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RAISING CHICKENS

If you’ve thought of keeping chickens, you might want to take a look at Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow, recently released in its fourth edition.

This is a comprehensive reference book, which has been providing excellent guidance to poultry keepers for more than 20 years. Now updated and redesigned, it includes details on shelter, food, health care, eggs, chicks and meat – basically, all you need to know. It also explores recent research into chicken behaviour and communication.

With new colour photos and illustrations, this is packed with information for wannabe and established chicken keepers alike.

Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens is published by Storey Publishing at £18.99.

IT’S SHOW TIME!

One of the highlights of this year’s Harrogate Spring Flower Show will be Shed Talk, a chance for visitors to share the highs and lows of their growing year and to get their queries answered by the Shed Talk team. There will also be an avenue of newly designed show gardens, offering inspiration and innovation; flower arranging displays courtesy of countrywide National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies (NAFAS) flower clubs; celebrity chefs in the food theatre – plus fun activities for the children, music, food, crafts, gifts and great garden shopping.