Whole Foods Bag Credit Benefits Park Hill School Chickens
If you shop at the Cherry Creek Whole Foods between now and mid-January and bring your own bags, the bag credit will go to the Park Hill Chicken Co-op, which maintains the chicken coop in the garden at Park Hill Elementary School. The co-op comprises about 18 families from the school and neighborhood that collectively care for about ten chickens. The co-op’s mission is educate the school and community about food issues and to promote sustainable and self-sufficient living in an urban environment. Proceeds from the Whole Foods grant will go to building a perimeter fence around the coop (giving the hens a place to run and providing a buffer between the coop and the garden), building a secondary coop, and creating educational materials. For more information – or if you want to join! – email the co-op at parkhillchickens@gmail.com. You can also “like” the co-op on Facebook at facebook.com/parkhill.chickens.