31 Mar Funky Chicken Coop Tour’s 2014 Ultimate Scavenger Hunt for the Sustainable Egg
• Where can you find the most sustainable egg in Austin? The Ultimate Scavenger Hunt for the Sustainable Egg is designed to help you collect the information you need to put food gardens and backyard poultry for eggs in your own backyard. Explore public places with camera in hand. Participate in our chicken eggstravaganza of events and share your photo answers online. We hope you'll discover how you can make it happen in your own piece of Austin.
• There will be four weekend events over 21 days. Each weekend features an information packed event, covering backyard poultry and organic food gardens, sustainable policy in Austin, and Austin friendly ways to get started. Participate in one week or all four events. You can pick up mini scavenger hunt lists at each event.
• The Ultimate Scavenger Hunt for the Sustainable Egg uncovers the rewards of backyard poultry and organic food gardens. Discover the benefits of locally grown food. Find the easiest backyard foods to produce in Austin. Find out what "sustainable" means when it comes to eggs and gardens. Compost and recycle and create food at the same time. Learn about helpful City of Austin programs and ordinances to guide your efforts, and local resources to make it happen now.
• RULES: Take at least 12 Austin style photos finds that show what you've found on your hunt for local poultry, eggs, coops, vegetable gardens, composting, and recycling that you can do in your own backyard. The top photo series wins a $50 cash prize courtesy of the Brazos Valley Poultry Club. Submit the photo story of your personal Ultimate Scavenger Hunt for the Sustainable Egg to hunt@austincooptour.org.
Watch for more details on the weekly scavenger hunt. Make sure to get your photos for the Scavenger Hunt in by 4/23.
Other contest notes:
Photos must have been taken by the person submitting the entry and not have any copyrights or pending ownership of the photos being submitted.
RELEASE AGREEMENT Submission of photographs implies acceptance of the following terms: Entrants in the FCCT Ultimate Scavenger Hunt Photo Contest retain all copyrights and other equivalent rights to their entered photographs. Entrants give Urban Poultry Association of Texas, Inc. the right to reproduce and publish their photographs in advertising to promote the Funky Chicken Coop Tour and other poultry education events. In all cases where such photographs are used, Entrants give Urban Poultry Association of Texas, Inc. the right to do so without obtaining the photographer’s further prior permission and without offering any compensation in any form.
Week I – March 29, 2014
"A Live Study in Chicken Breeds"
Milwood Branch – Austin Public Library
12500 Amherst Drive, Austin, TX 78727
• Over a dozen breeds of chickens will be on display, with an educational presentation by each breeder/owner, courtesy of the Brazos Valley Poultry Club.
WEEK II – April 5, 2014
"Healthy Local Living – Discover your own local Austin"
Callahan's General Store
501 U.S 183, Austin, TX 78741
• Take a trip to Callahan's for an in store scavenger hunt! There will be a 2014 Funky Chicken Coop Tour prize package plus an exciting in store prize for the winning set of photos for this mini-hunt!!
WEEK III – April 12, 2014
"Sustainable Austin – Helping Things Grow in Your Own Back Yard"
Windsor Park Branch – Austin Public Library
5833 Westminster Drive
Austin, TX 78723
• Join Heather-Nicole Hoffman of Compost Coalition, and the librarians at Windsor Park Branch, and learn how to make Austin's zero waste goals happen, with a little help from you and your chickens.
• Composting 101 – an introduction to composting, followed by hands-on workshops to build a compost system for you.
WEEK IV – "The" EVENT – April 19 – 10AM-4PM: 2014 (KICK-OFF CLASS BEGINS AT 8:30 AM)
"Sixth Annual Funky Chicken Coop Tour and Bicycle Tour de Funky Chickens"
Sunshine Community Gardens, 4814 Sunshine Drive, Austin, TX 78756
• The Ultimate Scavenger Hunt for the Sustainable Egg culminates after 21 days incubation at Sunshine Community Gardens, the headquarters for the 6th annual Funky Chicken Coop Tour and starting point for the Bicycle Tour de Funky Chickens. Ride the tour, and enjoy the free educational booths at the Gardens. There will be exhibition poultry, a chicken corral, chicken story time, and free educational displays and presentations throughout the day. Ready for some fresh egg of your own? Happy hunting!
Scavenger Hunt List of Photo Ideas:
a pretty colored Easter egg
a chicken in the library
a chicken and a book
a chicken with a pretty tail
a chicken worth a second look
a fancy chicken on display
a chicken and a bale of hay
a live chicken at the store
a latch on the coop door
a pretty duck that floats
a baby chick a miniature goat
a hammer and a staple gun
a rooster statue, a pretty sun
a pallet and a chicken pen
a nesting box with just one hen
a vegetable growing not in a row
a bicycle with lights that glow
a rich and ready compost pile
a homemade path, a garden aisle
a recycled treasure, all Austin style!
Can't wait to see Austin through your mind's eyes!
Check out our eggstravaganza of events at http://www.austineconet.wpengine.com/blog/raising-chickens-eggstravaganza
INQUIRIES
For press inquiries, please contact:
Ami Hooper
pr@austincooptour.org
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