The Care & Share Shoppes’ invite the community to their annual Green Fair to be held under a big tent in their parking lot on Saturday May 2, from 10am to 5pm. The Green Fair is an opportunity for the community to met local businesses who provide earth friendly services and products. This year, a special feature will be WHYY’s You Bet Your Garden host, Mike McGrath. He will be leading two informational sessions at noon and 2pm.
Sarah Bergin, Executive Director of the Care and Share Shoppes, explained the connection between thrift shops and the environment, “If you stop and think about it, thrift shops are all about recycling! We take recycling very seriously at the Care & Share. We are committed to the reusing of the products which are donated to us. If we do not sell them in our shoppes, we take extra steps to make sure they are responsibly recycled elsewhere.”
Mike McGrath’s enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge of chemical-free horticulture will provide a wonderful compliment to other businesses who will be promoting their earth friendly products and services as well as stewardship of the earth’s resources at our event. Mike’s noon session is “Seven Secrets of Successful Organic Gardeners”, and at 2pm, “Organic Answers to your Toughest Garden Questions”.
Other vendors who are participating are: Annie’s Rag Rugs, recycling cotton and wool to make rugs; Miller Trailer Sales, promoting a method of vacationing that is environmentally conscious, economical and fun; Montgomeryville Cycle, featuring their Vectrix Electric Scooters; Reichman Enterprises, candles from vegetable waxes; Skippack Creek Farm, featuring organic produce and all natural soap; Deer Run Daylily Gardens, organic daylilys and products; Wash Tyme, recycled vegetable oil to make bio-diesel and the byproduct Gylcerin is then used to make soap; Ten Thousand Villages, promoting fair trade products; and Ethos Healthy Paints, an ecofriendly paint store and contractor.
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