With step-by-step instructions for creating a beautiful and functional space for keeping chickens, Chicken Gardens covers everything a gardener will need to know -- from the basics of raising chickens to acclimatizing the birds to the garden, to how to create the perfect chicken-friendly garden design and build innovative coops. Important tips include attractive and effective fencing options to keep the chickens contained and guidance for choosing the best plants for gardeners and their birds. For everyone who has been smitten with chicken love, this indispensable guide is a must-have for how to garden with, for, and around chickens.
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Advice on the whole is practical, sensible and enthusiastic, the layout clear and the photos seductive ... I endorse everything Jessi Bloom has to say on the subject and recommend this book to all who have a poultry shelf in their library and a flock of hens in their gardens. --Francine Raymond, The English Garden
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Jessica Bloom is an award-winning landscape designer who has her own landscape design firm, N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Landscapes.
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By C. Atkinson
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I have been waiting for such a long time for this book to come out & i wasn't disappointed. Lovely book with lots of photos & ideas. There are case studies in each section about a particular chicken owners garden. It has re-ignited my excitment about owning chickens. It has given me lots of ideas to implement in my garden & can't wait for some nice weather to get started.
It lists plants that are suitable in a chicken garden & those which aren't. Plants which your chickens will love to eat & those they won't. How to protect your seedlings from rampaging chickens on the hunt for bugs. There is lots of advice about how to use your chickens skills to benefit your garden (poop & eating bugs!)
There is lots of information about coops, runs & chicken tractors to move around the garden (which i plan on constructing so that my girls can roam on the grass in the sunshine but the poo is contained & the plants don't get destroyed.)
It also covers chicken health & looking after your chickens.
I can highly recommend this book to both newbies who are thinking of getting some chickens & to those like myself who have had chickens for a bit but need some ideas. You can definately have a nice garden & chickens if you do some basic planning.
The book has lovely thick paper too! A pleasure to read cover to cover or just dip in & out.
It lists plants that are suitable in a chicken garden & those which aren't. Plants which your chickens will love to eat & those they won't. How to protect your seedlings from rampaging chickens on the hunt for bugs. There is lots of advice about how to use your chickens skills to benefit your garden (poop & eating bugs!)
There is lots of information about coops, runs & chicken tractors to move around the garden (which i plan on constructing so that my girls can roam on the grass in the sunshine but the poo is contained & the plants don't get destroyed.)
It also covers chicken health & looking after your chickens.
I can highly recommend this book to both newbies who are thinking of getting some chickens & to those like myself who have had chickens for a bit but need some ideas. You can definately have a nice garden & chickens if you do some basic planning.
The book has lovely thick paper too! A pleasure to read cover to cover or just dip in & out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I loved this book. I hope to be getting some ex-battery chickens in the next few months and as we have recently moved house, I was looking for new ideas and inspiration and this book has not disappointed! The images throughout are beautiful and ideas for whatever your space and budget - you can be as elaborate as you like! I also love that this book is also an appraisal for keeping chickens and how they make such wonderful pets and that they are so much more than just egg makers. I can't wait to keep chickens again as I really miss their antics about the garden and house!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By tikijoon
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I also wish I had had this book when I first started keeping hens 4 years ago, as my first 2 totally trashed my garden! Luckily, I was so in love with chicken keeping by then, I persevered, but this book would have made life so much easier. It is packed full of tips and advice and lots of inspiration. I have just moved house to a bigger garden, so shall be putting lots of this charming little book into practice. I like especially how it shows real owners' gardens and shares their experiences. The sections on robust and chicken-friendly plants are also excellent. Even though it is an American publicaton, nearly all of the plants are ones available in th UK, so please don't let that put you off.
I would recommend this to anyone who keeps, or is thinking of keeping, backyard hens. You can read it cover to cover, or dip in and out. Best book I've bought relating to my hobby.
I would recommend this to anyone who keeps, or is thinking of keeping, backyard hens. You can read it cover to cover, or dip in and out. Best book I've bought relating to my hobby.
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Free range chicken gardens.
I was disappointed with this book. It was very American in its approach.
Having said that the pictures were good with one or two unusual ideas.
Having said that the pictures were good with one or two unusual ideas.
Published 3 months ago by Margaret
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