City Chicks - Keeping Chickens As Garden Helpers By Patricia Foreman Illustrated soft cover book in good condition- 464 pages - b/w photographs.3.8

There are lots of books on keeping chickens, but City Chicks is the only book to tell you how to use and employ chickens in your garden, to create garden and top soil, as clucking civic solid waste management worker and much more. Urban chickens are in and chickens have become the mascot of the local food movement. But how to take care of them and employ their skill sets? Read City Chicks: Keeping Micro-Flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Creators, Bio-recyclers, and Local Food Suppliers. City Chicks shows you how to keep, employ and enjoy backyard poultry. Throughout all 464 pages there are photos, diagrams, tables and chicken jokes that make this book an entertaining reference. A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep chickens in their backyards and gardens