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I learned a long time ago that when I plant my garden every year I need to plant what we will eat, not just what I want to grow. It sounds so logical, but all those pretty plants and seed packets tend to suck me in and next thing I know I have things planted that look great and grow great but I just can't use them all! 

Let me explain....kohlrabi. Yes, it actually is good, but we cant eat more then a little bit so when I buy a pack of 4 seedlings it is way too many. Especially since they are all the same age, so they are all ready for harvest at the same time. It's just too much. Same with pumpkins, hot peppers and a few other things. 

Some of these things I pass on to the chickens which is great for cutting the feed bill. I talk about that in the post Free Feed: Garden Rejects. I also grow many plants just for the chickens. Some of it we don't use like Amaranth (though we could eat the leaves). Others are just an overabundance of something we like. Here are a list of easy to grow, high producing crops that I grow just for the chickens...
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