PLANET : HOME Sustainable Living Festival, an Urban Country Fair

July 21st is the date for Sustainable Northeast Seattle's 3rd annual Planet Home sustainable living festival, an urban country fair!
This year we'll be featuring some great local bands playing live music, tasty local food, fun games for kids and adults, and interactive learning opportunities.
Come meet more of your neighbors and play with your family and friends.

Some specific things you can look forward to experiencing and learning about:

Solar cooking (bring your cookers you'd like to show off or practice with to add to the display)

Produce and plant swap (Bring home-made or home-grown items to barter)

Leave-One-Take-One share table (bring items for gifting)

Tool sharpening (bring your dull tools)

"Stone soup" salad and fruit salad (bring potluck salad and/or fruit items to share. We'll keep adding ingredients as they show up!)

Tool donation station for the new NE Seattle Tool Library (bring electric or hand-powered tools you'd like to share)

Sustainable food prepared by Outside the Box / Cata Catering food company (Paleo beef chili, curry chicken/curry veg and coconut cardamom cauliflower rice)

DIY solar hot water systems

Alternative currencies / Fourth Corner Exchange

Sun jam demonstration

Local watershed model

Eco-jeopardy

Materials salvaging and repurposing

Seed bombs

Healing salve for cuts, scrapes, and burns workshop

Cargo bikes

Emergency Preparedness

Cake Walk

Rabbits

Home-made goods

Tug-o-war and bag toss games, sack races

Cedar lotion bars workshop

Goats!

DIY weatherization and insulation

Polyhedra building with magnets

Energy retrofit home tour

Slow motion pie-eating contest

Gardening Q&A booth

Electric cars

Art projects table for kids

Radical Mycology

Cascadian Edible Landscapes

Live local music from Klez Chaos, Podorythmie, and Leo Brodie!

and much more!

Scheduled activities (other events run all day or we're still deciding exact times):

11-12, 2-3 DIY Affordable and trouble free solar hot water systems

11-12 Rain Gardens with Loralee Wenger

12-1 Remodeling for Resilience: Learn from a case-study example by the homeowner how to remodel your home for efficiency, health and resilience. Tour included.

1-2 Cedar Lotion Bars workshop

3-4 Fungus Among Us with Radical Mycology

4-5 Healing Salve from Common Plants workshop

1-2 Musical entertainment by Leo Brodie

2-3 Klezmer music by Klez Chaos

3-4 French Canadian steps and tunes by Podorythmie

Check back here closer to the date for more details. We will update this page as we finalize our schedule.

** We still need volunteers and have some time/space open for educators and musicians. Let us know if you'd like to help out or know someone who might!
Contact: susneseattle@gmail.com

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