Project Goals and Content (specifics to be worked out based on youth interests):
- Review urban/rural homesteading concept
- Animals (sheep, guinea fowl, egg chickens, meat chickens, rabbits) and discuss goals, care, predators and lessons learned
- Discuss meat chicken processing and equipment
- Orchard: trees and crops (fruit trees, native trees, berries, vegetables, etc)
- Grape vineyard and the process required to achieve a mature vineyard
- Bees & honey processing process and equipment (TBD if we get into bees or not, depending on weather)
- Greenhouse – propagating your own plants, trees, etc.
- Discuss canning, preserving, etc. the bounty from property
- Supper (between lunch and dinner) in backyard – i.e. individual pizzas or similar
AGES: All ages, minimum 3 families, max 8 families
DATES: April 23 and / or May 7, 11:00-5:00, plus a one-hour Zoom meeting to discuss logistics. Location is in Sebastopol
PROJECT FEE: None