Hen-side the Beltline Tour D'Coop

On May 21, Robert and I (and Zoe too, Sam opted to Stay with his Gigi) were able to check out the Hen-side the Beltline Tour D'Coop in Raleigh http://www.tourdcoop.com/
This is an annual tour of urban chicken coops in the Raleigh area, that raises funds for Urban ministries of Wake County.  There were 19 coops on the tour, and we saw 10 of them!  Here are a few shots from the day:

This coop was made from all reused materials claimed from a farm scrap pile.

This coop was also built from reused materials, and the roof is slate salvaged from an orphanage in
Charlotte!

We saw some awesome gardens like this one:

This was my favorite house!  Huge veggie garden, flower and herb gardens, bees, mushroom logs, fruit trees, a zipline and a clay oven!

Here is the clay oven..we are soooo building one of these in the future!

And some beautiful chickens!

Zoe was feeding cherries to these Barred Rock hens!

  if you check out the website, they even offer a chicken keeping 101 class (I took the class last year) that is a very informative "must do" if you are thinking about keeping chickens.  We had a very fun day and we  will definitely be doing this tour again in the future.