BRATTLEBORO-The Rich Earth Palooza, a free celebration of Brattleboro's local food cycles, will be held on Saturday, July 6, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Winston Prouty campus, 209 Austine Drive. The Palooza will be an afternoon filled with fun and learning about how food is grown, composted, and recycled.
Attendees can engage with local organizations who advance creative approaches to sustainable and just food systems, with exhibits and activity stations hosted by Grateful Greens microgreens, Food Cycle Coalition, Town of Brattleboro Sustainability, Brooks Memorial Library's Library of Things, Foodworks, Edible Brattleboro, the Windham Solid Waste Management District, Ben's Bins Vermicomposting, and Toilets for People.
The event will feature a celebration of the Rich Earth Institute's innovative community-scale peecycling program and the 240 local participants who generously donate their liquid gold (urine) to this initiative. This program reclaims human urine to provide local farms with a source of sustainable fertilizer, while mitigating nutrient pollution in the Connecticut River watershed.
The event will feature a "Piss-Off Hall of Fame" station, honoring the community's top urine donors.
At 2 p.m., Julia Cavicchi, Rich Earth's education director, will lead a "Urine My Garden" workshop, in which participants can learn how to implement home-scale peecycling to grow abundant gardens.
Then at 3 p.m., Jay Bailey of Fair Winds Farm will perform songs of life and farming.
Event attendees can cycle their way to a treat with the Bellows Falls Community Bike Project's smoothie station. Additionally, Dosa Kitchen will be adjacent to the palooza, offering their South Indian soul food.
For more information, contact Cavicchi at julia@richearthinstitute.org, or visit richearthinstitute.org.
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