Chooks and Permaculture
Presented by Earth Link
Saturday 25th October 8.00 am-12.00
at Four Winds
Want to raise and choose the right chooks?
To raise and choose healthy, happy and productive chooks, join David Matthews, Ross Coe and other guest speakers for a morning session covering breeds, breeding, feeding, housing (mobile tractors, garden locations), property design, and their role in permaculture and biodiversity.
WHEN: Saturday 25th October
8am – 12
WHERE: Four Winds,
Ocean View Q 4521
RSVP: Monday 20th October
HOW: Ph 07 3425 3138
COST: $20 /15 conc (includes morning tea)
NOTE: Please bring hat, water, and sunscreen
About David Matthews, Ross Coe and guests
David formally trained as a veterinarian and has completed an MBA and Diploma in Permaculture Design at Crystal Waters. He is a member of the following committees:-
Upper Brisbane Region Catchment Network (Chairman), Land care, Organic and Biodynamic Standards of Australia and is actively involved with the Rural Fire Brigade.
Ross is a teacher with Education Queensland and works at Nudgee Beach Environmental Education Centre.
A former classroom teacher, he has specialized in teaching Environmental Education to students from Prep to Year Twelve since 1990.
The Education Department’s Environmental Education Centres focus on incorporating issues of sustainability into the formal classroom curriculum often through an excursion into a particular habitat.
Ross lives on small acreage in Whiteside and has, as his hobby, breeding and showing Gold Laced Wyandottes – a rare colour of a slightly unusual American breed of poultry. He is a member of the Lawnton Poultry Club, the Queensland Wyandotte Club, the Sydney and Districts Wyandotte Club and the Australian Wyandotte Club.
As an advocate of the preservation of biodiversity in domestic flora and fauna, Ross believes passionately that small acreage properties are the key to the future preservation of these genetics.
Accompanying Ross are two fellow members of the Lawnton Poultry Club, Joanne and Bill Hutchinson who have brought a number of other breeds of poultry to illustrate the great genetic diversity that poultry enthusiasts are attempting to save from extinction.
Joanne and Bill have shown these breeds with great success in
For more information:
Email earthlink@mercy.org.au
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