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Chickens are Easy! An Introduction to Keeping Chickens
Learn the basics of chicken coop design, relevant community ordinances, breed selection, care and feeding and more for backyard chickens.
The Wylde Center (www.wyldecenter.org), one of Atlanta’s premier environmental education organizations, will offer several exciting adult classes this September at several of the organization’s public greenspaces in Decatur and East Atlanta. Topics range from growing a vegetable garden to keeping a backyard flock of chickens, and pre-registration is required.
Saturday, Sept. 20, Chickens are Easy! Intro to Keeping Chickens
10 a.m. – noon at the Oakhurst Garden, 435 Oakview Road, Decatur, Ga. 30030
$20 for Wylde Center members and $30 for non-members
Join The Celtic Gardener, Anne-Marie Anderson, for the Wylde Center’s popular chicken “crash course”. This class will cover the basics of coop design, relevant community ordinances, breed selection, care and feeding and outside resources. Anne-Marie is a local keeper of an urban flock, and past chair of the Wylde Center’s annual Urban Coop Tour.
About the Wylde Center
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In 1997, an idea took root in the Oakhurst area of Decatur, Ga. Neighbors Sally Wylde and Louise Jackson envisioned a community garden where children could learn about the natural world and enjoy hands-on gardening activities. With the purchase of a half-acre of property at the corner of South McDonough St. and Oakview Road, the Oakhurst Community Garden was born. Today, supported by members, foundations, corporations and donors, the non-profit has been re-named the Wylde Center to honor its co-founder and to better encompass its expanded range of properties and programs. The Wylde Center oversees four distinctive greenspaces, a year-round educational program for all ages, social events and the Decatur City Schools’ Farm to School Program. Staff and volunteers engage children, families and individuals in activities designed to develop creative skills in sustainable urban living, organic gardening, health and nutrition. Despite its robust growth, the Wylde Center has stayed true to its original mission of cultivating vibrant greenspaces for everyone to enjoy and inspiring communities of environmental stewards. www.wyldecenter.org
