Details (and an actual logo, hopefully, if our resident artist is up to it...) to follow soon, but we have tentatively scheduled the first annual Brazos Valley Pulletpalooza tour of backyard chicken facilities for the first weekend in December!
We currently have three definite spots on the tour, and numerous others who are probables. The idea will be to visit with each backyard chicken family, see how their birds are sited and cared for, and enjoy refreshments (with a heavy egg theme, naturally!)
This event will be in lieu of a monthly tour of a local farm on the part of the Brazos Locavores, which is a truly fine organization which promotes local foods. The Locavores actually have a wide variety of programs on their horizon which will be geared towards encouraging home production over the next few years, not just of eggs, but also of anything else you can grow in your backyard. At some point, they will be working in a tour of local gardens (though perhaps not in the same year as a tour of chicken coops, but as you know, we at Myrtle's place think you ought to have both anyway, right?) and maybe even a workshop or two.
Any and all backyard bird owners are more than welcome! And anyone who is on the verge of bird (Leslie? Y'all got your birds yet?) is encouraged to get involved, too!
We are very excited about this, and will post a lot more as time draws near.
Happy farming!
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on the verge still! Trying to assess the whole inter-species logistical aspects (i.e. my kitties are notorious hunters and even if they can't get in the coop they'd sit beside the fence and cause the chickens to be so nervous they shed their feathers and never lay!).
ReplyDeleteWill put the event on our calendar - goodness I'm looking forward to December!!
Leslie