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Monroe Technology Center Fall Plant Sale: Sept. 16–18, 2009

September 14, 2009

The Monroe Technology Center in Leesburg is hold­ing its fall plant sale this week! I am a fail­ure as a gar­dener, but the plants I bought at MTC’s spring plant sale held up bet­ter than the rest of my attempts. I have found the stu­dents, staff and vol­un­teers work­ing past plant sales to be cour­te­ous and […]

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Audubon Nature Fair, a recycled post with updated dates for 2009

May 2, 2009

Woodend Sanctuary 8940 Jones Mill Road Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301−652−9188 We love the Audubon Nature Fair, and look for­ward to attend­ing each year. We pic­nic with friends, shop for gifts for upcom­ing events, meet bee keep­ers, learn about inva­sive species, find lit­tle crea­tures in the pond, make card­board binoc­u­lars, enjoy per­for­mances geared at both […]

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EarthDay@Loudoun 2009 Family Festival Sunday, April 26th

March 23, 2009

Valerie Cook of Better Choices, a ven­dor par­tic­i­pat­ing in Earth Day @ Loudoun 2009, asked me to pass the fol­low­ing announce­ment along: EarthDay@Loudoun 2009 Family Festival will be held on Sunday, April 26th from 11–3 at the Willow Creek Farm by Clyde’s, 42920 Broadlands Blvd.  Vendors will be offer­ing green ser­vices and goods.  Local artists will […]

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Seafoodwatch.org

January 25, 2009

We vis­ited the Monterey Bay Aquarium on our recent trip to California and were intro­duced to the Sea Food Watch pro­gram there. The pro­gram seeks to edu­cate lit­tle and grown folks alike about the envi­ron­men­tal impacts of our fish choices through their inter­ac­tive exhibit and web­site.  Sea Food Watch also offers a well-researched and regularly […]

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Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary & Historic White’s Ferry

December 3, 2008

Happy belated Thanksgiving! We snagged a great book from the library recently! In A Plump and Perky Turkey (writ­ten by Teresa Bateman and illus­trated by Jeff Shelley) the turkeys all skip town before Thanksgiving and the town-folks try to trick them back, but (after pages of engag­ing illus­tra­tions and rhymes that please me) they end […]

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Rain Barrel Workshops

September 9, 2008

This sum­mer we attended a rain bar­rel work­shop. The work­shop was a joint pre­sen­ta­tion by the Loudoun Soil & Water Conservation District and the Town of Leesburg. We enjoyed mak­ing our own rain bar­rel by adapt­ing a fifty gal­lon drum to include a spigot, over­flow release, and insect screen. When we got home we needed […]

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Buy Fresh, Buy Local Virginia

August 2, 2008

If you’re look­ing for a way to sim­plify your hunt for local foods in Virginia, you’ll want to check out the buylocalvirginia.org site cre­ated by the Piedmont Environmental Council of Charlottesville, VA. The site con­tains a wealth of infor­ma­tion, includ­ing: why it is a good idea to buy local events and news con­cern­ing the local food scene a search­able database […]

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Greener Loudoun

July 12, 2008

GreenerLoudoun is a blog for all you local folks inter­ested in green­ing your lives. It cov­ers a wide range of top­ics — from infor­ma­tion on reuse and recy­cling, to how our choices affect local wildlife, to edu­ca­tional events suit­able for chil­dren. The blog is inter­spersed with fas­ci­nat­ing pho­tographs, as well.  Have a look!

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Small Change Consignments in Reston

June 29, 2008

Small Change 1629 Washington Plaza Lake Anne Village Center Reston, VA 20190 (map it) (703) 437‑7730 Hours: Tuesday — Saturday, 10 — 5 There’s noth­ing like a used children’s shop right next to a used book store to draw folks like us! I love vis­it­ing Lake Anne and recently shopped at Small Change. I walked in and found exactly […]

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