Melissa Caughey is the author of Chicken Wisdom Frame-Ups and the best-selling books How to Speak Chicken and A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens. She is a backyard chicken keeper, beekeeper, master gardener, and freelancer who writes the award-winning blog Tilly's Nest. Caughey has been featured in HGTV, DIY Network, Community Chickens, Grit Magazine, Country Living, and on NPR--and can be found speaking on chicken keeping and gardening at events across the country. She lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.