You probably noticed over the last year that gardening has not been the only trend that has emerged

with the pandemic and people staying at home and doing things at home. You may have guessed by the

title of this podcast episode, and that is Raising Chickens. I have been a chicken keeper,

I guess if you can call it that, for about seven years, I

suppose. My son was in first grade when we got our first flock, and I had only been gardening

for a year at that point because I just thought, all right, now I'm a gardener. What's the next

step? And of course, it's chickens's chickens right I don't really remember the

reasoning behind chickens other than we were just wanting to add to our self-sufficiency

and what we could produce on the homestead and probably it was more that we wanted to get

our own eggs I think that's why a lot of people begin. But as I got more into raising

chickens and we are now on our third flock, to me, as I mentioned in this interview,

eggs are just a bonus. I really use my chickens more for my garden than anything else. But it's not

as easy as you might think to figure out how to best incorporate

your chickens into your garden to make them work for your garden. Because that's why I have them

nowadays, so I want to make sure to use them as best as I can. And for tips on that, I have brought

along a guess that I've been following for a while,

and that's Lisa Steele from Fresh Eggs Daily.

She has been talking about raising chickens, ducks, lots of different subjects on her blog for many

years, and she is the go-to person when it comes to things like this. Now you may recall that we've

already had an episode on how to get started with chickens and we'll put that in the show notes.

That was with Nicole Janetta. And so I'm not going to talk with Lisa today about how to get

started with chickens. This episode is more about how to use chickens in your garden once you already have them.

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