Bicycle Sport Shop in conjunction with Edible Austin magazine is producing an Urban Farm Bicyle Tour to kick off Edible Austin Eat Local Week.

Cyclists will depart from three starting locations: Downtown Farmer’s Market, Sunset Valley Market, and the BSS South location.  Lead by special guests, the Austin Flyers Women’s Cycling Team, cyclists will follow route maps guiding them to several local farms in East Austin including Boggy Creek Farm, Rain Lily Farm, with an optional route extension to Hands of the Earth Farm, site of the Urban Roots Youth Launch farm.

There will also be stop at the Edible Austin Tea Party, hosted at Zhi Tea Gallery, another Eat Local Week featured event, coinciding with the Tour.  In addition to directions and maps of the Tour routes, maps will be available that provide route directions to additional area farms, markets, and community gardens via bus and bike or a combination of both. Farms will have active markets at their sites along with farm tours, hen house tours, and a variety of hands on activities, and samplings.

All proceeds will go to Urban Roots, a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture as a means to effect lasting change for youth participants and nourishes East Austin residents who have limited access to healthy foods. In addition, the tour will bring awareness to sustainable food practices, the benefits of eating locally produced foods, and alternative transportation. Prizes, including a cruiser model bicycle outfitted for market shopping, will be drawn from participants completed route cards.

The Main Event send off is 10 a.m. from the Downtown Market; 9 a.m. from Bicycle Sport Shop South Lamar, and 9:30am from Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market.*

Register for the event here.

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