Like healthy food, gardening, sustainability, your family and your planet?

If you like healthy food, gardening, sustainability, YOUR FAMILY and YOUR PLANET come to GardenFest!

Food Revolution Day will be at GardenFest on 4th May. GardenFest at New Canaan Nature Center is an incredible volunteer organized event, promoting healthy eating, growing your own food, food education and environmentalism. 

Food Revolution Day will have a table promoting healthy eating. Activities will include: Take the Pledge (parents and kids, sign the pledge board, to commit to healthy eating), Spoon Collage (decorate a food revolution spoon) and Coloring Competition for the little ones. Drop by to find out more about Food Revolution Day. 

To find out more and join the Food Revolution visit: https://www.facebook.com/NewCanaanFoodRevolution?ref=hl

Here’s more from the NCNC website about the event... 
GARDENFEST
Saturday, May 4
10:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Free event, open to the public. NCNC Members 9:30 A.M. PRE-SALE

PLANT SALE Our featured planters this year include a Kitchen Herb Planter, a Luscious Lettuce Pot, a Get Your Greens Pot, an Eat Your Peas Planter and a Spicy Salsa Planter. In addition, we will feature aRainbow of Tomatoes with at least 14 varieties of organic heirloom tomatoes that you surely won’t find anywhere else. There will be many flowers available for purchase and a variety of experts available to answer all your planting questions.
“This will be a fantastic community event sure to appeal to a wide variety of area residents” said Amy Carpi, GardenFest co-chair and NCNC Preschool parent. Our preschoolers have been busy all spring helping to grow beautiful seedlings and gardener or not, everyone will have a great time. WORKSHOPS

• School Food: Best Practices with Amy Kalafa, co-founder of  Two Angry Moms together with Bruce Gluck, Director of School Food for New Canaan
• Easy Organic Lawn Care and Why It’s Important with Chip Osborne of Osborne Organics together with the local non-profit group Pesicide-Free New Canaan
• Easy Raised Bed Gardens
• Composting with Worms
• Keeping Backyard Chickens