A course for those who live in town, yet yearn for the country life.

Many city folk long for a quiet life in the country, perhaps growing their own food, collecting eggs from the chook pen, perhaps having a milking cow or goat, and maybe breeding a few alpacas to shear – and have the fleece spun up for a warm winter garment.  Some of us yearn for spending time riding a horse, or maybe putting a packsaddle on your llama and going bushwalking or going on a picnic.  Perhaps riding in a jogger (cart) pulled by a llama or donkey is more to your liking.

But not everyone can break the city ties and become country dwellers (or at least not right now)

We may feel that a farm lifestyle will need to wait until retirement, or until the children are old enough to arrange their own transport.

You don’t have to wait! And you don’t have to leave your suburban home either!

You could raise livestock in suburbia, board your livestock on a nearby farm, or maybe try out farming by leasing a block of land on which you can graze livestock.  Perhaps you could rent out your suburban home and rent a country home instead (try before you buy)

“The Urban Farmer” course offers options to the city dweller that isn’t quite ready to permanently commit to rural living.

Hand Spun Yarn from your own alpacas

Topics include:

- Keeping livestock in your backyard

• How and where to start
• Selecting what kind of livestock is suitable
• Pluses and Minuses
• What’s legal & what’s not
• Keeping the neighbours on side
• What to do when you go on holidays

- Agisting (boarding) and/or Management of livestock of all kinds

• How to find agistment
• The Agistee’s (your) obligations, the agistor’s (farmer’s) obligations
• What sort of agistment suits you best
• How much will it cost?

- Leasing land on which to graze animals

• Pluses and minuses
• What will it cost
• Where to look

Please bring:

• Sensible clothing
• Your lunch
• Pencil & Paper

We will provide Tea & Coffee.