5th Annual Spring Planting Festival March 16-24, 2013

Complete Calendar for Festival Week, event locations, times, and registration here>.

OPENING DAY - Saturday, March 16, 2013 > More>

9:30 am - 5 pm
Opening EXPO @ West Sedona School > More>

2:30 - 4 pm
Keynote address: Michael Meléndrez > More>
renowned soil scientist, plant research specialist, and inventor

7 pm
Opening Concert @ Old Town Center for the Arts > More >

Complete Calendar for Festival Week, event locations, times, and registration > here>.

Our Annual Spring Planting Festival provides
educational, cultural and practical activities
that increase local food production,
environmental stewardship, and a healthy, sustainable lifestyle.

The Theme of the 2013 Festival is
"Growing Healthy Communities."

When we use the term "healthy communities,"
we mean personally, environmentally, economically, and spiritually.
We realize that community connections, mutual support and traditions play a big role for all of us.

Coffee Talks: All Week in Cafés throughout Sedona and the Verde Valley

Throughout the week we will have morning "coffee talks" in cafes
throughout Sedona and the Verde Valley and workshops and events
on a wide range of topics that contribute to healthy communities.
One of our original goals in starting the Spring Planting Festival was
to stimulate an "agricultural renaissance" in Sedona and the Verde Valley.
Along with this would be community building around local food and cultural celebration.

Tags: Festival, Gardens, Healthy, Humanity, Melendrez, Michael, Planting, Spring, agriculture, communities, More…for, local, native, plants

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Comment by Doreen Pollack on February 26, 2013 at 3:18pm: We also sent it out on our Facebook page! Looks like a great line up of classes and speakers!

Comment by Richard Sidy on February 26, 2013 at 10:08pm: Thank you Doreen! VPA is a great inspiration for us! You do this all year long - what a great team! Our Festival aims to highlight the many educators, businesses, and non-profits in our region who are putting the puzzle pieces of sustainability together. We hope perhaps for a VPA presence at our Festival in 2014. You are an essential part of our food shed and eventually "local" for our region will be a 100 mile radius of the Verde Valley.