Backyard Chickens Draws A Crowd

This year’s “Backyard Chickens” session was held this past weekend, drawing another enthusiastic full house. Participants spent the first segment in the farmhouse learning about the basics of keeping chickens: getting started, setting up a coop, feeding and caring for chickens, and chicken-keeping economics 101. Afterwards, everyone took a tour of the coops at the estate, including the property’s historic coop which houses our flock of 30-plus hens and 3 roosters; a homemade coop which houses 3 hens behind the Red Cottage; and a small store-bought coop made of composite of recycled polymers & wood byproducts.

The next session in our Backyard Homesteading Workshop Series will be held on April 2, focusing on “Creating A Compact Orchard.”