Have you thought about having a cow in your backyard? Want to build a greenhouse or cold frame to grow your own food? Have you installed your rain barrels and now wonder what your next step should be?
Come to the Small Footprint Living Fair! This event is two full days of affordable workshops and discussions to connect people with ideas for green living, reducing your energy costs, growing your own food, and informative tours of homes utilizing these principles. Our classes feature a collection of knowledgeable folks from Cook County as well as Minnesota and Ontario. They will be sharing their experiences and offering practical suggestions and ideas in four main areas: Green Building, Alternative Energy and Energy Conservation, Sustainable Food and Animal Husbandry.
Attend and tour a zero energy efficient home; learn about the “greenest” motel over in Ely; find out about how geothermal works in our northern climate; bring a year’s worth of your energy bills to one workshop and learn how to save money by using new technologies; come and see what Silver Bay is doing with their new eco-park; come learn about raising goats for milk or meat. Browse the sustainable book fair; stay for lunch and enjoy the free noon time speakers on biomass, pros and cons of using wood or wood pellets, learn how to become a community sustainability activist; preview the film “The Economics of Happiness” and other films at the Friday evening film festival from 4:30 to 9 p.m.; bid on a greenhouse and an entire water collection system through our silent auction.
More information and brochures are available all around Cook County with a full list of events, workshops and speakers, as well as registration information. Brochures are also available at http:// co.cook.mn.us, through Diane Booth, Cook County Extension director at 218-387-3015, or committee members Howard & Joan Abrahamson, Maggie Barnard, Julie Bishop, Steve Deschene, Max Linehan, Penny Ortmann, Melanie Steele, Kathi Whittet and George Wilkes.
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