Gardeners have been anxiously awaiting the time when they can send in their postcards for a chance to buy the much coveted “Zoo Doo” or “Bedspread” composts from the Woodland Park Zoo.

A steaming pile of Zoo Doo. Photo courtesy Woodland Park Zoo.

Well, the time is now. Send in a postcard from Sept. 1-23 to request your compost (you can request both Zoo Doo and Bedspread, but separate postcards are required and only one postcard per person is eligible for each drawing). Entry cards will be selected randomly for as many entrants possible. “Dr. Doo” will contact the lucky drawn entries only.

Send a standard postcard to Dr. Doo, Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., Seattle, WA 98103. Include the following information:
-Name
-Day and evening phone numbers
-Preference: Zoo Doo or Bedspread
-Amount of Zoo Doo or Bedspread you’d like to purchase (anything from a garbage bag to a full-size, pick-up truck load)
-Weekday or weekend preference for pick-up

Pick-up dates for Zoo Doo or Bedspread begin Oct. 1 and end on Oct. 17. Winners load their own compost, but Dr. Doo will provide shovels. Costs: pick-up truck 8×4 bed - $60; 6×4 bed – $45; 6×3 bed - $35. Limit one full truck per person. Garbage cans: $8 to $10 depending on size; bags $4 to $6 depending on size. Two-gallon and pint-sized buckets are available anytime at the ZooStores for $14.95 and $4.95, respectively.

The Woodland Park Zoo’s Spring Fecal Fest is almost here. Register for your chance to win some prized zoo animal poo to spread on your garden or yard.

Photo by Ryan Hawk, Woodland Park Zoo.

Zoo Doo is the most exotic and highly prized compost in the Pacific Northwest, perfect for vegetables and annuals, composed of exotic species feces contributed by the zoo’s non-primate herbivores. Bedspread, the zoo’s premium composted mulch, is like Zoo Doo but with higher amounts of wood chips and sawdust. It’s the perfect mulch for perennial beds and woody landscapes such as native gardens, rose beds, shrubs, tree rings or pathways.

For a chance to purchase Zoo Doo or Bedspread, send in a postcard from March 1 through March 18 only. You can enter both the Zoo Doo and Bedspread drawings, but separate postcards are required. For Zoo Doo, mark your postcard “Zoo Doo.” For Bedspread, mark your postcard “B.S.” Entry cards will be selected randomly for as many entrants possible. Dr. Doo will contact the lucky drawn entries only.

Pick-up dates for Zoo Doo or Bedspread begin April 8 through April 24. The lucky winners load the compost, using shovels provided by the zoo.

To enter the random drawing, send one postcard per person (except if you’re wanting both Zoo Doo or Bedspread) to Dr. Doo, Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., Seattle, WA 98103.

Your postcard must include: your name, day and evening phone numbers, whether you want Zoo Doo or Bedspread, how much you want (anything from a garbage bag to a full-size, pick-up truck load), and whether you prefer weekday or weekend for pick-up.

Zoo Doo and Bedspread prices are: pick-up truck with 8×4 bed – $60; 6×4 bed – $45; 6×3 bed – $35. Limit one full truck per person. Garbage cans – $8 to $10 depending on size; bags – $4 to $6 depending on size. Two-gallon and pint-sized buckets are available anytime at the ZooStore for $14.95 and $4.95, respectively.

For more information, call the Poop Line at 206-625-POOP or visit the zoo’s website.

It’s time once again for the Woodland Park Zoo’s Fall Fecal Fest, where gardeners hope to be the few lucky ones able to purchase the zoo’s prized Zoo Doo or Bedspread.

Photo by Ryan Hawk, Woodland Park Zoo.

Zoo Doo is the most exotic and highly prized compost in the Pacific Northwest, composed of exotic species feces contributed by the zoo’s non-primate herbivores. It’s perfect for vegetables and annuals. Bedspread, the zoo’s premium composted mulch, is like Zoo Doo but with higher amounts of wood chips and sawdust. It’s the perfect mulch for perennial beds and woody landscapes such as native gardens, rose beds, shrubs, tree rings or pathways.

To have a chance at the doo, send in a postcard between Sept. 1-19; just one postcard for each drawing. For Zoo Doo, mark your postcard “Zoo Doo.” For Bedspread, mark your postcard “B.S.” Entry cards will be selected randomly for as many entrants possible. The Zoo’s “Dr. Doo” will contact the lucky drawn entries only.

Send a standard postcard to:
Dr. Doo
Woodland Park Zoo
601 N. 59th St.
Seattle, WA 98103.

Include the following information:

• Name
• Day and evening phone numbers
• Preference: Zoo Doo or Bedspread
• Amount of Zoo Doo or Bedspread you’d like to purchase (anything from a garbage bag to a full-size, pick-up truck load)
• Weekday or weekend preference for pick-up

The cost for Zoo Doo and Bedspread: Pick-up truck 8×4 bed: $60; 6×4 bed: $45; 6×3 bed: $35. Limit one full truck per person. Garbage cans: $8 to $10 depending on size; bags: $4 to $6 depending on size. Two-gallon and pint-sized buckets are available anytime at the ZooStore for $14.95 and $4.95, respectively.

Pick-up dates for Zoo Doo or Bedspread are Oct. 2-16. The zoo provides the shovels and the lucky winners load their compost.

Woodland Park Zoo announces its Fall Fecal Fest, when local gardeners go crazy for animal waste to fertilize their gardens. Here’s a pile of the steaming Zoo Doo, as it’s called (photo by Ryan Hawk, WPZ):

Because of contaminants found in earlier piles (it’s since been given a clean, ahem, bill of health), there’s less Zoo Doo this fall than usual, so the usual lottery process will be even more competitive.

You can also buy Bedspread, a composted mulch made from the manures and bedding of the zoo’s non-primate herbivores.

Bedspread is like Zoo Doo but contains higher amounts of wood chips and sawdust. It is excellent fertile mulch for perennial beds and woody landscapes such as native gardens, rose beds, shrubs, tree rings or pathways, and is an ideal mulch and soil builder for Northwest gardens.

If you want the chance to purchase Zoo Doo or Bedspread, send a postcard from Sept. 11-25 to: Zoo Doo, Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., Seattle, WA 98103. Include the following information: name, day/evening phone numbers, whether you’d prefer Zoo Doo or Bedspread; how much you’d like to buy (anything from a garbage bag to a full-size pick-up truck load); and whether you prefer weekday or weekend pick-up. (Only one postcard per person allowed.)

Postcards will be randomly selected and Dr. Doo will contact only the lucky winners. Pick-up dates are Oct. 9-25. You’ll have to load the compost yourself, but the zoo will provide shovels.

Cost for either Zoo Doo or Bedspread:

• Pick-up truck 8×4 bed: $60
• 6×4 bed: $45
• 6×3 bed: $35
• Garbage cans: $8 to $10
• Bags: $4 to $6 depending on size.
• Two-gallon and pint-sized buckets are available in the ZooStore for $14.95 and $4.95, respectively.

For more information, call the poop line at 206-625-POOP or visit the zoo’s website.