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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! In this essential handbook, award-winning garden designer Jessi Bloom offers step-by-step instructions for creating a beautiful and functional space and maintaining a happy, healthy flock. Free-Range Chicken Gardens covers everything a gardener needs to know, from the basics of chicken keeping and getting them acclimated to the garden, to how to create the perfect chicken-friendly garden design and build innovative coops.
About the Author
Jessi Bloom is a best selling author, award-winning ecological landscape designer, professional horticulturalist, and certified arborist. She owns N.W. Bloom--EcoLogical Services, known for innovation in permaculture, sustainable landscape design, construction, and land management. Jessi is committed to educating others and now spends much of her time teaching, consulting, and speaking nationwide in addition to designing landscapes. Her latest book "Creating Sanctuary: Sacred Garden Spaces, Plant-Based Medicine, and Daily Practices to Achieve Happiness and Well-Being" (2018) by Timber Press, will be released this fall!
Other books - "Free-Range Chicken Gardens" (2012) has been praised for being informative and inspiring, changing the way people integrate animals into their landscapes. "Practical Permaculture" (2015) has been printed in several languages and is used as the textbook in PDC's around the world.
Her work has appeared nationally in Better Homes and Gardens, Sunset, NY Times, PBS's Growing a Greener World TV, Martha Stewart Living, Mother Earth News and many other large media outlets. Recognition for her work includes awards from the Washington State Department of Ecology, the American Horticultural Society, Pacific Horticulture magazine, Sunset magazine, the Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association, and the Washington Association of Landscape Professionals. She lives north of Seattle with her two sons on her permaculture homestead.
You may also be interested in the author's own Web site, www.nwbloom.com and www.jessibloom.com
