Farm Events

Backyard Chickens  Sunday, May 2nd. 1:00 pm-4:00 pm.
For those new to chicken raising in urban areas who are ready to DO IT! Chickens provide nutritious eggs and/or meat as well as nutrient-rich fertilizer for your garden, bug and weed control, and hours of entertainment. This unique workshop sends you home not only with the basics on chicken care, coop building, fencing, security, and ideas for how to best utilize them on your property, but also with ACTUAL CHICKS themselves! When you register, you'll specify how many layer hens you'd like, and you'll learn exactly what you'll need to take them home and care for them yourselves. I'll raise 'em for you if you can't, but doing it yourself is highly recommended as a great way to bond and get dogs and kids used to them. Additional charge for this workshop: $3/chick, or $10/10-week old layer.

Urban Permaculture Sunday, July 25th. 7:30 am-11:30 am, and 1:00-4:00 pm.
Carrie Jones of Draggin' Wing Farm and Casey O'Leary of earthly delights Farm team up to expand our popular Idaho Green Expo workshop! Using the natural world as a template, participants will learn how basic permaculture principles can help you design a highly complex, resilient, and productive home and garden oasis that feeds you as well as many other animals, plants, and insects. Learn how permaculture concepts, like using vertical space and edges to their fullest potential really expand the growing area, which is so limited in urban space. Permaculture principles applied to urban settings have the potential to make our cities and our backyards our primary source of food, fiber, and pleasure, thus easing the burden on areas outside the city. Morning session and lunch will focus on principles and design of permaculture sites, and will be held at Draggin' Wing farm. In the afternoon, we'll move to earthly delights and explore design and practical implementation of permaculture concepts.

Homebrewing and Wild Wine Makin' Sunday, August 22nd 9:00-1:00;  2:00-5:00
A revival of last years' extremely popular workshop, the morning session will focus on hop and beer basics, where participants will harvest and learn about cultivating homegrown hops. You'll leave with hops for brewing, as well as resources to brew your own. We'll brew a batch of beer, and work with beers in all stages of the process. In the afternoon, we'll move to the wilder side of beer and wine, learning to lure wild yeasts from the air to ferment our brews, and make herbal beers, meads, and country wines. Sampling will of course be ample. You must be 21 to attend this workshop. Feel free to sign up for one or both sessions.

Home Canning & Preserving Sunday, August 29th 8:00 am-noon, 1:00-5:00 pm
Learn the basic techniques and safety precautions of home canning, including water bath and pressure canning in the earthly delights outdoor kitchen. We'll prepare and can tomatoes, beans, pickles, and pear butter, with additional items as time permits. Participants will head home with several jars of our tasty concoctions! Our cannin' veggies will come from Draggin' Wing Farm, where Carrie Jones offers canning shares of these and other popular vegetables/fruits. To order your own canning shares of these and other vegetables, which you'll receive 1-2 weeks after the workshop, contact Carrie at 440-8406 or dragginwingfarm@yahoo.com.  Additional charge for this workshop, to cover supplies, is $20.