leave me alone. Scratch here. Peck that. Walk there. I might have to do this under the mask of moonlight until I get the fence in place. 'Infrastructure, then plants, then animals' is my husband's motto. I agree with him, but it's hard when the incubator is full of chirping and the kiddie pools are on sale!
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