Looking for EAGAN, MN residents interested in overturning the no-chicken ordinance.

[4-H chicken mom]

Hi and from Ohio. So glad you joined.

 

[kkberna]

Please pass this along--GREAT NEWS!!! (For Minnesota cities looking to overturn ordinances)

SO.....I just found some VERY interesting and AWESOME NEWS! The State of Minnesota has what they call a GreenStep Cities program. It's a program cities can voluntarily join and it's a collection of environmental Best Practices and when a city joins they are promising to follow these best practices--implement and support them. Eagan, as of last year, joined the program. When I searched the site, I found the following: (check out letter B in particular!)

http://greenstep.pca.state.mn.us/bestPracticesDetail_actions.cfm?bpid=26&aid=877


Best Practice Action 4 [ 1 2 3 4 ] [all actions]

Conduct at least one of the following campaigns to measurably increase:


a. Purchase of food with at least one of the following attributes -- local, Minnesota-grown, organic, humanely raised, grown by fairly compensated growers.
b. Backyard gardening / chickens.
c. Institutional buying of local foods by schools, hospitals/nursing homes, restaurants and hotels, or grocery stores.
d.
Sale of local food in markets and restaurants.

 

[ann0792]

How strict is the Eagan ordinance? Some people have fairly large yards.

 

[CarlaS]

Welcome to BYC! I also live in Minnesota. Good Luck!

 

[kkberna]

We won our petition to overturn the ordinance in Eagan, MN! Should be official in about 30 days when the final ordinance is presented at a city council meeting. For information, please see our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/eaganmn.backyardchickens

 

[jbirds2012]

 

[kkberna]

Thanks!

 

[sumi]

That's wonderful! Congratulations

 

[flewdacoop]

congrats now go out and get some chickens because im out of eggs..lol

 

[Red Barn Farms]

Welcome to BYC! and ...Congratulations!