Tour of Boulder chicken coops Sept. 4
See 17 places where we raise chickens. Biking encouraged.
Boulder Reporter | Aug 31, 2010
By Laura Ruby in The Blue Line
It’s time to get ready for Boulder’s first annual Tour de Coops.
With thanks to Betsy Burton for her inspiration, Boulder will have its first annual biking tour of backyard chicken coops, edible gardens and bee hives. Betsy, who runs the Lyons Farmette, launched the first Lyons Tour de Coops last September, featuring 14 backyard coops around town.
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The Tour de Coops Boulder is an open tour that is free to the public, occurring in Boulder County September 4th, 2010, from 2-5 PM. An open tour is one in which there is no specific start or end location. You can find a list of properties on the Tour on the YummyYards website or the Transition Colorado website.
Read the rest of Laura Ruby’s story on The Blue Line
First to get there with her grand chickens in her own coup some late years ago was Wynn Martens. She is the Past Master of all such matters as this.
My father a hundred years ago decided that we should have chickens up on Fifth Street. We did, but he could not bear to kill them for Sunday dinner and assigned the murderous job to me, his obedient twelve year old son. I never quite got over the spectacle of the headless chicken running all over the place, spattering its blood all the way– for me to run down and finish off in the scalding water. What a way to live!
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