What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we have a

really cool week of episodes with Ann Quo of Real Hens of O.C. on

Instagram which is actually how we first met.

And she's also the upcoming author of the Beginners Guide to Raising Chickens

How to Raise a Happy Backyard Floc. Now, I love having guests on that are doing something

that I just cannot do in my own space. I'm living in an area right now

regulations-wise and space-wise where it's really hard for me to have

backyard chickens so I can live vicariously through Ann and bring her on the

podcast so this week what we're going to talk about is of course raising

chickens integrating them with a garden and some permaculture techniques, as well as we're

going to do some rapid-fire answering of a lot of your backyard chicken questions that you guys

sent in to Anne and myself on Instagram.

So, Anne, thanks for coming on the podcast.

Super cool.

Thanks for having me.

It's pretty exciting.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm really amped.

And so I figured what we would do is just start off with your situation.

Could you just tell us a little bit about what you're doing with chickens on your homestead.

I'm overrun with chickens on my homestead right now.

Become the local crazy chicken lady.

But I just, we have them for eggs for entertainment they help in the

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