WACF Earth Day Festival Offers Hands-On Earth Education
Melissa Bueshing helps Jazlyn Tayagua pick out seeds to plant at 2023’s Earth Day Festival. Fun With Seeds, hosted by the Syracuse-Wawasee Garden Club, and facepainting will be back at the WACF again this year. Photo by Deb Patterson.
By Lilli Dwyer
InkFree News
SYRACUSE — The Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation will be holding its annual Earth Day Festival 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at Ruddell Pavilion, 11586 N. SR 13, Syracuse.
WACF is serving a free lunch of hot dogs and chips to the first 250 visitors.
This annual event is meant to provide fun and education for all. Organizations from around the county will be there to guide visitors through hands-on activities on worm composting, geocaching, monarch butterflies, native plants and bird migration, to name a few.
Participants can help paint a rain barrel, learn arrowhead flint napping and bead work, get their faces painted, or view a collection of over 200 insect specimens, including live crustaceans.
Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation is paying a visit with some of their birds for a raptor display from 12:30-2:30 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public. Some vendor items will be available for sale.
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- Leslie Williams, an educator with the Kosciusko County Recycling Center, creates a worm bin at the county’s recycling booth. Director Tom Ganser is shown in the background. Photo by Deb Patterson.
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- Lydia Mast and Isla Mast hop under electrical wires on a simulated migration journey at the 2023 WACF Earth Day Festival. The Elkhart River Restoration Association will be doing a similar activity on challenges migratory birds face at this year’s event. Photo by Deb Patterson.
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- A number of people stopped by Jeff Moore and Duane Turnock’s booths to peruse some woodcarvings and spear fishing lures in 2023. Photo by Deb Patterson.
