happy healthy ducks for rich eggs, fresh compost, reduced pests in a regenerative garden or farm

learn to raise, feed and care for healthy, resilient runner ducks. find out what ducks need and see the whole process from brooding day-old ducklings to free-ranging an egg-laying flock, with all the tremendous benefits that ducks bring to a small regenerative food forest, permaculture farm or large organic garden. whether you’ve considered keeping ducks or just adore these happy creatures, it’s delightful to see the whole process from brooding ducklings to managing them in a silvopasture system that could, with the ducks’ help, become more and more closed-loop, increasing our resilience to ecological and economic uncertainty, particularly food and fertiliser security. keeping runner ducks is such a great shift to a more reciprocal vision of how we might live regenerative, relocalised, simplified lives. — even without the ecosystem benefits of adding fertility to the gardens, cleaning the orchard, reducing slugs and pests that trouble everything from trees to veg gardens to milk goats