Your chickens will love you for the chance to free-range in your garden! Learn how your garden can also benefit. This lecture class includes how to let your chickens weed and control pests, how to keep chickens out of your garden, what plants are toxic to chickens, and how to manage and use chicken manure in your garden.
Cost: $18 for Tilth members, $25 non-members. Advance registration and payment is required.
Don't be a chicken about raising chickens! This hands-on workshop will demystify the inner workings of a chicken coop. Topics at this workshop include coop security, materials and supplies necessary for a coop and chicken run, and nesting box and roosting specifications. We will also briefly cover egg production, manure management, and ways to keep your chickens happy and healthy in their new home.
COST: $25 Seattle Tilth members, $35 non-members. Advance registration and payment is required.
Celebrating its 3rd year, Seattle Green Festival is an energetic weekend of eco-innovations and hands-on demonstrations focusing on putting green into daily routines. Held June 5 – 6, at the Washington State Convention Center, the festival will feature 175 speakers, 300 “screened for green” businesses, workshops, eco-fashion show, and great kids’ activities.
