Gardening with Chickens, Grow Fruit Trees

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Gardening with Chickens

In the first part of the show, we chat with chicken expert and author Lisa Steele.

Steele is a Maine Master Gardener and 5th generation chicken keeper.

In this episode, she tells us about:

• Integrating chickens into the garden
• What to grow for chickens
• What to avoid growing
• The pecking order, and how to deal with it
• Using chicken manure in the garden
• Using eggshells and cycling them back into the garden

Grow Fruit Trees Fast

In the second half of the show, we chat with fruit tree expert Susan Poizner, founder of Orchard People.

Poizner is the host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show, a college instructor, and the author of the award-winning book Growing Urban Orchards.

In this episode, she tells us about:

• What to do with fruit trees in the spring
• Shopping for fruit trees
• Pruning fruit trees
• Common problems first-time fruit tree growers often face
• The community orchard she helped found in Toronto

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