City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Creators, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers
City Chicks is THE book that tells you how to put your chickens to work by employing their skill sets in your yard and garden. Urban agriculture and backyard poultry is on the rise, and City Chicks shows how to enable local food supply by keeping family flocks of chickens as garden helpers, compost creators, bio-recyclers, and local food suppliers. Learn how to save tax payer dollars by employing chickens as clucking civil service workers who divert biomass from the trash collection and convert that biomass into garden soil to grow food in.
How-to detail throughout all 460 pages on keeping, employing, growing food for, and enjoying backyard poultry. Over 120 drawings, photos and tables gives you visual information and key insights.
Learn how chickens are truly the enablers of local agriculture and the mascot of the local food movement. A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens. Across America municipalities are allowing, and even encouraging, residents to keep laying hens within city limits.
Learn how you can:
• Develop your own Chicken Have-More Plan.
• Have fresh, heart-healthy eggs, daily from your backyard home flock.
• Employ your chicken’s “skill sets” as garden workers, organic pesticiders, herbiciders, fertilizers, compost creators and top soil enhancers.
• Become a chicken whisperer.
• Save millions of tax payer dollars by using chickens to divert food and yard waste from landfills and waste management systems.
• Be a Primary Poultry Health Care Practitioner to save on vet bills. The Poultry’s Pharmacy shows you how to make and use effective, inexpensive home treatments.
• Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within your town or city.
• Avoid roosters and why you don’t want them.
• Do much, much more with chickens than you ever thought possible, including outrageous chicken tricks.
• Understand that chickens can be truly "Pets with Benefits"!
Learn how others:
• Have built urban chicken tractors, hen huts, condos and chicken chateaus to blend in with neighborhood landscape and architecture.
• Join in urban eco-agri-tourism with annual coop & garden home tours for fund raising.
• Start or join local poultry clubs.
• Keep small flocks to help preserve endangered breeds of chickens. • Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within their town’s limits.
By the co-author of Chicken Tractor, Backyard Market Gardening, Day Range Poultry. Co-Host of the Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles Talk Show.
City Chicks is a revolutionary way of keeping and using chickens by thinking “outside the coop” and “inside the gardens”. Over 100 photos, drawings, and tables give visual clarity. The imaginative and entertaining style of writing is combined with hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete and authoritative books on micro-flock management.
"The chicken is still having her moment as the mascot and darling of the always-cresting locavore food movement. Many people are struggling to learn how, exactly, to care for her. Enter City Chicks" —Penelope Green, New York Times, September 2009
“City Chicks is a revelation! "It’s time that someone expertly connected gardening to raising and keeping hens. The two practices go hand in hand. This book is filled with excellent advice so that everyone can confidently practice good earth stewardship, not to mention have a prize garden!” — Michael C. Metallo, President National Gardening Association
City Chicks might well become ‘The’ reference bible for the burgeoning local food movement.“ — Cathy Taibbi, Examiner.com
“The best solutions today are integrated solutions. City Chicks show how to successfully produce protein along with your garden vegetables while managing waste and increasing soil fertility…a 3-for-1 benefit! — Will Raap Founder, Gardener’s Supply
“Far more than just another book on chickens, City Chicks opens the door to a whole new world of poultry possibilities. Keeping small flocks is good for gardens, municipalities, education, and the local food movement. City Chicks covers a lot of ground, and is a comprehensive information source.“ — Richard Freudenberger, BackHome Magazine Publisher & Chicken Owner
“The focus is on how chickens fit in with so many other common needs and concerns of our century. This is a book for our times.” —JD Belanger, Editor Emeritus Backyard Poultry
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How-to detail throughout all 460 pages on keeping, employing, growing food for, and enjoying backyard poultry. Over 120 drawings, photos and tables gives you visual information and key insights.
Learn how chickens are truly the enablers of local agriculture and the mascot of the local food movement. A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens. Across America municipalities are allowing, and even encouraging, residents to keep laying hens within city limits.
Learn how you can:
• Develop your own Chicken Have-More Plan.
• Have fresh, heart-healthy eggs, daily from your backyard home flock.
• Employ your chicken’s “skill sets” as garden workers, organic pesticiders, herbiciders, fertilizers, compost creators and top soil enhancers.
• Become a chicken whisperer.
• Save millions of tax payer dollars by using chickens to divert food and yard waste from landfills and waste management systems.
• Be a Primary Poultry Health Care Practitioner to save on vet bills. The Poultry’s Pharmacy shows you how to make and use effective, inexpensive home treatments.
• Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within your town or city.
• Avoid roosters and why you don’t want them.
• Do much, much more with chickens than you ever thought possible, including outrageous chicken tricks.
• Understand that chickens can be truly "Pets with Benefits"!
Learn how others:
• Have built urban chicken tractors, hen huts, condos and chicken chateaus to blend in with neighborhood landscape and architecture.
• Join in urban eco-agri-tourism with annual coop & garden home tours for fund raising.
• Start or join local poultry clubs.
• Keep small flocks to help preserve endangered breeds of chickens. • Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within their town’s limits.
By the co-author of Chicken Tractor, Backyard Market Gardening, Day Range Poultry. Co-Host of the Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles Talk Show.
City Chicks is a revolutionary way of keeping and using chickens by thinking “outside the coop” and “inside the gardens”. Over 100 photos, drawings, and tables give visual clarity. The imaginative and entertaining style of writing is combined with hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete and authoritative books on micro-flock management.
"The chicken is still having her moment as the mascot and darling of the always-cresting locavore food movement. Many people are struggling to learn how, exactly, to care for her. Enter City Chicks" —Penelope Green, New York Times, September 2009
“City Chicks is a revelation! "It’s time that someone expertly connected gardening to raising and keeping hens. The two practices go hand in hand. This book is filled with excellent advice so that everyone can confidently practice good earth stewardship, not to mention have a prize garden!” — Michael C. Metallo, President National Gardening Association
City Chicks might well become ‘The’ reference bible for the burgeoning local food movement.“ — Cathy Taibbi, Examiner.com
“The best solutions today are integrated solutions. City Chicks show how to successfully produce protein along with your garden vegetables while managing waste and increasing soil fertility…a 3-for-1 benefit! — Will Raap Founder, Gardener’s Supply
“Far more than just another book on chickens, City Chicks opens the door to a whole new world of poultry possibilities. Keeping small flocks is good for gardens, municipalities, education, and the local food movement. City Chicks covers a lot of ground, and is a comprehensive information source.“ — Richard Freudenberger, BackHome Magazine Publisher & Chicken Owner
“The focus is on how chickens fit in with so many other common needs and concerns of our century. This is a book for our times.” —JD Belanger, Editor Emeritus Backyard Poultry
City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Creators, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers
City Chicks is THE book that tells you how to put your chickens to work by employing their skill sets in your yard and garden. Urban agriculture and backyard poultry is on the rise, and City Chicks shows how to enable local food supply by keeping family flocks of chickens as garden helpers, compost creators, bio-recyclers, and local food suppliers. Learn how to save tax payer dollars by employing chickens as clucking civil service workers who divert biomass from the trash collection and convert that biomass into garden soil to grow food in.
How-to detail throughout all 460 pages on keeping, employing, growing food for, and enjoying backyard poultry. Over 120 drawings, photos and tables gives you visual information and key insights.
Learn how chickens are truly the enablers of local agriculture and the mascot of the local food movement. A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens. Across America municipalities are allowing, and even encouraging, residents to keep laying hens within city limits.
Learn how you can:
• Develop your own Chicken Have-More Plan.
• Have fresh, heart-healthy eggs, daily from your backyard home flock.
• Employ your chicken’s “skill sets” as garden workers, organic pesticiders, herbiciders, fertilizers, compost creators and top soil enhancers.
• Become a chicken whisperer.
• Save millions of tax payer dollars by using chickens to divert food and yard waste from landfills and waste management systems.
• Be a Primary Poultry Health Care Practitioner to save on vet bills. The Poultry’s Pharmacy shows you how to make and use effective, inexpensive home treatments.
• Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within your town or city.
• Avoid roosters and why you don’t want them.
• Do much, much more with chickens than you ever thought possible, including outrageous chicken tricks.
• Understand that chickens can be truly "Pets with Benefits"!
Learn how others:
• Have built urban chicken tractors, hen huts, condos and chicken chateaus to blend in with neighborhood landscape and architecture.
• Join in urban eco-agri-tourism with annual coop & garden home tours for fund raising.
• Start or join local poultry clubs.
• Keep small flocks to help preserve endangered breeds of chickens. • Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within their town’s limits.
By the co-author of Chicken Tractor, Backyard Market Gardening, Day Range Poultry. Co-Host of the Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles Talk Show.
City Chicks is a revolutionary way of keeping and using chickens by thinking “outside the coop” and “inside the gardens”. Over 100 photos, drawings, and tables give visual clarity. The imaginative and entertaining style of writing is combined with hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete and authoritative books on micro-flock management.
"The chicken is still having her moment as the mascot and darling of the always-cresting locavore food movement. Many people are struggling to learn how, exactly, to care for her. Enter City Chicks" —Penelope Green, New York Times, September 2009
“City Chicks is a revelation! "It’s time that someone expertly connected gardening to raising and keeping hens. The two practices go hand in hand. This book is filled with excellent advice so that everyone can confidently practice good earth stewardship, not to mention have a prize garden!” — Michael C. Metallo, President National Gardening Association
City Chicks might well become ‘The’ reference bible for the burgeoning local food movement.“ — Cathy Taibbi, Examiner.com
“The best solutions today are integrated solutions. City Chicks show how to successfully produce protein along with your garden vegetables while managing waste and increasing soil fertility…a 3-for-1 benefit! — Will Raap Founder, Gardener’s Supply
“Far more than just another book on chickens, City Chicks opens the door to a whole new world of poultry possibilities. Keeping small flocks is good for gardens, municipalities, education, and the local food movement. City Chicks covers a lot of ground, and is a comprehensive information source.“ — Richard Freudenberger, BackHome Magazine Publisher & Chicken Owner
“The focus is on how chickens fit in with so many other common needs and concerns of our century. This is a book for our times.” —JD Belanger, Editor Emeritus Backyard Poultry
How-to detail throughout all 460 pages on keeping, employing, growing food for, and enjoying backyard poultry. Over 120 drawings, photos and tables gives you visual information and key insights.
Learn how chickens are truly the enablers of local agriculture and the mascot of the local food movement. A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens. Across America municipalities are allowing, and even encouraging, residents to keep laying hens within city limits.
Learn how you can:
• Develop your own Chicken Have-More Plan.
• Have fresh, heart-healthy eggs, daily from your backyard home flock.
• Employ your chicken’s “skill sets” as garden workers, organic pesticiders, herbiciders, fertilizers, compost creators and top soil enhancers.
• Become a chicken whisperer.
• Save millions of tax payer dollars by using chickens to divert food and yard waste from landfills and waste management systems.
• Be a Primary Poultry Health Care Practitioner to save on vet bills. The Poultry’s Pharmacy shows you how to make and use effective, inexpensive home treatments.
• Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within your town or city.
• Avoid roosters and why you don’t want them.
• Do much, much more with chickens than you ever thought possible, including outrageous chicken tricks.
• Understand that chickens can be truly "Pets with Benefits"!
Learn how others:
• Have built urban chicken tractors, hen huts, condos and chicken chateaus to blend in with neighborhood landscape and architecture.
• Join in urban eco-agri-tourism with annual coop & garden home tours for fund raising.
• Start or join local poultry clubs.
• Keep small flocks to help preserve endangered breeds of chickens. • Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within their town’s limits.
By the co-author of Chicken Tractor, Backyard Market Gardening, Day Range Poultry. Co-Host of the Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles Talk Show.
City Chicks is a revolutionary way of keeping and using chickens by thinking “outside the coop” and “inside the gardens”. Over 100 photos, drawings, and tables give visual clarity. The imaginative and entertaining style of writing is combined with hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete and authoritative books on micro-flock management.
"The chicken is still having her moment as the mascot and darling of the always-cresting locavore food movement. Many people are struggling to learn how, exactly, to care for her. Enter City Chicks" —Penelope Green, New York Times, September 2009
“City Chicks is a revelation! "It’s time that someone expertly connected gardening to raising and keeping hens. The two practices go hand in hand. This book is filled with excellent advice so that everyone can confidently practice good earth stewardship, not to mention have a prize garden!” — Michael C. Metallo, President National Gardening Association
City Chicks might well become ‘The’ reference bible for the burgeoning local food movement.“ — Cathy Taibbi, Examiner.com
“The best solutions today are integrated solutions. City Chicks show how to successfully produce protein along with your garden vegetables while managing waste and increasing soil fertility…a 3-for-1 benefit! — Will Raap Founder, Gardener’s Supply
“Far more than just another book on chickens, City Chicks opens the door to a whole new world of poultry possibilities. Keeping small flocks is good for gardens, municipalities, education, and the local food movement. City Chicks covers a lot of ground, and is a comprehensive information source.“ — Richard Freudenberger, BackHome Magazine Publisher & Chicken Owner
“The focus is on how chickens fit in with so many other common needs and concerns of our century. This is a book for our times.” —JD Belanger, Editor Emeritus Backyard Poultry
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| BN ID: | 2940014731454 |
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| Publisher: | GoodEarthPublications.com |
| Publication date: | 03/13/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 464 |
| File size: | 20 MB |
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