Sustainability Fair
Wednesday August 7, 2013  4pm - 7pm (3 Hours)
Culinary / Wine

 manager@wolfvillefarmersmarket.ca
 902.697.3344

Its Farmers’ Market Week in Nova Scotia and to celebrate, the Wolfville Farmers’ Market is having a Sustainability Fair. Learn about sustainability initiatives and innovations being cultivated, discovered and used in the Valley. Come for your Market Supper and learn what practices and tools you can use to make sustainable lifestyle choices on your land, in your life and in your home through the speakers series and through meeting and talking with people in over ten organizations. There will be a ticket draw for prizes, a farm animal petting area outside the Market, $1 off Market Bags and lots of sustainable groceries and hand-made gifts thanks to 30 awesome vendors!

SUSTAINABILITY Participants:
Acadia Community Farm
Bullfrog Power
Centre for Small Farms
Efficiency NS
FarmWorks
Green Army Design
Greenways NS
Kids Action Program
Kieran Pathways Society
Kings 2050
Kings Transit Authority
TapRoot Farms
Valley Waste Resource Management

SUSTAINABILITY Ticket Draw Prizes:
Everyone who comes through the door gets three tickets to enter to win prizes of their choice from the following participants

Acadia Community Farm: (a box of veggies)
Efficiency NS (a prize basket)
FarmWorks (a gift certificate for one of the businesses FarmWorks supports)
Kieran Pathways Society (The Book The Pannier Companion)
Kings Transit Authority (transit tickets)
TapRoot Farms (a gift certificate for a 2-night stay at their rustic farmstay, Walden Camp)
Valley Waste Resource Management (a silver compost bucket)

On the Speakers Stage
CSA Talk (5:30-6:00): Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) and how producers and consumers can benefit from this alternative food system
Composting with Valley Waste Management (6:00-6:15) How to compost and what happens with your Municipal Compost
Efficiency NS (6:15-6:30): Efficiency NS programs that you can tap into as you renovate your homes
Sustainable Design with Will Laing of Green Army Design (6:30-7:00): sustainable design decisions that can be made around the house also talk about what small scale local energy production.

Kids Corner: Kids will be making piggy banks out of recycled containers.
Busker (5pm-7pm): Angela Riley

This Weeks Rotating Restaurant Booth: The Naked Crepe
This Weeks Rotating Wine Booth: Luckett’s Vineyards
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: Free
Poster
The DeWolfe Building
24 Elm Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia

 info@wolfvillefarmersmarket.ca
 902-697-3344

         

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