John Spiers is a writer, artist, and guardian to a small flock of chickens who live in the center of his backyard garden. While he often produced small writing and drawing projects over the years, he never found his creative purpose until he decided to raise some baby chicks. They became the characters in his stories and the subjects of his drawings. His work seeks to share the same joy he feels when spending time with his chickens along with bits of "chicken wisdom" about life which he has learned from them.