Thursday, March 18, 2010 — It's been a strange week here in Millsberry, with surprising sightings (like moose hanging out in yellow taxicabs!) being relayed from every neighborhood.

Lucky for us, we ran into Millsberry Academy's Coach Danner, who explained, "The Grow Good Farms' cross-country road trip is holding a city-wide scavenger hunt here in Millsberry! That means practically anything—from palm trees to skyscrapers—is likely to pop up around town. In fact, I'm on my way downtown to look for a secret code right now."

Well, you heard it folks! It's time to put on your most comfortable shoes because you'll be pounding the pavement if you hope to get in on the fun! To start, you'll be looking for clues in the main and secondary articles, which will then direct you to different Millsberry locations. These locations will contain a lock and key icon that you'll need to roll over for a simple code. Returning to the barn, you'll enter that code to win items from the many different cities along the road trips cross-country route. You"ll also encounter codes that will "unlock" new crops to tend, to better spruce up your own Grow Good plot.

One citizen was seen pulling a super-tall skyscraper across the street...in a wagon! When he caught his breath, he stopped to chat for a moment, noting, "I was so excited to get the Willis Tower (the Chicago landmark formerly known as the Sears tower) for my home! Especially since I wasn't able to make it to Chicago on the Go-Good Bus! The tower is a whopping 110 stories high, and is the tallest building in the United States!"

When asked where he found this scavenger-hunt gem, the exhausted citizen just grinned and said, "That's a secret!"

Eager to start the hunt ourselves, some of us at the Gazette tried to figure out which new crops might be released first. Our informal survey revealed potatoes, grapes, coconuts, oranges, lemons and corn—to be among the most hoped-for.

So get your investigative skills in tune and use these two clues for your first two items:
"It's time to go rope-climbing!"
and
"What's spooky and purple?"

Clues for new items will be released each week in a Gazette article. Plus, all of the previously- released items will remain hidden, and you can find them by going to the Historical Society and clicking on Headline News Stories to get all of the old clues you may have missed.

So keep tending to your farm to help make those delicious pizzas, and to help Feeding America and the Grow Good cross-country road trip!