Fighting off chickens has always been a big challenge in our garden. They do a lot of damage, so we've resorted to only planting things that chickens don't like (cilantro, radishes). I'd been communicating with a missionary in Haiti asking him what he does to control chickens, and he gave me the idea of constructing raised structres and planting in them, so that the chickens can't reach them. He uses old tires to hold the soil, so we decided to try the same thing with the club.
We divided in four groups to construct the 'tire gardens'. The main challenge was making a structure that was tall, yet stable, and strong enough to hold the weight of the soil once it was in the tire. We have two tire gardens that I think will pass the test (Willy is shown with one above in which he's trying to put wood across the bottom to hold the soil in) and below is a picture of one of which I won't be surprised when it falls.
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