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WACF Earth Day Festival

 

WACF Earth Day Festival

Love Nature?  Love butterflies?  Plan to join Chautauqua Wawasee for Earth Day at the Wawasee Area Conservancy (WACF).

We need your help!  Be sure to visit our interactive booth to learn how to help save the Monarch butterfly! Plan to learn from the butterfly lady herself, Cindy Gackenheimer, Flutterby Gardens, Claypool, Indiana as she shares about the metamorphosis of a butterfly, the Monarch migration pattern this year, and practical steps you can take to help the Monarch.

We have a very kid-friendly, hands-on learning experience where we’ll have a migration game attendees can play, a special craft that involves stamping the butterfly life cycle on a take-home canvas bag.  Take home some free pollinator seeds to plant, which encourage butterflies in your garden or landscape, and attract fluttering friends for years to come!

Please click HERE for a link to visit the WACF and learn more about this event.

 

When: Saturday, May 4th, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Where: Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation l  11586 IN-13, Syracuse, IN

Cost: FREE!

 

 

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WACF Earth Day

Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation’s Earth Day Festival-2023

Love Nature? Love butterflies? This is the topic to be explored at one session of the upcoming Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation’s Earth Day Festival on May 6th, 2023. WACF is organizing more than twenty educational, fun, hands-on programs and activities to be held outdoors at WACF Education Center south of Syracuse.

Plan to stop by the Chautauqua-Wawasee booth because they need your help to save the Monarch butterfly!

You will learn from the butterfly lady herself, Cindy Gackenheimer, Flutterby Gardens, Claypool, as she shares about the metamorphosis of a butterfly, the Monarch migration pattern this year, and practical steps you can take to help the Monarch. The booth will provide a “kid-friendly” hands-on learning
experience where participants can play a migration game. Also, a special craft is offered which involves stamping the butterfly life cycle on a take-home canvas bag, along with free pollinator seeds to plant which attracts butterflies to your garden or landscape for years to come.

Cost: Free
When: Saturday, May 6,  10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Where: Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation, located at 11586 IN-13, south of Syracuse.

Check back here, or on Facebook for updates, or feel free to give us a call at 574-377-7543.

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WACF Earth Day Event

Love Nature? Check out the Wawasee Area Conservation Foundation’s Earth Day Event!

Love Nature? A Chautauqua-Wawasee Program for Earth Day

Love nature?
How do you know it loves you back?

Chautauqua-Wawasee presented a unique program as part of WACF’s Earth Day celebration on April 30, bringing together voices focused on hope, harmony, and humility.

For the first time, Dani Tippman, Cliff Kindy, and John Edgerton collaborated to lead a series of sessions exploring humanity’s relationship with the natural world and our shared responsibility for its care.

Program Schedule

10:00–10:50 am | REMEMBRANCE
Water is life. Human and plant diversity make us stronger.
Facilitated by Dani Tippman

11:00–11:50 am | DIALOGUE
How can we face the challenges of our changing planet so that we and our children meet them with courage, empathy, and resilience?
Facilitated by Cliff Kindy

12:45–1:35 pm | EARTH STORIES
Stories exploring how each of us is needed in the web of life, and how harmony and mutual understanding support survival. Ancient wisdom now echoed by modern science.
Facilitated by John Edgerton

Participants also learned about Native American methods of plant diversification, organic farming techniques focused on water conservation and carbon-free practices, and ancient stories increasingly supported by modern science.

This program was free and open to the public.

Chautauqua-Wawasee also hosted a booth featuring Cindy Gackenheimer of Flutterby Gardens in Claypool, who shared information about Monarch butterflies and ways to attract them to home gardens. Free flower seeds were available.

Event Details

When:
WACF’s Earth Day
April 30, 10:00 am–2:00 pm

Where:
WACF Amphitheater

This event has concluded. Information is preserved as part of Chautauqua-Wawasee’s historical programming archive.

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