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Chickens are the newest hobby pet.  How do you know if they’re right for you?  Come to our workshop and have all your questions answered.

This workshop includes:

•  An overview of owning chickens
• Equipment necessary for happy hens
• Chicken tractors vs hen houses
• Which breeds meet your needs?
• Placing your order
• The basics of raising chicks
• Pullets – the teenage chicken
• Maintaining a happy hen house
• Too many roosters – now what?
• Establishing an egg business

The Chicken Workshop will give you all the tools necessary to be successful.  Before you know it, you’ll be eating eggs from your own chickens!

We will also have a guest speaker, Christy Chessman, owner of Front Porch Farm.  Christy is passionate about chickens and raises all her chicks the natural, old fashioned way.  She will also be taking orders for her chicks and pullets.

We will also be offering an Egg Cooking Class, demonstrating delicious egg dishes beyond the typical fried egg.  There is a 10% discount to anyone who has attended our Chicken Workshop.

Registration:

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This unique cooking class is designed to help all those chicken owners who have an over abundance of eggs at one time or another.

Anne-Marie, a fantastic chef, will demonstrate several delicious egg dishes to help us get past the typical hard boiled egg and egg salad.

A few of the recipes on the menu:  Eggs Benedict, Quiche, and Lemon Semi Friddo

If you have attended our recent Chicken Workshop, there is a 10% discount for this class.

Dee Brown, a member of our Ladies’ Homestead Gathering, has asked her grandmother, Eleanor Hunt, to come and share with us the skill behind true Italian cooking.  We will learn how to make ravioli, gnocchi, and biscotti and a few other authentic Italian dishes.

The cost for this class will cover the ingredients to make these dishes.

Come and join us for learning, laughter, and some good eating!

This is a brand new workshop offered here at the Lazy B Farm.  This workshop will cover the basic skills required to survive in the out of doors.  Our knowledgeable teacher, Butch, is self taught and has a wealth of knowledge and stories about his own use of wild plants and trees for medicinal and edible purposes.

This class is suitable for boys in grades 6th – 10th.

Our Basics workshop will cover:

Plant identification – poisonous and non-poisonous plants

Tree identification and uses

Shelter – how to build a shelter from tree limbs

Fishing pole construction and how to filet a fish

Fire building and fish frying

Purifying water

Schedule for the workshop:

8:45 – Arrival to Lazy B Farm

9:00 – Group gathers for introduction to Butch

9 – noon: Tree identification, shelter construction, plant identification

Noon: Lunch to be provided by Lazy B Farm

12:30 – 3:30: Construction of traps, fishing rod, fire building and preparation of fish

3:45 – end of session, pick up by parents

Items to bring:

Water bottle

Extra clothing

Towel

Notebook and pen

“It’s so worth it!  This really makes me want to start gardening!”   Carol Hamilton

**Class is limited to 30

This workshop is designed to cover all the basics for a successful gardening season.  There will be door prizes and drawings throughout the day, adding to the assortment of tools needed to start your own garden.  A packet of information will be available for each workshop.

Lunch will be provided by the Lazy B Farm “chefs” using items from our own gardens.

Workshop Schedule:

 8:45 am: Meet and Greet

9 am – 11: Square Foot Gardening

11:00 – 12:00 pm:  Bugs!

12:00 – 1:00:  Lunch

  ** the Farm Store will be open during lunch

1 – 1:45pm: Vermiculture with Stephanie Kilroe

2 – 3:00pm:  Hoop Houses

** Farm Store will be open after the workshop is concluded. 

Class Description

Square Foot Gardening

We’ll gather in the classroom and cover the basics of gardening, soil preparation and the technique of Square Foot Gardening.  Together, we’ll construct a square foot garden, complete with plants.

Beneficial Insects

I love bugs and have realized how beneficial bugs can be for our garden…if you know the good ones from the bad ones.  During this class, we’ll scour the garden and find “specimens” to bring back to the classroom.  We’ll identify the bugs, whether they are beneficial or not, and how to “organically” get rid of the bad ones.

Vermiculture

Worms are a very important component of our gardening success.  Stephanie Kilroe will share the benefits of composting with worms, how to start your own worm beds, and the ease of using compost tea in your garden.

Hoop Houses

You may have heard of hoop houses but what is the difference between a hoop house and a green house?  What’s the benefit of a hoop house?  How can I use them successfully in my yard?

We will discuss this and more in this session.  Time permitting, we will construct a hoop house that will be perfect for any backyard.

“If you harvest 30 pounds of tomatoes at $2 per pound, that plant is worth $60.  But it only cost $2.90 to buy the plant, a few cents for water and 15 cents for the fertilizer.”      Thomas Bewick   

What to Bring: 

*Notebook and writing utensil if you’re the kind who likes to take notes.  (There  will be handouts for each workshop.)

* Boots and gardening gloves – you will be playing in the dirt.

* Extra clothes if you really like to get into your work.

* Coffee mug if you’re a coffee or tea drinker – helps us in our efforts to be good stewards of the environment

* Containers to carry home plants

* Water and snacks – there will be light breakfast items available in the morning