Gardening with Chickens - by Lisa Steele (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>There's no need to choose between chicken keeping and gardening! This book includes a variety of strategies, garden designs, and tips for integrating two popular hobbies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Welcome to a world where chickens and gardens coexist!</b></p><p>Join Lisa Steele, chicken-keeper extraordinaire and founder of Fresh Eggs Daily, on a unique journey through the garden. Start by planning your garden and learning strategies and tips for keeping your plants safe while they grow. Plant with purpose, choosing from a dozen plans for theme gardens such as Orange Egg Yolks or Nesting Box Herbs. Or choose a design that's filled with edibles - sharing the bounty with your family and your feathered friends. Then comes the fun part: enjoy the harvest, even let the chickens graze!</p><p>Lisa's friendly writing, together with inspirational photos and illustrations, will have you rolling up your sleeves and reaching for your gardening tools. Lisa also covers a range of topics just for chicken-keepers, including: </p><p>- Chickens and composting</p><p>- Using chickens to aerate and till</p><p>- Coop window boxes</p><p>- Plants to avoid when you have chickens</p><p>- Lists of the most valuable crops and herbs</p><p>- Advice on how to harvest and use many of the plants</p><p>- And much more!</p><p>Whether you're an experienced chicken keeper, master gardener, or just getting into these two wonderful hobbies, <i>Gardening with Chickens</i> is an indispensable guide for a harmonious homestead.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"But can a garden--especially a tempting vegetable garden--peacefully coexist with hungry, inquisitive chickens, with their potential to eat tender seedlings, and shred plants with their scratching? It's a smart subject for a book, and the answer, says <i>Gardening With Chickens</i> author Lisa Steele, is that they can not only coexist, but each can benefit the other." <b>- GardenSmartTV</b><br><br>"If you're looking for a great guide on raising chickens in your garden, I suggest getting Steele's book." --<i><b>Community Table/Parade.com</b></i><br><br>"If you've enjoyed Lisa's popular blog, you'll definitely love this book, which is written in the same encouraging, confident, and often humorous voice. Beautifully photographed and filled with eye-catching illustrations, this will become an instant classic..."--<b>Niki Jabbour, author of Groundbreaking Food Gardens and The Year Round Vegetable Gardener</b><br><br>"Lisa has found that perfect balance we all strive for--living symbiotically with the land around her. This book is a beautiful roadmap for how we can all have a piece of that in our lives, no matter where we live."--<b>Georgia Pellegrini, chef, TV personality, and author of Modern Pioneering, Girl Hunter, and Food Heroes</b><br><br>"Lisa's writings have been my go-to chicken resource. Gardening with Chickens taught me new ways to garden as I continue my chicken-keeping journey. A must read!"--<b>Helen Yoest, author of Gardening with Confidence</b><br><br>"Overall, "Gardening with Chickens" is an excellent how-to vegetable gardening book, woven throughout with information on chickens, as if they were simply another standard option in food growing, just like raised beds."--<i><b>Phoenixvillenews.com</b></i><br><br>"Raising Backyard Ducks" episode with Lisa Steele--<b>Living Homegrown Podcast</b>, <i><b>Living Homegrown Podcast</b></i><br><br>"This is a must read for any gardener considering chickens or chicken keeper considering a garden...there is so much gold in this book."--<b>Sara Bendrick, Landscape contractor/designer and national TV host</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Lisa Steele</b> is a fifth-generation chicken keeper and creator of Fresh Eggs Daily, the go-to online resource for poultry-keeping advice, which has been named one of <i>Better Homes & Gardens</i> Top Ten Gardening Blogs. Lisa has amassed an audience of nearly one million from all over the globe, who look to her for tips on raising backyard chickens naturally, do-it-yourself ideas, and coop-to-kitchen recipes. <p/> Dubbed "queen of the coop" by the media, Lisa and her work have been recognized by many national media outlets, including the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>USA Today</i>, <i>Country Woman</i>, <i>Parade</i>, and others. As a television and radio personality, Lisa has appeared on the Hallmark Channel's <i>Home & Family</i>, <i>Martha Knows Best </i>on HGTV, <i>P. Allen Smith's Garden Home</i>, and NPR's <i>Maine Calling. </i>She has<i> </i>hosted the New England regional Emmy-nominated television show<i> Welcome to My Farm </i>for two seasons. <p/> Lisa's first book was recommended for summer reading on <i>The View</i> in 2018, and her popular books have sold more than 125,000 copies. Lisa lives in the woods of Maine with her husband, their corgi, barn cat, and her "girls"--a mixed flock of about thirty chickens, ducks, and geese.</p></p>
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