Free-Range Chicken Gardens

Many gardeners fear chickens will peck away at their landscape and chicken lovers often shy away from gardening for the same reason. But a beautiful chicken-friendly garden is truly within reach and award-winning garden designer Jessi Bloom proves it with Free-Range Chicken Gardens. A well-designed chicken garden offers chickens a healthy habitat and organic diet. The chickens in turn fertilise and aerate the soil and act as natural pest control. In this win-win scenario, the gardener reaps the additional pleasures of farm-fresh eggs, a beautiful, healthy garden and a uniquely picturesque panorama. With useful information on introducing chickens to a garden, gardening around chickens, strategies to protect precious plants and design elements that encourage healthy play for the chickens in the garden, here is everything a chicken-loving gardener needs to know.