Guest Post - Wendy Wright - Okanagan Greens Society
The 4th
Annual Organic Okanagan Festival is less than 2 months away!
The Okanagan’s finest green living exposition will be held on Sunday
September 20, 2009 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm at Summerhill Pyramid
Winery, 4870 Chute Lake Road Kelowna. General admission is $5 at the
door plus a non-perishable food item for the Kelowna Community Food
Bank.
The Okanagan Greens Society is delighted
to welcome Choices
Market as a new festival
partner and Green Sprout Sponsor. Founded in 1990, Choices is
Western Canada’s largest retailer of natural, organic, specialty foods
with a sound commitment to their customers, their community and our
planet. With the support of their community, this family business has
grown into eight stores throughout Metro Vancouver and the Okanagan
while remaining 100% BC owned and operated.
A portion of Choice’s sponsorship
will be donating reusable shopping bags for the first 1000 festival
attendees! The bags will be stuffed with tempting green goodies
such as organic cereal & bar samples from Nature’s Path Food and herbal tea samples from Kelowna’s Silk Road Teas & Tonics.
Over 1000 people enjoyed the 2008 Organic
Okanagan Festival and forty-four Okanagan businesses and organizations
participated in the event. The Okanagan Greens are anticipating larger
guest attendance for the 2009 celebration and have already booked stimulating
new initiatives for the day.
A selection of events include: a talk
with Percy Schmeiser, a consignment fashion show by Frock clothing,
local music including the Raging Grannies and a Xeriscaping workshop.
Attendees can even ride the hybrid festival bus shuttle to Summerhill
Winery and enjoy green transportation to the event! Entertainment
times and bus routes will be posted on the Okanagan Greens website shortly.
Coordinator Wendy Wright would like
to remind interested exhibitors that main exhibitor registration
closes in 3 weeks on Monday August 24, 2009 and over 2/3rd
of exhibit space is already sold.
For more information on the Organic
Okanagan Festival please visit www.okanagangreens.ca or call
250.469.1881
