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Daily Mail - 15th February 2010

How to... keep hens and harvest your own eggs in the comfort of your garden

Do you hate buying mass-produced eggs? Well, why not harvest your own supply from the comfort of your garden?

FRANCINE RAYMOND, author of Keeping A Few Hens In Your Garden and host of hen-keeping courses, offers her expert advice for newbies...

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East Anglian Daily Times - 23 January 2009

Time to bring hens back to the garden?
With food prices unpredictable and folk increasingly keen to know what they're eating, people are growing their own. But what about taking a tip from the past and keeping a few chickens, too? Is it a way to combat the recession? And is it easy? Steven Russell seeks advice from 'The Hen Woman' ..........
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Daily Mail - 3rd July 2008

This Life
Francine Raymond on the chequered career that led to her love affair with chickens
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Daily Telegraph 21 December 2007

Natural Christmas Decorations
Elspeth Thompson has some ingenious ways to brighten up Christmas using natural ingredients......

I love to bring some of the garden inside when decorating the house for Christmas, but I was feeling rather stuck in a rut with the swags of ivy, evergreen leaves and berries that I've been snaking up the stairs and along shelves for the past few years.

Somehow, it all feels too dark and heavy and old-hat for the look I want now. For inspiration, I turned to Francine Raymond, who runs a company called the Kitchen Garden from her cottage in Suffolk, and is a dab hand at natural decorations.
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Smallholder 5th December 2007

Ten good reasons to keep hens
Francine Raymond lists the benefits she derives from her flock of free-range poultry.
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