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Grassroots Festival to host sustainability fair

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Staff

Organizers for this year’s Spring Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival announced this week that in addition to more than 50 music and dance performances, the festival will also host a sustainability fair focusing on environmental awareness and sustainability education.
The fair, titled “Abundance Through Harmony and Creativity,” will showcase several area groups and businesses working toward a more sustainable community lifestyle, including:

  • The Abundance
  •  Foundation;
  • GreenStep;
  • Chatham Marketplace;
  • Carolina Farm Stewardship Association;
  • The Haw River Assembly;
  • Central Carolina Community College
  • Honey Electric Solar;
  • Southern Energy
  • Management; and Piedmont Biofuels Coop.

Groups will offer a variety of hands-on presentations and exhibits in a “nine-sided Americas indigenous peoples inspired structure.”

The festival is April 19-22 at the Shakori Hills farm near Silk Hope. More information and tickets to the four-day festival are available at www.shakorihills.org or by telephone at (919)542-8142.

-From staff reports

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