A community-wide weekend festival of engaging, Earth-friendly events

The EcoNatick organizing team is planting the seeds for another two-day, multi-location celebration where residents, families, community groups, and local organizations will create opportunities for all to get outside, interact, learn, and do something good for the Earth, its living things, and each other.

As part of this celebration, you can observe Earth Day by:

• Enjoying a hike, nature walk, or outdoor meditation

• Check out an electric vehicle at the EV Petting Zoo

• Biking or paddling somewhere new

• Helping with a trail, park, or school yard cleanup

• Planting a tree

• Learning about native plant gardening or lawn care/replacement

• Repairing (rather than replacing) a broken item at the Repair Cafe

• Enjoy the Farmer’s Market, and more!

The organizing team expects to offer at least 25 events, spread around town and scheduled throughout the weekend.  Details available at EcoNatick.org, events continue to be added through April 15.

Visit the “Earth Friendly Fair” (on the Natick Town Common, Saturday, May 2, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.): Meet the experts, take home information on a variety of earth-friendly topics, and enjoy some special family-friendly events - all following our theme: “Make a Shift, give the Earth a Gift. Find the Joy!”

Every year we rely on volunteers to make this happen -  by hosting a variety of hands-on, educational and fun activities. Do you know of a company or group that should join us? Would you like to join us? Please, we invite you to get creative! Garden tours, energy equipment show-offs, trail clean-ups, meditative walks – all ideas are welcome! Reach out through our website.

“Earth Day provides an occasion to deliberately connect with our home planet in many meaningful ways, in our own homes, backyards, and the community spaces of our town,” said Debby Marion, an EcoNatick volunteer. “Let’s get outside to learn new ways to appreciate and sustain the Earth’s web of life.”

Find out more about Earth Day All Around Natick by visiting EcoNatick.org.