| Location: Homegrown Village Workshop |
Heidi will discuss the the rewards and challenges of raising goats in an urban environment. Topics covered will be responsible goat ownership, housing, fencing, feed, exercise, and health care. The workshop will include a milking and cheesemaking demonstration.
Heidi Kooy is a former anthropologist turned small business owner and urban homesteading enthusiast. When she is not busy sewing for her handmade craft business, Pie Dough Productions, or bossing around workers for her construction contracting business, she is enjoying organic gardening, cooking, canning, preserving, and tending to her collection of small livestock. Her city farming adventures are detailed in her blog, Itty Bitty Farm in the City. She is also the school garden coordinator at Monroe Elementary school in San Francisco, a member of the San Francisco Urban Agricultural Alliance, and a member of the San Francisco School Food Coalition, an organization dedicated to improving school lunches for San Francisco public schools.
