Pastured poultry methods can also be used for young chickens, laying hens, ducks, geese and turkeys. Local farmers will discuss their personal experiences and mobile poultry houses design. This class will teach how to successfully grow a wide variety of gourds in the Rogue Valley, how to properly dry the gourds and how to craft them in to beautiful works of art. Attendees will learn to draw and paint designs on the gourds and decorate them with grasses, stones, beads and more. This is a hands on session which includes gourd crafting in the class.
Water is a valuable and limited natural resource.
This class will address a variety of strategies for efficient water management on your property. Learn strategies to help drought-proof your land through our arid summers. Management-intensive grazing techniques systematically move animals on a schedule through a series of subdivided pastures. Production will improve either through increased animal or increased hay production. Forage quality is improved through rotational grazing including pasture rest periods.