Harvey’s Presentations

Coming up Saturday, September 23, 2023, Harvey will be at Bookends

I will be participating in an event called “Bookends,” co-sponsored by the Fauquier County Library and the Open Book bookstore, at the Fall Festival in Warrenton, Virginia, Saturday, September 23.

Other local authors will be present as well, to share and discuss their work with the community and to sell and sign their books. Author booths will be set up at both ends of historic Main Street – in front of the John Barton Payne Building and the Open Book. This event is open to the public and free of charge.

My booth will be in front of the John Barton Payne Building. I will be there all day, 9:00 to 4:00, and would love to meet you and chat. I will have copies for sale of the revised edition of my book, The Small-Scale Poultry Flock.

December 14, 2022, “deep litter” podcast interview

I recently did a podcast interview on the all-important topic of deep litter for best manure management in the henhouse. You can access the interview for free at the Homesteading Family blog.

December 9, 2022, my two-hour class on the home layer flock is now online

In the summer of 2022, I was invited to be an instructor for a new online teaching and learning platform, the School of Traditional Skills. In mid-August the School’s film crew spent three days shooting video for my class on the home laying flock.

The School is currently offering twelve two-hour classes, including my own “Backyard, Egg-Laying Chickens,” along with others on gardening and farming (Cool Weather Gardening, Raised Bed Gardening, Reclaiming Pasture, Milk Goats, Pastured Meat Chickens), and cooking and other food lore (Vegetable Fermentation, Bone Broths, Sourdough Bread, Pressure Canning, Traditional Salt Curing of Pork).

Check out School of Traditional Skills and see what you think of this exciting new learning adventure. If you decide you want access to the School’s content, a single subscription (monthly or annual) is your gateway to all the classes it offers.