On-Farm Food Safety workshop at
Four Seasons Farm
July 12, 2009
Topics: Integrating Plants and Animals on Your Farm and Compost Management
Host Toni Carey welcomed guests and provided hand out information to supplement topics discussed at the workshop.
Toni and Ron Carey share their wealth of information throughout the workshop.
Guest Speaker Diane Green of Greentree Naturals discussed Farmers Market regulations and their evolution in the past 19 years.
Four Seasons Farm successfully integrates animals and plants on their family farm.
The first stop on the barn tour, the butcher hog pen.
Alicia Best and Jennifer Funk looking out of the back side of the barn at Junior…
Junior the 600+ pound boar.
Betsi, one of three of the farms sows with a new litter of piglets.
One of the hogs enjoying a mud bath.
Boer cross goats relaxing in the shade.
Hay put up for a long winter ahead inside the main barn.
Cornish cross meat chickens in the brooder.
Information is shared on the recently remodeled laying hen coop.
Boer cross meat goats and Cornish cross meat chickens happily cohabitating in the same pasture
Information being given about compost management and the farms garden practices.
Four Seasons Farm can be found at the Sandpoint Farmers market and offer seasonal deliveries.