Chickens: The "It" Bird

If you love chickens (and who doesn’t?) then you’ll want to indulge your backyard poultry fantasies at this Saturdays’ “Tour de Coop”, which the Boise Co-op is proud to sponsor along with North End Organic Nursery and the Treasure Valley Food Coalition (TVFC).  Here are the details, courtesy of the press release from TVFC:

Boise Tour de Coop – Saturday, September 11, 2010

Please join us for the inaugural Boise Tour de Coop! Bring your friends and family to take part in a unique adventure on a beautiful day, tour a variety of urban chicken farms, and celebrate the value of sustainable, local food production.

PART 1: Self-Guided Tour from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm – $5 per adult. Kids are free!

We’ve assembled a map of several local chicken coops. You take the map and visit each coop, or as many as you like, meet the urban farmers, and learn how your neighbors are contributing to the local food economy in the Treasure Valley.

 Early registration: Go online to pre-register

 Day-of registration: Information Booth, Capital City Public Market, Downtown Boise, 10 am Look for the Boise Tour de Coop organizers at the Info Booth on the morning of the tour to pay and get your map to start from downtown.

PART 2: After-party – FREE!

After you have experienced all the coops, join everyone at the Tour de Coop after party for food, drink, music, prizes, and community building. The after-party will take place at the North End Organic Nursery on 2350 Hill Road and will have food and beverage provided by the Boise Co-op. Bring your friends!

The Boise Tour de Coop is brought to you by the Treasure Valley Food Coalition, a program of Sustainable Community Connections. Sustainable Community Connections connects ecologically sound, economically viable and socially responsible endeavors; supports sustainable products, programs and funding models; researches best practices, analyzes data and reports on trends; and develops policy recommendations.

The Treasure Valley Food Coalition is a network of community members working together to create a sustainable local food system focused on community-based activities relating to the production, storage, distribution, and consumption of food that are designed and operated to be ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially responsible. We support sustainable agriculture because all Treasure Valley citizens deserve access to affordable, fresh, local, sustainably produced food.

Anyone for "extreme urban chicken adventure"? Oh, yeah!