Setting-up a small-scale pastured poultry enterprise

Hear from three women on the West coast of Scotland who are running agroecological enterprises producing eggs and pastured chickens. Gilly Dixon-Spain from The Sailean Project on the Isle of Lismore, Jenny Macdonald from Woodside Arran Farm on the Isle of Arran, and Jill Russell from Ramstane Farm in East Ayrshire.

Topics for discussion will include:

• Regenerative or Holistic grazing with poultry
• Designing mobile hen coops
• The challenges of poultry regulations and how to work with them!
• Setting up on-farm slaughtery
• Scaling up your egg enterprise
• How to approach direct sales, wholesale, and public procurement

For more info on pasturing poultry, have a look at this blog that Gilly wrote about how they do it at The Sailean Project.

This interactive online workshop will offer space for questions and group discussion, so participants have a chance to share knowledge and build their networks. It is open to farmers, crofters and new entrants living in Scotland, working the land at any scale.