What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by

Lisa Steele, the founder of Fresh Eggs Daily, the author of Gardening with Chickens

and in this week we have been taking a journey through

that book, Gardening with Chickens, and just learning so much about different things that your

chickens can do for you in the garden and as well as what you can do for

them in the garden and we are kind of revisiting that topic in today's

episode we're talking about some creative gardens for chicken keepers starting

off with something that I think is really cool it's

things that you can add to the nesting box Lisa right yes so again early in my chicken keeping I did a lot of research and reading and, you know, like you, I didn't, I mean, well, like anybody, you first start out, you don't have them, so you don't know anything about them and you start learning as much as you can and one thing

that I read that was interesting is that wild birds will line their nests with

flowers and weeds and herbs and all kinds of things and the thought was by scientists

that the mother bird realized that all of these things had

benefits for the baby birds.

So I thought well the same thing then would apply to

chickens. So I started adding herbs to their nesting boxes, growing them fresh or

using dried in the winter and picking herbs that specifically had

properties that would be beneficial. For example, you don't want mice in your chicken

coop obviously, you know, they will eat things and whatever so mint is

supposed to repel mice so toss a bunch of mint in your coop. In your nesting boxes, mint plants around your coop.

As you know, mint grows like crazy. You know, so if you grow some, you have way more than you need.

But anything to try to deter the mice.

Plus it smells really good.

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