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Free-Range Chicken Gardens de Jessi Bloom

Free-Range Chicken Gardens

Autor Jessi Bloom
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2011

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."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781604692372
ISBN-10: 1604692375
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 202 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Timber Press (OR)

Descriere

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.

Recenzii

"A fun new book."--Valerie Easton "Plant Talk blog "
"Solves the dilemma of having free-range chickens and a vegetable garden."--Kym Pokorny "The Oregonian "
"Bloom's obvious enthusiasm for good design and for her birds will inspire both novice and experienced chicken owners to create a garden space for hens "and" humans to enjoy."--Genevieve Schmidt "The American Gardener "
"Bloom's obvious enthusiasm for creative design and for her birds will inspire both novice and experienced chicken owners to create a garden space that hens and humans can inhabit harmoniously."--Genevieve Schmidt "American Gardener "
"I've had chickens for four years and I wish that I could have had Jessi Bloom's new book in the beginning."--Willi Galloway "Diggin Food.com "
If your garden fantasies involve chickens, Jessi Bloom, author of FREE-RANGE CHICKEN GARDENS: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard (Timber Press, paper, $19.95), is here to make those dreams come true. Chickens bring out interesting characters. My new heroine is Elizabeth Zumwalt, a chicken whisperer, educator and entrepreneur who blogs about her family's Bantam hens, sells eggs and gives half the proceeds to charity. She pulls a red wagon, topped with a chicken house, when she heads out to educate people about her birds. Elizabeth is 9 years old.
By the time you're done with Bloom's clever book, you'll know almost as much about chickens as Elizabeth does. And maybe more about what chickens like than what your children do. You'll be looking for bug logs and creating dust baths. You'll know that chickens like to have mirrors hanging in their gardens -- but take care with the angle, since they have eyes on the sides of their heads. There is no end to the vanity of a chicken.
"Experienced free-ranging chickens" -- now that's a real sign of the times; do chickens no longer have a tribal memory of roaming? -- will know not to eat toxic berries, but Bloom is an expert guide for the untutored. Somehow, I'm sure that chickens prefer heirloom vegetables to any other variety. And while your flock may break free to cross the road, you'll be relieved to learn that (unless they have an unfortunate encounter with a car) they'll probably be no worse for the wear. Chickens don't sweat.
Bloom genially celebrates geodesic domes and shingled coops with stone chimneys and even clean-lined modernist coops. She also writes about "naughty" chickens: "Chickens are social and hormonal creatures, and when we have them living in ways that are different from how they would live naturally, they are prone to behaviors that can be damaging to themselves or that are simply normal but just catch us off guard." You might have thought she was talking about teenagers, but I now se

"Everything you want to know about gardening with chickens...is here."--Amy Stewart "Garden Rant "
"Exquisitely produced and artfully photographed."--Brigid Gaffikin "San Francisco Chronicle "

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"You can raise backyard chickens and maintain an attractive landscape and garden: Jessi's book explains how in a fun, encouraging, and informing way." --Jo Lamp'l, Growing a Greener World

"If you think your yard is too small, you're too busy, or the neighbors won't like chickens, read this book and think again." --Toby Hemenway author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

It's true, you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too. And fresh eggs are just one of the many benefits--chickens can help your garden grow and thrive. 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 plant 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-Rang Chicken Gardens is the guide that will bring the dream home to roost.

Notă biografică

Jessi Bloom is a best-selling author, award-winning ecological landscape designer, and speaker. She owns N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Services, based in the Pacific Northwest, which is known as an innovator and leader in the field of permaculture, sustainable landscape design, construction, and land management. Her work has been recognized by government agencies and industry organizations and makes headlines in national media. She lives near Seattle with her two sons on their permaculture homestead, which is full of functional gardens and rescue animals.Kate Baldwin is a food and lifestyle photographer in Seattle, Washington, whose work appears frequently in advertisements, magazines, and books, and can be seen at www.katebaldwinphotography.com.