Contact: Cary Oshins
610-683-1415
Green Up Your Festival!
Collecting and Composting Food Scraps at a Special Event
Kutztown, PA - Learn how festival organizers are going beyond bottles =
and cans to collect and recycle organic wastes, and experience it first =
hand at the same time! This 3-session workshop will be held on =
Saturday, August 2nd from 8:30 to 5 p.m. at the Rodale Institute =
Experimental Farm near Kutztown, Pennsylvania (about an hour north of =
Philadelphia).
Attendees will learn all aspects of festival composting, from what to =
collect and how to collect it, to how do you compost it (both on and off =
site). The speakers, from Maine, New York and Pennsylvania have 10 =
years combined experience planning and implementing food scrap =
collection at events as varied as a music festival, a country fair and =
an Earth Day celebration.
An exciting aspect of this workshop is that it will be held in =
conjunction with the Rodale Institute's GardenFest! '97. This is our =
annual celebration of organic gardening, food and health. Lectures will =
be given by over twenty noted garden, nutrition and culinary specialists =
including featured speaker, John Jeavons, master gardener, ecologist, =
and Director of Ecology Action. Twenty major garden specialty and =
environmentally focused companies will exhibit and sell their products. =
The Farm market will include local organic growers and small specialty =
food businesses. Participants in Green Up Your Festival Workshop will =
have ample opportunity to enjoy the festival.
The cost for this unique workshop is only $125, which includes admission =
to GardenFest! '97. Space is limited, so register early. Call =
610-683-1400 to receive registration and information materials.
Rodale Institute works with people worldwide to achieve a regenerative =
food system that renews environmental and human health. It is a =
non-profit, publicly supported charity under sections 501(c)3 and =
509(a)2 of the IRS code.