Earth-Friendly Fair (Town Common)
Summary: Meet, learn and play on the Town Common!
When: May 03, 2025
Time:13:00 - 17:00
Description
Our Theme: "MAKE A SHIFT, GIVE THE EARTH A GIFT!"
Explore more than 20 booths and tables, 9:00am to 1:00pm.
Pick up a PASSPORT at any table, and collect a sticker for your passport at each table you visit.
Win a prize for collecting 5 stickers if you can tell us: What will be YOUR shift?
- Learn how to sustainably dispose of vape waste, offered by Natick 180 and the NATI Club at NHS.
- Make a corn husk doll or try beading with Natick Nipmuc Tribe.
- Discover the Bacon Free Library's Seed Library, become a Local-vore!
- Bring your gardening questions to the experts from the Mass Master Gardener's Association.
- Explore Natick's outdoor spaces with maps from Natick Open Spaces & Trails.
- Take the plastics quiz, and learn how to reduce plastic in your life with Beyond Plastics Greater Boston.
- Find out about repurposing activity trackers and smart watches for underserved populations, with Recycle Health.
- Get a textile recycling bag to fill up at home, courtesy of Fisk United Women in Faith.
- Play the Make the World Better bingo game with Natick For Black Lives Matter MetroWest.
- Meet a polar bear and take action! Talk to folks from 350 Mass MetroWest.
- Hear how our parks are kept clean, with giveaways from Natick Recreation & Parks staff.
- Meet the NHS students who are doing something about environmental issues!
- Grow your appreciation for Natick's wonderful trees and learn how to protect them, with folks from Natick Tree Protection.
- The Natick Heat Pump Coaches are IN to answer your questions about going electric for home heating and appliances.
- Get a free tree from Planting the Future, and give a gift to the Earth and your yard.
- Give food waste a second life: stop by Natick's Net Zero Committee booth for a special discount to compost!
- Explore a wet-lab of local organisms from nearby Mass Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, using magnifying viewers.
- Get seeds and advice on planting herbs, vegetables, and flowers, from Natick Garden Club.
- Stop by the Tree for the Taking booth to hear guitars built without any deforestation, from invasive trees!
- Discover the hidden world of plants using handheld microscopes, with New England Sci-Tech.
- Chose Your Ride for the Earth! MetroWest Regional Transit Authority shares the benefits of using public transport.
- Schedule a mass save energy assessment with Mass Save, offered by Neeeco.
- Find out how volunteers Keep Natick Beautiful.
- Help weave the colors together with Natick is United, to create public art with recycled materials.