Friday, February 22, 2008

Welcome to Free Range Greensboro!

If you're interested in supporting our fight for urban chickens in Greensboro, you've come to the right place!

So far... We've appeared on WFMY News 2 and Ed Cone's Super Blog. We've conducted interviews and posed for pictures with the News & Record and Yes! Weekly. Tomorrow, we'll be chilling with the news crew from News 14 Carolina (Hi, Bob! Hi, Dan Eaton!).

We've received overwhelmingly favorable responses to our campaign. Lots of people have written to tell us that they have chickens, had chickens when they were younger, have friends with chickens, or would like to someday have chickens. We've been talking with the great people at Deep Roots Food Market--our friendly neighborhood co-op.

Whew! I have to say that when we first contacted Pricey Harrison (part state representative, part superhero), I never expected such a big response. I will be making several appearances next week to collect signatures for a petition we plan to take to the city council meeting on March 4th. In a head-to-toe chicken suit. Do you have any idea how hard it is to track down a decent chicken costume in this town? And can you imagine the crazy look Brian gave me when I suggested we get one for each of us?

Many humiliating photos to follow...

2 comments:

Jeanne Aaroe said...

Where do I sign?

Jeanne
jeanneaaroe@bellsouth.net

darlene s. hunt said...

We have almost 1 acre and have really seriously considered chickens. I thought I heard that it was OK. But I accidentally crossed your blog, so I gues I'm not very informed.

Where do I sign?