Chickens in the Backyard

[Ken Johnston]

Chickens in the Backyard

Saturday, March 24

10 am – noon

Fee: $27.00 non-members, $22.00 members
 

Lecture, All Levels – Beginners Encouraged 

Calling all gardeners to join the backyard chicken movement!  Backyard chickens are now pecking around in every neighborhood, town and city. This beginner’s workshop will inspire and give you the skills to start a backyard flock of your own. Topics covered include: nutrition, shelter/coops, health, egg production, breeds, predators, regulations, general care, helpful resources, and more. Inspect a few hens and admire some freshly laid eggs. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers.

 

Meg Taylor is a mother, farmer, educator, and Co-Founder and Director of The Farm Education Collaborative. She started the Pioneer Valley Backyard Chicken Association in 2008 which hosts a website, community forum, annual coop tour, and in-person ‘chicken chats’. She began with three backyard hens in a suburb of Boston but now has a mixed flock of 20 chickens, sheep, cats/dog, and grows food for her neighbors at her home, North Wind Farm, in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.

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[Annie Parker]

I thought there was a city ordinance against chickens in Holyoke. Was that a vicious rumor, did the law change?