City Chicken Coop Tour 2010

Thank you to all of this year's hosts, guests, volunteers and chickens! See photos of the tour...

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Did you know that Seattle has become known as a world-class city for chickens and urban livestock? Come see for yourself!

This is your chance to visit folks who are keeping chickens and other urban livestock, right here in the city of Seattle. On July 10, you can take a look at how people are incorporating animals into their home landscape.

In this self-guided tour in neighborhoods throughout Seattle, you will see simple coops built in an afternoon and elaborate houses that took weeks of planning and building. Learn from seeing what your neighbors are doing. Ask questions about coop building  techniques and materials, daily chores,

managing waste and any other questions you have about keeping chickens or urban livestock. 

You will see a wide variety of accommodations, variously described as: cottage, craftsman, castle, shed, mobile, two-storied and ark. The chickens include many different varieties including Buff Orpingtons, Easter Eggers, Cuckoo Marans, Golden Laced Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red, Black Autralorp, Araucana, Delaware, Barred Rock and Bantams.  Besides chickens and coops, you will also have the opportunity to see other urban livestock including mini dairy goats, honey bees and ducks. Other creative trappings of modern Seattle urban homesteads include productive organic gardens, fruit orchards, rain barrels, a solar oven, green building and more. 

This tour might be the inspiration you need to build your dream coop or begin a fun and rewarding new hobby! You will enjoy seeing the many creative arrangements people have developed in their urban yards and homesteads, asking questions from local experts, meeting other like minded folks, and scheming about ideas you can try at home. 

West Seattle Special

Can't decide between going on the Coop Tour and the Edible Garden Tour of West Seattle? For $15 you can stay in West Seattle and see both! Visit just the West Seattle coops and also the West Seattle Edible Garden Tour. Find out more at the website of Community Harvest of SW Seattle: http://gleanit.org/tour.html.

Buy a Map

Each map allows a family or four individuals to participate on this self-guided tour. You are welcome to visit all 29 sites, or tour by neighborhood: North, Central, SE or SW Seattle. Online map sales have ended.  Purchase tickets from any of these five businesses:

• Walt's Organic Fertilizer Co - 1528 NW Leary Way, Seattle, WA 98107, 10a.m.–6 p.m. (4pm on Saturday’s)
• Central Co-op’s Madison Market in Capitol Hill - 1600 East Madison St. 98122, 7 a.m-11 p.m.
• City Peoples Mercantile -  5440 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 9a.m.-6 p.m.   
• City People’s Garden Store -  2939 E. Madison St, Seattle, WA 98122, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Next to Nature - 4543 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116, 9 a.m.–9 p.m.   
   

Tues.-Sat., July 6-9 you can purchase tickets at the Seattle Tilth office at the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 120), 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday, July 10.

Online map sales have ended. If you purchased your map online, you will receive it in the mail by Friday, June 9. If you do not receive your map in time or have questions about the tour, e-mail elaineboyd@seattletilth.org or call (206) 633-0451 ext. 101

Sneak Peak

A big thank you to all of our wonderful hosts!