Jennifer Murtoff, of Broadview, shows off a chicken on Saturday, July 29, 2017 during the 6th annual Edible Garden Tour in Oak Park. Murtoff is a consultant for Home to Roost, a company that helps Chicagoland area residents raise chickens. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Jill Niewoehner, of Oak Park, shows the different edible plants she grows at her home during Edible Garden Tour as well as he eggs that her chickens lay. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Jill Niewoehner, of Oak Park, shows the different edible plants she grows at her home during Edible Garden Tour as well as he eggs that her chickens lay. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Red Schmitt, left, of Chicago, and Evie Tiemann, of Oak Park, check out the different plants growing on Saturday, July 29, during the 6th annual Edible Garden Tour in Oak Park. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Kristen Hollinden, left, talks about one of her chickens to Laura Knitt, of Oak Park on Saturday, July 29, during the 6th annual Edible Garden Tour in Oak Park. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
From left, Evie Tiemann, of Oak Park, Rose Darosa and Jill Johnson, both of Chicago, look over different gardening options for mushrooms. The Edible Garden Tour, 6th Annual, sponsored by Sugar Beet Food Co-op, highlighted examples of urban agriculture in Oak Park, River Forest and Austin. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Mary McDonald, left, of Crosby, Texas and her granddaughter Allison Muscolino, of Chicago, pet a chicken on Saturday, July 29, during the 6th annual Edible Garden Tour in Oak Park. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Participants of the walk check out chickens in a backyard on Saturday, July 29, during the 6th annual Edible Garden Tour in Oak Park. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Jennifer Murtoff, of Broadview, talks with participants about the importance of having chickens and how to properly raise them in an urban area on Saturday, July 29, during the 6th annual Edible Garden Tour in Oak Park.
Jennifer Murtoff, of Broadview, shows off a chicken on Saturday, July 29, 2017 during the 6th annual Edible Garden Tour in Oak Park.Murtoff is a consultant for Home to Roost, a company that helps Chicagoland area residents raise chickens.