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Coming Thursday: Free workshops on everything you want to know about raising chickens

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 09:50
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Interested in raising chickens? Instructors at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies plan to hold two how-to workshops on Thursday, Oct. 15. The workshops are slated to take place from 1 to 3 p.m. and from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Among the topics to be covered are care and feeding, chicken tractors (movable chicken coops) and fence building. The workshops are free and open to the public and will be held in the Outback Farm Educational Garden at the south end of the Western Washington University campus.

For more information, visit http://www.wwu.edu/fairhaven/studentlife/outback/events/09fall.shtml. Information about The Outback's four gardens -- the Community Garden, the Market Garden, the Herb Garden and the Forest Garden -- is available at http://www.wwu.edu/fairhaven/studentlife/outback/gardens.shtml.

Click here or on any of the images below for a slideshow of all the photos.