What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we have an awesome

week ahead if you have ever wanted to get started with chickens or just grow and raise chickens in your backyard and incorporate them into the garden.

So we have Lisa Steele on the podcast this week, the founder of Fresh Eggs Daily and the author of the book,

Gardening with Chickens.

So, Lisa, I think this first episode

we're going to be talking about just getting started,

bare bones basics, which is perfect

because for me, I don't have chickens,

and so this would be the point that I would start at.

Exactly and it's really interesting in the last decade or so so many areas are starting

to allow backyard chickens.

A lot of suburban areas, even some cities, I don't know specifically where you are in San Diego,

what the regulations are, but for anyone thinking about it or interested in it

Check with your municipality and just do a little bit of homework first because you might be surprised to find that you can raise chickens even if you're in a area that you definitely would not consider a farm

or rural or anything like that.

So it's nice because it doesn't just have to be the homesteader or the farmer raising chickens.

It can be the soccer mom or the, you know, the chef at the local restaurant who wants fresh eggs

for some of his dishes and they're just kind of you know invading our society which is

really exciting. Yeah yeah I think it's exciting in an amazing way and I know for us

San Diego and California just changed a couple years back the municipality regulation so it's a little bit easier.

I know for me and my space it's still somewhat difficult but I know a ton of people that are in suburban lots in San Diego that have chickens and so I

figured maybe we could kind of start there and how do you have to adjust maybe

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