Bees, chickens, ducks, goats, rabbits: critter-keeping classes around Seattle

Do you want to join the urban homesteading movement & raise chickens and ducks or keep bees? There are a ton of classes coming up this spring to help you learn how to best create a productive urban menagerie.

Of special note: Seattle Free School is offering three free chicken-keeping classes on March 15 to celebrate the four-year anniversary of its very first free class on chickens. I LOVE the Seattle Free School & can't imagine a better way to celebrate than by taking one of their classes.

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On the menu this weekend: Ethiopia, breakfast, stinky wines, chickens, beer, quince

This weekend, explore Arab or Ethiopian culture, enjoy "stinky" or Georgian wines, cook with quince, learn about keeping chickens in the city, or spend a special night out to benefit some great causes.

Festivals

• Arab Festival
• Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival
• Sky’s Second Annual Harvest Fest
• Sample the Apple and Pear Harvest
• Pumpkinfest at Georgetown!

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SPL's Urban Self-Reliance Series: free classes on chicken-keeping, gardening, canning, wild food, more

Head on over to Freeattle for details on Seattle Public Library's fall series of FREE!  "Urban Self-Reliance" classes. The classes include topics that will be of interest to food lovers, like canning, edible gardening, foraging (including mushrooms), and chicken-keeping. Good stuff!

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Food blog round-up!

It’s been a while since I’ve checked in on the Seattle Food Blog Feed, so I took a mosey over and found out what my neighbors are up to. Here are some of the highlights: spicy food & amine allergies, veganism and black metal, honey harvest, a prodigal goat, sangria, and more.

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Seattle urban farming & critter-keeping: slideshow & calendar of events

Earlier this month, I checked out the Seattle Tilth Urban Farm and Chicken Coop tour to see what some of our Seattle homesteading neighbors are to. Check out the slideshow (click through to Flickr for the captions).

Want to start your own flock or hive? See the calendar of events below the pictures. The Seattle Free School is offering several FREE! chicken-keeping classes! If you already have chickens, consider leading a class yourself - the Free School is having a meeting this week to help potential chicken-keeping class instructors learn the ropes of teaching.

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