Scenes from

2025 Earth Fest

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Earth Fest 2025 

April 26th 10a.m. – 2 p.m.

 

Hailey’s first Earth Fest happened 5 years ago - 50 years after the first Earth Day was established as an international day to recognize our amazing earth and recommit to our continued stewardship of the delicate environmental balance of our planet.  Our Earth Day Festival (shortened to “Earth Fest”) continues to grow and change.

 

This year’s Earth Fest 

Earth Fest 2025 was all about exploring circularity of our material goods and involves all the ordinary and fantastic things we each can do in our daily lives to maintain the Earth as a habitable planet.  The concept of circularity is summed up in this poster and is more often known by the many Re’s it includes: reduce, reuse, refurbish, repair, repurpose, regenerate, rethink, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earth Fest activities

 

The day began with our Earth Fest Five K Fun Run for the whole family

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The Race was held at the start of all of our Earth Fest Activities

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Community Trunk Sale / Second Hand Sidewalk Sale

People got a jump start on spring yard sales and enjoyed our Circularity Culture

with 13 local sellers all in one place.

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Our Neighbors’ spring cleaning brought great 2nd hand items for sale

 

Fix-It Clinic

     Town Center West was buzzing with our ever-growing Repair Clinic! Folks got help with their broken stuff and learned valuable repair skills at the free Fix-It Clinic.  People brought in their broken, torn, stained or worn items to get some guided assistance from a volunteer coach with repair skills to troubleshoot, and (hopefully) fix small household appliances, textiles, lamps, dull blades, home furnishings, wooden items, etc.

    

 

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Repurposing ‘waste’ items​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

​Individuals, groups and businesses shared how to make something new and fun out of items we tend to use and just throw away.

 

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People of all ages got to try their hands at weaving with yarn made from old t-shirts

 

Like the first Earth Day 55 years ago, Earth Fest was half Festival and half Teach-In.  The Activities Tables, sponsored and brought to you by 19 of our local non-profits, organizations, and governmental departments, were a big part of that mash-up with their "hands-on" activities to share some Circularity options that are fun for everyone.  From learning more about our local recycling efforts - the variety and fun was lined up for both DIY fun and a few important facts.

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We want to shout out a special thanks to our wonderful valley organizations that work year round to take care of our natural world and our wonderful community here in the valley:
5B Can, Building Material Thrift Store, ERC, Sun Valley Institute for Resilience, Winn’s Compost, Trailhead Bikes, Wood River Land Trust, The Nature Company, Idaho Conservation League and the Youth Salmon Protectors, CACWRV, SV Community School’s Green Team and Community Tables, Just Serve, WATER Club, Friends of the Hailey Public Library, Dark Skies, The Advocates, and Bloom Gardens.

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How can YOU get involved?

We could use your help to make this event better again next year!

(contact CACWRV@gmail.com for ways to help out)​