Join Hunger Mountain Coop on Friday, April 22nd for our annual community Earth Day celebration.
We'll have kids activities including face painting and a solar powered bouncy house, a book and clothing swap, and more!

Outdoor Activities:
10am-1pm
Kids can enjoy free face painting by Shirley from Face Mania and have fun playing in the solar powered bouncy house provided by SunCommon!

10am-4pm
Bring your unwanted books to the book swap and exchange them for new ones. Also, new this year, you can bring your gently used, clean, spring and summer clothes to our first ever community clothing swap!

Get your bike tuned-up by an Onion River Sports mechanic and demo one of their commute bikes.

Recycle your old cell phones and all types of batteries at our recycling station with Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District, inside the book and clothing swap tent.

Meet Jen from Black Dirt Farm and learn all about their High Potency Worm Castings.

We'll also have a bunch of activities happening in our kids tent from 10am-4pm: Meet the salamanders from North Branch Nature Center. Plant seedlings at our kids gardening table! Kids can also make origami out of non-recyclable plastics and join Kellogg-Hubbard Library in writing poems about nature, listen to great stories, and enjoy other hands-on activities.

Inside Activities:
Workshop from 10-11:30am
Permaculture Perennials for Food and Medicine with Graham Unangst-Rufenacht and Aaron Guman. Held in The Coop's community room.

Vendors will be sampling products throughout the day!
10:30am-1:30pm Artesano vinegars
11:00am-2:00pm Runa

Workshop from 5-6pm
Living Tiny: A Conversation with Lisa Rochelle. Held in The Coop's community room. Sign up here!

Poem City event from 5-7pm
The host of VPR’s “Friday Night Jazz,” Reuben Jackson, will read his poetry in The Coop's Cafe, with live jazz by musicians Tom Morse and Jerome Monachino. There will also be a cheese and wine tasting, come end your evening with us!

All day long we will be offering:

● Lots of great raffles for everyone to enter, including a Runa bike, a fair trade basket full of produce, a $100 gift card to
The Coop, earth friendly prizes and more!

● 5% discount on purchases for Member-Owners! Not a Member? Join today at Customer Service for just $15.

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