For more information and event updates visit these websites: Bicycle Sport Shop and Edible Austin and Sustainable Food Center

Discover Austin’s local food-producing gems on a family-friendly bicycle tour, including stops at urban farms, school and community gardens and more—featuring farm tours, sampling local food products and fabulous prizes, including a fully-outfitted cruiser bicycle.
10:00 AM 10 mile: Leaves from the Downtown Austin Farmers Market, 4th and Guadalupe at 10 a.m. immediately following the Mayor’s proclamation. This is a Family Friendly route along Town Lake Trail and City Bike Lanes. (site of the official launch of Eat Local Week)
9:30 AM 14 mile: Leaves from Bicycle Sport Shop, 517 S. Lamar to the downtown Market start. This is a Family Friendly route for those wanting to add a few extra miles. Route joins those leaving from the Downtown Market.
9:00 AM 24 mile: Leaves from the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market, 3200 Jones Rd. This route is for riders with some road riding experience. Includes 10 additional miles (round trip) on city roads and bike lanes. (heading directly to Boggy Creek Farm)
There will be an optional 4 Mile route extension taking riders to the Hand of the Earth Farm, the location of the Urban Roots YouthLaunch farm.
The Urban Farm Bicycle Tour is a featured event of Edible Austin Eat Local Week, December 5–12, a week long invitation to Central Texans to explore and celebrate the abundance of local food by eating out and shopping at participating area restaurants and markets, and to raise money for Urban Roots YouthLaunch, a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture to effect lasting change for youth 14-18 years old, and to nourish East Austin residents who have limited access to healthy foods.