EcoFest 2012

Learning Gate Community School is hosting its 3rd Annual EcoFest.

EcoFest 2012 is a community event organized by Learning Gate Community School to celebrate the many businesses, organizations, and individuals in the Tampa Bay area dedicated to the principles of sustainability – Ecology, Equity and Economy.

EcoFest 2012 will be held on April 14, 2012 on the school grounds  at  16215 Hanna Rd in Lutz, Florida. The event will be open to the public from 9:00 A.M. until 3:00 P.M. Admission to the event is free.

There will be live music, workshops (including building rain barrels and creating container gardens), demonstrations, informational booths, green living products and services. Some local artists, green businesses, environmental organizations, alternative health practitioners, renewable energy specialists, organic farms and gardens with produce. EcoFest at Learning Gate Community School is Saturday April 14 from 9a to 3p. It’s a free event for the community and will feature over 100 green vendors as well as some relevant workshops like building rain barrels and collecting rain water, creating a container garden and a presentation by Tampa Electric.

Presentation	Speaker
How to Conserve and Store water as our natural resource	Virginia Overstreet - Water Wise
Making a difference, Recycle, Garbage, reusing.... Keep our County Beautiful	Pat Deplasco - Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful
Growing Scientists Hands-On Environmental Projects	Jim McGinity - Learning Gate
What is composting, and how nature processes organic materials	Monica Ragukas
Project Based Learning at Learning Gate Middle/High	Summer Solomon - Learning Gate
Garden Containers- easy gardening for everyone	Kray Funch
How to effectively store rain water and how it benefits us	Shelly Stein
Greening Your Environment - How you can inspire others to be more eco-friendly and earth conscious.	Lisa Custer - Going Green Tampa

I know Virginia Overstreet. She has a fantastic Florida Friendly Yard in Seminole Heights.  Her workshop will be very good.