One more comment, on the subject of fences - once you start a garden, are watering daily and growing luscious green things every critter for miles around will find your garden. Bunnies and deer alone will eat practically everything before the plants hardly get started, then they will still come to your garden for the water.
You will need a fence anyway. Just build one that will deflect the wind effectively without being blown down onto your garden. Again, I'd advise against chain link unless you want to grow vines or something on it to fill in the holes. Bunnies can dig under it, and it won't help with the wind problem. If you can block even a percentage of the wind, your water usage will be much lower, so even though a solid fence will be more expensive at first, thinking long term you'll save the extra money in water costs.
