Leap for Green - The Food Edition
An Earth Day celebration for kids of all ages!
Date: Saturday, April 21, 2012
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Mercer Island Community and Event Center, 8236 SE 24th St., Mercer Island, WA 98040
This year’s focus will be on food, a critical issue for all sustainable communities. Food is a basic need; its production can replenish and contribute to the stewardship of our land or devastate it. Join us for fun activities, food, entertainment, and animals!
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Kids in the Kitchen with Chef Tom
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Cooping 101: 10:30am - 12:30pm in the Calkins Room
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Salmon Boy with Peter Donaldson - 11:00 am & 1:00 pm in the Mercer Room
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School Gardens with Rick Swan - 12:45 - 1:45 pm in the Calkins Room
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Bees, Bunnies, Goats and Chickens
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Plant your own Shoebox Garden
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Fresh and Local Food Vendors
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Other activities Indoors and Out!
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BYOB - Bring your own (water) bottle
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Participants are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the Mercer Island Food Pantry.
Looks whose coming to the fair!
Blue Sky Cleaners
Boistfort Valley Farm
Cedar Grove Composting
Cedar River Watershed
Crown S. Ranch
Edible plants with Rita Moore
Elementary School Science
First Lego League
Food Dehydrating with Elizabeth Hardisty
Heifer International
Island Books
JCC
Lettuce Link, Solid Ground
Master Gardeners & Plant Amnesty
MI Farmer's Market |
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MI Food Revolution
Music with Patrick & Friends
New Roots Organics
Oxbow Farms
PCC Farmland Trust
Puget Sound Energy
Republic Services/Allied Waste
"Salmon Boy" by Peter Donaldson
Seattle Beeworks
Seattle Farms Cooperative
Seattle Urban-Farming
Seattle Youth Garden Works, Seattle Tilth
TIMI
West Side Goat Girl |
Delicious fresh food options. Come to the fair with an appetite!
For more information, call 206.275.7609 or email miparks@mercergov.org
A huge "thank you" to our sponsors!
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