The Hatch Project
Hancock Shaker Village provides schools in Berkshire County MA with an incubator, eight eggs (laid by our heritage breed chickens), educational material, and trained instruction. Over the course of three weeks, the children in the classrooms watch the eggs hatch and the chicks grow. Once the chicks reach a certain age, the new generation of heritage chickens are brought back to Hancock Shaker Village, the oldest working farm in the Berkshires.
In the process, the students learn about the hatching process of chicks, nature, a life cycle, and farming.
Interested in learning more, or supporting this project?
Contact Cindy Dickinson at cdickinson@hancockshakervillage.org, 413.443.0188 x213