These classes are aimed for very novice students who have an interest in having a homestead or a farm someday or livestock.

Rosalie was an Animal Science major at the University of California at Davis then plunged into farming in 2008. Rosalie has many failures that she has learned from and would love to share her experience of raising healthy livestocks for future farmers or homesteaders.

7/19/26 and 8/23/26, 9-1 pm: Meat bird processing day. You may want to learn to process a chicken for your homestead or for yourself at some point in time. Rosalie can help you with a humane dispatching method and will show you how to cut up a chicken once we are done. She will discuss the laws about processing your own animals and selling them. She will demonstrate how to package the chicken for long-term storage freezing.

Always bring a lunch or a dish to share.

Teaching is very informal, and questions are encouraged. Wear casual clothes with good walking/hiking shoes. Bring disposable gloves for the processing workshops.

We ask that you leave your pets at home.

You will come home with one of your very own processed chicken at the end of the workshop.