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
- Â 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.â€
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