How Do I Stop My Chickens From Getting Over My Fence?
Got some flighty feathered friends on your hands? You can keep them safe in your backyard by taking a few easy precautions. No more escapees...
Herbs for Hen Health: Coriander
Coriander is a herb that people generally love or hate thanks to it’s incredibly powerful taste and strong fragrance. If you’re a chicken person you...
Herbs for Hen Health: Dill
Dill is one herb you don’t want to skip on growing in your herb garden! This tall wispy herb is best grown annually and while...
Everything You Need To Keep Chickens - Delivered to your door!
If you’re thinking of keeping chickens, or giving your family or partner the gift of a backyard chicken coop, we have everything you need to...
Fabulous Chicken Coops & Gorgeous Gardens
Does your dream garden involve a flock of busy and beautiful chickens? It should! Great gardens begin with fabulous chicken coops. They enrich the soil,...
Spring Chicken Planting Guide
Spring is the perfect time of year to get your hands dirty in the backyard and create an appetising foraging garden for your chooks. Not only will...
How to Keep Your Garden Safe From Chickens and Pest Animals
Any green thumb, from beginner to expert, knows the feeling of accomplishment that comes with growing a fine patch of vegetables or watching your flower...
The Ultimate Guide to Using Electric Poultry Fencing
More and more chicken keepers, from large flock runners to backyard chook ladies, are seeing the benefits of using an electric fence to keep their...
3 Reasons Electric Poultry Fencing is Great For Your Chicken Flock
Electric Poultry Fencing Keeps the Predators Out Using an electric fence to protect chickens while they forage and roost is your best defence against chook...
5 Things to Add to Your Chicken Dust Bath
When it’s time for your chooks to freshen up, your backyard flock loves to get down and dirty to stay clean - it’s called a...
3 Reasons Poultry Fencing is Great For Your Chickens
Free range feathers! Letting your ladies roam the backyard has many benefits for both you and your flock. Your chooks will delight in the opportunity...
Top 7 Reasons You and Your Chickens Need More Asparagus
The humble asparagus is one of the most striking, distinctive and memorable vegetables when it comes to garden grown produce. Tall, lean and green, this universally...
A Brilliant Companion To Garden Grown Broccoli
Most of us can remember sitting at the dinner table, eye-balling our mother or father, as they said in a low firm voice, “eat your...
Easy To Grow Sprouting Seeds For Your Chooks
Chicken Ladies everywhere are treating their girls to some nutritious feed and reliving the 70's by sprouting their own seeds at home! Sprouting your own...
Top 9 Veggies To Plant For You And Your Chickens This Autumn
Traditionally autumn is considered to be a slightly cold and gloomy month – leaves turn brown, the sky turns grey and your veggies slowly wither...
Make Compost Or Manure Tea In 7 Steps
Tea in synonymous with the backyard lifestyle. Whether you're sitting on the deck, watching the laying hens forage, sipping on a nice warm cup of...
Propagate Your Plants In 11 Easy Steps
Plants are truly remarkable things. They take most of its energy from the sun. They provide us with oxygen so we can survive. They even...
A Radical Guide To Radishes
Let’s be honest, radishes don’t normally whip people into a verbal frenzy. It’s not that people have anything against radishes, it’s just simply difficult to...
The Complete Lowdown On Leeks
Leeks may be slightly unfamiliar to some people in Australia. It’s hard to deny the fact that as far as vegetables go they are slightly...
Garlic Is The Perfect Plant For Your Family, Flock And Garden
There is a sense of mystery and mythology surrounding garlic. When we first think about garlic we might initially imagine golden brown loafs of buttery...
Everything You Want To Know About Pumpkins
Pumpkins seem to possess a mythical, magical quality to them like no other fruit or vegetable. Who doesn’t have childhood memories of the Fairy God...
Japanese Millet Perfect For Your Yard And Chickens
Lots of garden and animals lovers are driven by the passion of creating a fully sustainable ecosystem in their backyard. From raising chickens, to growing...
A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Keeping Chickens
Keeping chickens can be a nerve racking experience, especially if you’ve never done it before – but it really is quite easy, so long as...
Clever Ways To Reuse Your Old Chicken Coop Or Tractor
Though a quality chicken coop or tractor that has been lovingly maintained should last for many years there often comes a time when every chook...
Sink Your Teeth Into This 101 Guide To Chicory
The chicory plant has had a relative boom over the past ten years or so, however, in truth this particular herb has been on the...
All The Essential Questions About Cauliflower Answered
Most of us have memories as kids sitting at the kitchen table listening to our parents tell us for the thousandth time to “eat your...
How To Make The Most Of Your Non-Laying Hens
There comes a time in every laying hen’s life when they simply cannot produce the same amount of eggs as they used to. This is...
7 Incredible Things You Need To Know About Eating And Growing Kale
The term “super-food” gets casually tossed around a fair bit these days however kale well and truly deserves the title. Not just for its dense...
A Chicken Tractor Is Your Garden's Best Friend
Many avid gardeners are conflicted when they consider introducing chickens into their backyard. On the one hand, the chickens peck, poop and nourish their soil,...
The ABCs of Gardening: The Beginners Guide To Growing Fruit
Have visions of fruit trees brimming with fresh oranges, lemons and limes in your yard? Perhaps a fruitful mango tree has your mouth watering. Or,...
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