running ducks

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

welcome to the monthly matinée, a retrospective of the appleturnover long-form films. next up is running ducks.

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 or sheep, transforming overproductions and food-waste into eggs, into compost, and into a new generation of laying ducks, a flock of ducks is just plain happiness in your garden.

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.

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thanks for watching, sharing and supporting!

meet you back here sunday for the weekend letter.

one last thing — if you missed it, you might also like to see the ducks prepare the garden for spring planting: