Mother Earth News Fair
Mother Earth News Fair. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Line On Agriculture.
I envision myself as bit of a DIYer, gardener, self-sufficient guy. I recycle just about everything, compost most everything else and am getting the garden ready for another year. If you fit that same bill or are thinking about it you should consider checking out the Mother Earth News Fair coming up in Puyallup, Washington. Andrew Perkins is the director of the fair which started last year in Pennsylvania.
PERKINS: The goal was to create a fun-filled, definitely a family oriented, sustainable lifestyle event that would feature dozens of practical hands-on demonstrations and workshops from the leading authorities on renewable energy, small scale agriculture, organic gardening, green building, green transportation and natural health.
In between the sessions, attendees can roam around and enjoy a wide array of vendors and entertainment plus local organic food and beverages. One of the highlights of the fair is a seed swap.
PERKINS: We had about 9000 people participate in the first one. We think the Puyallup one will be much bigger. We had a small footprint to start out with. It was a resort setting as opposed to a fairgrounds. There will be countless demonstrations on cheese-making, bee-keeping, building electric and wood burning cars, preserving and pickling food, baking bread, meat processing.
Mother Earth News has been around for more than 30 years helping folks realize a more sustainable lifestyle. Last year it was the fastest growing magazine anywhere.
PERKINS: And I think one of the reasons for that is there’s this sort of natural resurgence of building and establishing a more sustainable lifestyle and the fundamentals to that are empowering yourself to take care of yourself and not be dependent on necessarily buying all of your groceries from the grocery market every month for example. So that is what we are trying to do. We’re trying to equip people with those tools to do that through the vehicle of the Mother Earth News Fair.
Perkins talks about the fair being held June 4th and 5th at the Puyallup fairgrounds.
PERKINS: It’s an affordable way to enjoy a destination event, a full weekend packed with a broad range of workshops and demonstrations with the leading authorities across all these different subjects that we’ve talked about. Tickets are just $25 bucks for the entire weekend and we’ve got specials and discounts running all the time on our website. I think there’s just a real broad interest in this subject matter right now across all sorts of philosophies and political affiliations.
Log on to their website motherearthnewsfair.com for more information
That’s today’s Line On Agriculture. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
