I admit I have my garden fenced off from the girls, but I do love to have them in there, my little garden buddies. Sometimes they are too zealous with their work and they dig up the roots of my stuff. I have some open grid garden trays that I turn over top of new seedlings and around my perennials I make a triangle buffer zone out of cut logs. This stops the digging up of my plants. I grow a few kale in the same spot every year just for the chickens and they work those over all year! But when the strawberries are up--no chickens allowed.

it seems a little bit too antiseptic and plasticy to me. and aesthetically--not that nice. you wouldn't be planting flowers in your fancy set up would you? i like to feel like i'm improving the soil and environment for pollinators and other living things. somehow this just misses it for me