(Seguin) — Make your plans to go green at Seguin’s Earth Day Festival and Spring Trade Days next Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Central Park. After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the spring festival is returning to downtown packed with shopping, education, crafts, and more.
The event will feature over 20 exhibitors educating the community on green living. Activities will include plant sales, demonstrations on water quality, constructing bird feeders, planting seeds, education on electric vehicles, and more. Seguin Animal Services and ARF will be in the park to help pets find their FURever homes.
Get some spring cleaning done early by cleaning out your cabinets and getting rid of unused appliances and furniture. Seguin Police Department will be collecting and properly disposing of all prescriptions and the Habitat ReStore will take your furniture to find it a new home!
A new addition to Seguin this year is Artable Curiosities. Their goal is to reduce waste materials for our small businesses. Order online a lot? Bring all of your mailer envelopes (bubble or not), packing peanuts, bubble wrapping, pillow wrapping and packing paper. They want to get these products in the hands of our small businesses who ship items so that we can create a circular economy instead of creating more waste.
“The Earth Day Festival is fun for the whole family, there are craft projects for the kids and shopping and demonstrations for the adults,” said Kyle Kramm, Seguin Main Street & CVB Director, “We have some new exhibitors this year that we are glad to have joining us, including San Antonio RV who will have one of their eco-friendly RV’s in the park and Artable Curiosities who will be discussing reuse of household items for art and other purposes.”
The festival also includes the Earth Day Passport. Visitors can use the passport to visit all the exhibitors. Once completed, passports can be turned in for a bag of goodies and educational information.
In addition to the Earth Day exhibitors, there will be 80 Trade Day vendors set up around Central Park selling yard décor, jewelry, home goods, art, food, and more. Our vendors always bring a variety of wonderful products perfect for gifting.
Thank you to the generous sponsors who help make Seguin’s Earth Day Festival a success – including Caterpillar, Inc., Crawford Electric, RV San Antonio, Post Oak Landfill – Waste Connections, GVEC, Seguin Angel Pest Control, AACOG Environmental Conservation Program and Natural Resources Program, Tyson Foods, HEB, South Eden Food Forest, LLC, and the City of Seguin.
For more information on Seguin’s Earth Day Festival, visit www.seguintexas.gov/earth_day/.
