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Tour a Best-Selling Author's Southern Garden

By: Felicia Feaster

Author of "The Help," Kathryn Stockett, gives HGTV a tour of her gorgeous cottage garden.

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Photo: Photo by Jason Travis

Author Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett proves chicken-chic is alive and well. The author of "The Help" keeps a small flock of chickens in her Atlanta backyard.

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Photo: Photo by Jason Travis

One of Stockett's Buff Sussex chickens strikes a contemplative pose.

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Photo: Photo by Jason Travis

These city chickens have been known to roam into the house at times.

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Photo: Photo by Jason Travis

Kathryn Stockett's daughter Lila collects eggs from the family's chickens which she carts via little red wagon, to neighbors' homes to sell.