Decatur's "Chicks In the City" Tour Next Saturday
Decatur Metro | April 17, 2009
Clare writes in…
Chicks in the City Tour – A Tour of Decatur’s Urban Chicken Coops
Saturday April, 25th 230pm – 530pm
Purchase tickets online and find more info at www.oakhurstgarden.orgTake an afternoon self-guided tour of chicken coops in Decatur on the second annual “Chicks in the City” Tour. Learn what it takes to have your own urban flock! A variety of coops will be on display, from elaborate to simple. Owners will answer your questions and resources and ordinances will be discussed. The tour is co-sponsored by Georgia Organics, the Oakhurst Community Garden Project and Oh Baby! Fitness.
Tickets will also be available for purchase on the day of the tour at the Oakhurst Community Garden Project located at 435 Oakview Road, Decatur, GA, 30030. None of the other homes on the tour will have on-site ticket sales.
Cost is $20 for non-members, $15 for Georgia Organics and Oakhurst Garden members, $5 for kids 8 years and up and kids under 8 are free.
The coop tour is bike-friendly, an easy route of 8 homes in Decatur.
For more information, please call 678.642.4977.
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Should be fun!
It’s the coopiest thing going.
If you don’t go you are just a dumb cluck.
Come and see the homes of those who are both right and left wing.
Not sponsored by Chik-fil-A.
Hosted by FogHorn Leghorn
Somebody stop me….
$20?
that’s chickenfeed!
Welcome to the no pun zone:
I don’t have the details, but I remember reading something recently about a serious dust-up in Roswell in which the city was trying to crack down on folks raising chickens in their back yards (correct me if I’ve got this wrong). Interesting municipal comparison – we are embracing this “crazy” concept and they are fighting it like the plague. Chalk up another reason to live here. Love it. It’d be great to see this comparison get a highlight in the metro-wide media.
You would think they would like chickens, being “yolk-els”.
Fortunately, Decatur’s municipal code has long been very supportive of backyard poultry (it just sets out some reasonable specifications on the number of birds you can have per square foot in your enclosure and where the coop can be placed on the lot. Roswell? Let’s just say the chicken enthusiasts have some educating to do at city hall out there. Keeping chickens is more than wacky fun; it’s about living sustainably, eating locally (you can’t get more local than a backyard coop), delicious food (compare the flavor of any commercial egg to one from your own hen and you’ll see what I mean), and self-sufficiency (I am also a gardener and I can’t remember the last time I bought commercial fertilizer, organic or otherwise). And as this tour demonstrates, these backyard coops and the chickens themselves can be little works of art!