Feeling cooped up this winter? The Corvallis Environmental Center has a solution – visit your neighbors to see the variety of backyard chicken and duck coops popping up around town.

The 2^nd Annual Cooped Up in Corvallis tour is Sunday, March 7^th from 12-4 pm. Participants will learn how to design, build and maintain eight different coop styles – many made from recycled materials – and get tips for incorporating fowl into backyard gardens.

Last year, over 170 people visited eight families along the tour route. This year the tour will feature all new set-ups, including a farm-scale coop, seven hens named for jazz legends, and an 18-hen coop that doubles as a clubhouse.

The tour is sponsored by the CEC’s Edible Corvallis Initiative to increase home food production and help create a just and sustainable food system in the mid-Willamette Valley.

Tickets are $7 in advance, available at the Corvallis Environmental Center office and the First Alternative Co-op stores, or $10 on the day of the tour, available at the Coop Tour Headquarters, 3615 NW Polk Avenue. Participants receive a self-guided map with fun fowl-keeping facts.