Living Close to Home Series

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Interested in a more sustainable lifestyle? Join us for a full slate of classes, including Grafting Fruit Trees, Making Goat Cheese, Canning, Raising Honeybees, and Backyard Chickens.

Please check out our upcoming offerings:

Chicken Butchering 101
Saturday, March 10
10:00-3:00 (length of class dependent upon # of participants - human and fowl.)
 Cost: $10.00, limited to 15 people
Egg production among laying flocks starts to drop off dramatically after about 3 years. Some backyard flock owners may prefer to keep them around as pets and that’s okay as long as you can afford to feed them. If you’d like to learn the art of turning laying hens into stewing birds, join us Saturday, March 10, at 10:00 for a butchering class. Participants will have “hands-on” experience as we cull the Venetucci flock. Everyone will go home with one pot-ready stew bird.  Register on-line now or mail check to Venetucci Farm, 5210 S Highway 85, CS, CO 80911

Growing Fruit Trees in the Pikes Peak Region
Saturday, April 21,
10:00-3:00
Cost $40.00, limited to 15 people
Local backyard orchardist, James Kulbeth, will instruct class participants in the techniques of selecting, prepping, planting, transplanting, pruning, training, and maintaining fruit trees in the Pikes Peak Region. With a special focus on apple varieties, participants will have hands-on experience as they tend the Pinello Ranch apple orchard in its third spring. Everyone will receive one bare root apple tree to take home and plant.  Register on-line now or mail check to Venetucci Farm, 5210 S Highway 85, CS, CO 80911

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Please Note For All Classes: For weather concerns please call 391-8102 the morning of the class for cancellation info. Please be advised that the classes will go forward except in the case of extreme weather. Dress to be comfortable outside.  No Refunds will be available in order to keep down administrative and thus participant costs

Future classes, exact dates to be announced:  May - Raising Backyard Chickens, June - Goat Milk Cheese Making,  August - Preserving the Garden’s Bounty: Canning and Freezing,  September - Introduction to Beekeeping

Stay tuned to our website and Facebook page for more info about the return of this wonderful series in down-home sustainability education. For questions or concerns, please email us or call the farm at 391-8102.