Spokane Country Living Expo

property owners and small-scale growers. Growing numbers of urban residents are moving to the country to escape the frenzies of city living. In Spokane County alone over 32,000 landowners live on small acreages of just two to 80 acres.

The Expo features acres of exhibits including tractors, animal care products, building supplies, and country home furnishings.

Over 60 hourly seminars, specifically designed for people with two to 80 acres of land, include pasture management, building ponds, horse care, landscaping with native plants and growing for market.

Youth and Family Attractions: The Aslin-Finch petting zoo offers a picture-taking area with baby farm animals. Saturday is Aslin-Finch "Free Chick Day," when 500 baby chicks will be given away with the purchase of a 25-lb. bag of feed.

The Country Living Expo is coordinated by the Agricultural Bureau of the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, a 501 C (3) organization. A portion of show proceeds is used to provide natural resource education programs through the Northwest Natural Resources Institute. These programs include the Model Farm, held in cooperation with District 81 Schools, that provides 2,500 third grade students with a "life on the farm" experience and teaches them how agricultural producers bring food to their tables.

Dates/Times/Location: Friday - Sunday, March 22 - 24, 2001, at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center. Show hours: Friday -- 12 noon to 8 p.m.; Saturday -- 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Adult 3-day admission is $5.00 and children under 14 are free.

For more information visit www.countryshow.org