[Ccpg] Nov 30 Early Bird Discount Deadline/Gardening With and For Chickens Workshop @ Fairview Gardens

Tue Nov 29 22:56:05 PST 2011

*Last day for early bird discount for City Chicks workshop ($30 if you 
sign up by Nov 30, $40 after).  Please share...

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*/Fairview Gardens & Santa Barbara Permaculture Network present:
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   Workshop with Patricia Foreman
Gardening With & For Chickens
Sat, Dec 10, 10am- 1pm,  2011
Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens
Cost $40/$30 if paid by Nov 30

*  Workshop Description; Gardening with and for Chickens:* Chickens 
have skill sets that can be gainfully employed in backyard gardens. This 
interactive discussion will give you practical and effective 
cutting-edge ways to integrate chickens in with your yard and garden. 
Topics include types of fencing (what works and what doesn?t), when to 
let birds in and when to keep them out of specific crops life cycles, 
bird-scaping, and, best of all, getting wholesome, home-grown food for 
both you, and your flock. This is truly be a ?Think Outside the Coop? 
workshop.

/ G/ ot Chickens?  A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food, and 
superior soil quality, has led more and more suburban and city dwellers 
to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens.  Across America 
municipalities are allowing, and even encouraging, residents to keep 
laying hens within city limits.

Join Patricia Foreman, author of */City Chicks~Keeping Micro-flocks of 
Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food 
Suppliers/, *for a *Workshop on Saturday December 10, 10am-1pm, *at the 
*Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens*, as she shares her 
humor, passion, and extensive knowledge about raising chickens in the 
cities and suburbs of America.

* *Patricia Foreman graduated from Purdue University with degrees in 
Pharmacy and Agriculture.  At Indiana University's Graduate School of 
Public and Environmental Affairs she earned a Master of Public Affairs 
degree, with majors in Health Systems Administration and International 
Affairs. She completed the Virginia Master Gardener's program in 1999 
and a Permaculture Design Course with Bill Mollison 1991.

Pat has kept poultry for over 20 years. Her experience includes 
operating a small-scale farm raising free range, organic layers, 
broilers and turkeys. She keeps a backyard flock of heritage chickens.  
Pat is also the co-author of "Chicken Tractor, Day Range Poultry, 
Backyard Market Gardening,  and A Tiny Home to Call Your Own".

The Workshop will take place Saturday, Dec 10, 10am-1pm at Fairview 
Gardens, 598 North Fairview Ave, Goleta CA, 93117.
  Cost $40/Early Bird $30 if paid by Nov 30. Books will be available for 
purchase at the event.

Sponsored by Fairview Gardens & Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.FairviewGardens.org

<http://www.fairviewgardens.org/>For more info & to register: 
Sharon at FairviewGardens.org <mailto:Sharon at FairviewGardens.org> , 
805-967-7369

_Additional Info:_

Fairview Gardens: www.fairviewgardens.org <http://www.fairviewgardens.org>

Jill Cloutier interviews Pat Foreman on Sustainable World Radio:
http://pdcastsusworldradio.libsyn.com/chickens-to-the-rescue-how-keeping-chickens-can-fuel-the-local-food-revolution 
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Patricia Foreman/Good Earth Publications Website/ 
http://www.goodearthpublications.com

/Patricia Foreman Book Tour Nov. 14-Dec 20 CA, AZ ,NM/Tour Organizer 
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network www.sbpermaculture.org 
<http://www.sbpermaculture.org>
Official tour sponsor, Permaculture Credit Union www.pcuonline.org 
<http://www.pcuonline.org/>

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