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Welcome to a world where chickens and gardens coexist!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!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:- Chickens and composting- Using chickens to aerate and till- Coop window boxes- Plants to avoid when you have chickens- Lists of the most valuable crops and herbs- Advice on how to harvest and use many of the plants- And much more!Whether you're an experienced chicken keeper, master gardener, or just getting into these two wonderful hobbies, Gardening with Chickens is an indispensable guide for a harmonious homestead.
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LISA STEELE | Fresh Eggs Daily®With more than 135,000 copies of her books in print, Lisa Steele is a 5th generation chicken keeper extraordinaire and darling of the backyard chicken keeping community dubbed "Queen of the Coop" by the media. The Maine Master Gardener, "coop to kitchen" cook and creative mind behind the Better Homes & Gardens award-winning blog Fresh Eggs Daily® has been contributing her unique ideas and sharing sage natural chicken keeping advice for more than a decade.Engaging nearly a million fans worldwide with her simple, practical approach, Lisa is one of the most influential - and recognized - faces in the backyard chicken keeping community and the go-to girl for advice and tips for raising happy, healthy backyard flocks.Lisa has been featured in the Farmers Almanac, Wall Street Journal, Country Living, Country Woman and American Farmhouse Style magazines and on Dr. Oz, The View, HGTV's Martha Knows Best, the Hallmark Home & Family Show, NPR's Here & Now and Maine Calling, P. Allen Smith's Garden Style, Great Day Houston and Good Day Sacramento among others. Lisa is also host and co-producer of the Telly award-winning, Boston/New England regional Emmy-nominated television show "Welcome to my Farm" which will air on public television nationwide beginning in April 2022.When not in front of (or behind) the camera, writing, traveling, tending to her flock, gardens and home, or enjoying all that Maine has to offer with her husband, Lisa can be found cooking and baking using fresh produce from the garden and fresh eggs from her coop on the small New England farm she shares with her husband, their corgi and tuxedo cat plus a flock of chickens, ducks, and geese. She loves pretty things, good coffee, classical music and snow - especially at Christmas time.Visit her website at Fresheggsdaily.comBlog | Fresheggsdaily.blogFacebook | Facebook.com/FreshEggsDailyInstagram Twitter | @freshegggsdailyEmail to Lisa@fresheggsdaily.com
