Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How To Create A Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard: How To Create A Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard

Presents advice for keeping chickens in the garden, discussing such topics as housing, garden design, landscaping, fencing, plant choices, and predator control. Bloom, a Pacific Northwest-based landscape designer, provides backyard poultry farmers and chicken fanciers with information on creating well planned integrated spaces that take advantage of the multiple benefits that free range chickens can offer gardens. Topics discussed include the benefits of free ranging, design principles for chicken friendly gardens, landscape material for chicken gardens, beneficial plantings, innovative chicken housing, and predator management. Chapters include detailed information on plant species and planting practices and the work is packed with full-color photographs and technical illustrations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Many gardeners fear chickens will peck away at their landscape, and chicken lovers often shy away from gardening for the same reason. But you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too! Fresh eggs aren't the only benefit — chickens can actually help your garden grow and thrive, even as your garden does the same for your chickens. In this essential handbook, award-winning garden designer Jessi Bloom covers everything a gardener needs to know, including chicken-keeping basics, simple garden plans to get you started, tips on attractive fencing options, the best plants and plants to avoid, and step-by-step instructions for getting your chicken garden up and running. For anyone who wants a fabulous garden where colorful chickens happily roam, Free-Range Chicken Gardens is the guide that will bring the dream home to roost.