Raise the Coop

Help The Cooks Garden Venice raise money to repair the chicken's coop. The coop is home to over thirty birds, including two ducks and two turkeys. Each day the flock brings joy to guests as they discover a flock of birds in an urban farm nestled in the busy shopping district of Abbot Kinney. We love witnessing the joy on people's faces as they hear a cluck of a chicken or a rooster's crow and turn their heads to discover our birds.

The flock all live happily in our urban garden that has been home to rescued birds for over eight years. We take on rescues when we can - from flock owners who can no longer support their flock and neighborhood rescues brought in by mindful neighbors. We never cull our birds, meaning they live their entire natural life with us even as they stop producing eggs. At the moment, only about a third of our flock is laying eggs; the rest are living happily in our urban oasis.

The garden is still struggling to recover from the loss of business that COVID-19 pandemic has brought. The flock's home desperately needs some upgrades that we cannot afford. We need to replace all the chickenwire on the run with more durable and pest-proof hardware cloth and create a predator skirt around the entire coop and run to keep burrowing animals like rats from entering the flock's space. We also need to replace some of the cladding on the coop that has started to degrade and add more support to the structure of the chicken run so that we can adequately tack up the new hardware cloth.

These upgrades are a significant undertaking for us and we appreciate any support you can offer. We know that the flock brings such joy to the community and we hope to keep the flock here and safe for you all to enjoy for many years to come.