Hmm... It's interesting you heard that. I thought I heard that as long as you could get enough people in a close enough cluster, you could host too. But maybe it was because this year was sponsored by Slow Food South Bay?
In any case, I encourage an East Bay tour! It seems there are plenty of people with chickens out that way!
We contacted the Organizer and it is apparently a Peninsula and San Jose tour. We thought we were in Silicon Valley (my husband and I both are engineers by training - I'm software, he is both hardware and software), but apparently the term actually only covers the west side and San Jose.
So, I guess I'm putting out a call for coops on this side of the pond.