- $50 gift card for chicken feed or supplies from McMurray Hatchery
- One chicken coop plan from The Garden Coop (a $20 value)
- 1 lb. of organic chicken forage blend and seeds for chicken-friendly plants from Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply (a $20 value)
- A copy of Free-Range Chicken Gardens
Click here to go to the Timber Press website to enter. But hurry, it ends on February 17, which is this Friday.
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| Writer and free-range chicken guru Jessi Bloom, just before her talk at last Friday's NWFGS |
Free-Range Chicken Gardens was written by Jessi Bloom, who did a two-part talk at the recent Northwest Flower and Garden Show. I attended the first half of the talk last Friday, and she was a very good speaker. I also met Jessi Bloom briefly last summer at the Garden Blogger's Fling here in Seattle.
Timber Press has sent me a copy of the book to review, which I'll do in a future post. I'm looking forward to reading it because according to all the blurbs about it, the book deals with more than just how to care for chickens (there are actually plenty of other books out there that do that). It also covers how to integrate chickens into your garden, which is one aspect of chicken keeping that has worried me. How can you create a garden that they will work well with and not destroy?
(Some of my readers may know that I have been challenged by my husband to lose 40 pounds before he will let me get chickens. I'm still working on it, but it's slow going. I haven't lost heart though. I had a busy, crazy fall, and the holidays were rather bumpy, but I think I'm back on track now.)
Anyhow, if you're interested in keeping chickens, go to the website and enter the contest!