Chickens & Bees (NOFA-VT Summer Workshop Series Event)

In this interactive workshop we will learn how to integrate free-range chickens for eggs and meat, and bee hives for pollination and honey, into your lawn & gardens - without having them become a free meal for the wild creatures that share your land. We’ll show 3 models of Chicken Tractors and visit the bee yard while discussing how to set up, tend, harvest, and sell the extra to offset expenses. Please bring a bagged lunch; we will provide blueberry cobbler for dessert! In addition to chickens and bees, Honey Dew Homestead includes a small orchard, a large vegetable garden, and an experimental rice paddy.

Directions to 1372 Old Stage Rd, Williston: from Taft corners: take Rte 2A toward FIVE CORNERS in Essex. at 2nd Traffic Signal (Mountain View Dr.), turn Right onto Mountain View (if you turn left you will be on Industrial Ave and eventually merge onto Williston Road). Drive for EXACTLY 2 miles on Mtn. View Rd. (toward N. Williston Road) to Old Stage Road (at the corner of Mtn view and Old Stage is Adams Farm Market). Turn left onto Old Stage Road (Dead End). We are the 4th driveway on the right (#1372) and you will see the business sign on the roadside: Career Networks and Honey Dew Homestead.

Parking: Please park in driveway