Hey everyone, and welcome back to practically zero waste a podcast for making zero waste living as practical as possible. What has been the highlight of your summer so far. Was it sprawling in a park with a plastic free picnic? How about attending a garbage free Festival? How do you celebrate summer without creating a necessary trash? Today's episode? I chat with Rob Davis a festival organizer for the puber Folk Fest celebrating their 30th Anniversary this year Rob shares all about the Folk Fest is Eco team the dishwashing station and they're reusable dish program for all of their food on site. Yeah, if you're enjoying this podcast, I'd love it. If you'd leave us a rating and review on Apple podcasts and hit subscribe on whatever you're listening platform is for more weekly content. If you'd like to send us questions, you can send an email to practically zero waste at gmail.com or find me on Instagram and Facebook and practically zero as pod and it can like a support the podcast you go to Anchor dot f m / practically zero waste and at the store ready to make every Festival December as green as possible. Let's go. So, what is the Folk Festival in the weekend? Like a general summary of what kind of music it is and how long it's been going. Yeah, and the name folk. I mean for a lot of people really evokes singer-songwriter, you know girl with guard guy with guitar and we and we do that but we're very diverse Festival to the point to some people suggest we should maybe change our names we do World music. We do lots of indigenous. We do rock we do reggae we do all do all sorts of things Bedouin sound Clash came and played last year. We have A Tribe Called Red This year I'll clean Edwards Matt Mays and so, you know, none of those are necessarily that the singer-songwriter genre and we do a lot of that as well. But we're very very broad long. Has it been running for this is the 30th Anniversary. Mmm-hmm. We're so proud of that. Yes. Oh, that's wonderful. How big is the festival? What's the kind of turnout for each of the days? We estimate we get about ten to twelve thousand people on site for the outdoor portion of the festival. Wow, which is where we do our Eco team dishwashing station and that sort of thing that we're going to talk about but we also host year-round concerts. So before the festival itself, we have two shows this year at Market Hall Thursday night and Friday night Thursday night a fantastic Juno award-winning indigenous performative William Prince. He's absent heard of him. Yes. It's from Manitoba. Yes. He's playing the Market Hall of Thursday and we have Donovan Woods. Also amazing on the Friday nights. I mean, we have to opening concerts and then the Saturday Sunday August 17th are free festival and there was a local park where we have the dishwashing station and all sorts of green initiatives as well as bring a community together through music. This is just a totally different topic for us on the podcast. But Community something that we talk about all the time I've ever single episode because it's so valuable in Grassroots initiatives like zero waste living like trying to produce Kevin Perkins. Carbon emissions so it all comes from the same place. How exciting is it in Festival season comes the build in the - and finally at the festival weekend. Yeah, and it really is building and our attendance is the building each year past five years in particular. It's really been scaling up. We could be getting more and more visitors coming and staying in Peterborough for the weekend from all over North America as well. As you know, people who walk across the street or live across the river or whatever take a bite. Your own bike trail, which we also encourage, which is also consistent with our sort of green theme our location for the outdoor Festival is Nichols oval Park. The address is 725 Armor Road, but the stage the main stage which overlooks the otonabee river. It's a beautiful setting backs right onto the rotary Trail. So biking and walking and walking trails anybody who's downtown Hunter Street, you can start the iceberg male house the rotor and tail comes right up to the park. We've been encouraging cycling and walking and Alternative forms of transportation to the festival for a bunch of reasons. One of which is a shortage of parking that's become a real pinch point, but it's also in keeping with our sort of community-minded green theme and being a free Festival. We really welcome, you know parents with young kids who can maybe look come out for an hour or two will go to the Children's Village and do some crafts, you know, come and see Fred Penner, whatever you don't have to buy a $150 ticket stay all weekend. Could just come forbid if you like as well and this year. We're actually working with bike that great Peterborough Community bicycling organization. Right? Yes, and we're actually expanding our bike rack capacity this year given that we found didn't quite have enough last year. We have bike racks both at the top and the bottom of the hill, but we're going to have more available this year and valet parking as well for books for fashion. So All in all in keeping with the green theme of the festival and the community nature of it and trying to encourage alternative transportation is just part of that. I love it. There's a valley so busy your bike that's thanks to thanks to the city of Peterborough and thanks to bike which is providing both the loan of the bike racks and volunteers for about valet parking true for one of the bike locations. So that's you know, and it's really consistent with something we have been doing with the festival in recent years as well. And you know looking to partner with organizations like plastic free Peterborough. It's your always Peterborough and have similar objectives and values and Community minded folks. There's so many different ways to partner. Yeah, and Peterborough is just such a happening spot for all of these things. Like I love raving about this town but things are happening there because there's so much that easily accessible green options and alternatives for people. Yes, and it's definitely growing is our network of bike paths. Some trails and bike Lanes expands as well bike infrastructure is definitely one of those things that build it. They will come the inspiration for going green. Is that been drawn from other different festivals that you'd look to for the structure and the format of how to make these green changes. I would say it's a several different factors and certainly looking around at other festivals is helpful. Your listeners may have heard of shelter Valley Folk Festival down near Grafton down here at Coburg Ontario, which regrettably Closed up after a good decade long run just a couple years ago, but they made great efforts. We actually acquired some of their dishes and that sort of thing to shop drop down there and pick those up another one that we intend. We're going to lose a blue skies Music Festival. Oh Martha Kingston in the sharbot lake area and it's a different Festival because it's primarily a camping Festival. Hmm. It would be very different. So you don't camp at the Peterborough Folk Fest. There's no camping on site. Tell me a little bit about the reusable. This program because that's something that I'm so excited about because when I go to a festival or to an outdoor concert, what is the main source of garbage that I find and the end majority of it is food. Please not just actual food being wasted but the packaging comes with it the associated but Cutlery bags everything like that. So what have you guys done to kind of address that really the biggest thing we've done by far is to form what we call the Eco team and Nancy nozman to use the coordinator for our Eco team has made great efforts in putting together. The greens Festival we can that way to reduce waste associated with food. So like a lot of festivals we have food vendors on site we try and provide local food options to the extent possible and have a nice variety of food used to be the food vendors would come in and bring all their own Cutlery and their own paper plates and styrofoam containers all that sort of thing both. The city's City would send staff. We would have volunteers are so cuckoo go around picking up garbage and the volumes of waste generated produced in those in those days was really enormous when we see all this garbage going off site wasn't really consistent with who we want to be. Hmm. So we came up with this idea of building a dishwashing station. Yeah of a homemade thing. Yeah, we got, you know kind of laundry tubs held together with two by fours and that sort of thing and we put the I'm up on a bit of a platform to get some up to the right height for volunteers and we have purchased a water heater that we hook up to the hose with water that comes into the dishwashing station to bring it up. Of course, you know for a festival there are health and safety standards and all that sort of thing. So the water has to be a certain temperature we have to use soap and you have to use bleach as well as well as regular clean water. So we have the three sync system and then we have drying racks when they drying racks that another one of our Took it upon themselves to make the festival where we stack these dishes to dry. And then there's a breeze. That's great. It'll dry if necessary. Sometimes we'll set up set up some super fans to help them along as well. That's essentially what we've done. We hook into the Municipal Water right on site there and goes through the hose to the water heater to the dishwashing station and the volunteers are working away there with rubber gloves on keeping everything clean. That's amazing. So you have how many volunteers does it take to run the station? For the station in particular the more the berrier because the more the more volunteers we have the shorter shifts we can run. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, sometimes washing dishes for more than an hour can be a tough. Go keeping me want to take a break and so some of the some of the stations for example our beard Pavilion in our merchandise Booth volunteers will have no trouble working three four five hours. Yeah talking to people and selling some merch that sort of thing washing dishes. Oh who wants to watch? This is for like six hours. Right, nobody right? Yeah. So it's one of those things that we would love to have dozens of volunteers there and people need to just sign up for an hour or so and below and it's definitely an area where we are looking for more volunteers. Definitely. Yeah, so we'll be able to put all the information for volunteering who's local to the area or is traveling in for the festival for the weekend. You'll be able to sign up online and be in touch. Absolutely. There's an online sign up and I would even welcome if people don't get a chance to do that. Just if you're at the festival and you think you might be able to spare an hour just come up the volunteer booth and coordinating their will happily take your information and puts you in an hour or two over the dishwashing station. Perfect. Yeah, and there's lots of places to volunteer because at the dishwashing station, there's the washing and potentially drying but then there's also the distribution to the food vendors and the collection and bringing it back to the dishwashing station site. And we do have a few signs upon site to try and encourage people after they use the The dishes to bring them back some people do and some people don't so our volunteers go around and we'll pick up the use dishes and Cutlery and and mugs and that sort of thing from the picnic tables not sort of thing around the site bring the back of the dishwashing station for cleaning after they're dry on the drying racks. We will take a stack of plates and Cutlery and cups mugs and that sort of thing and distribute the back to the food vendors. So the food vendors always have that in the source of plates and that sort of things. So the ones that have been doing this for a couple of years. Years now are probably more aware of what to expect. But when you bring in a new food vendor are they prepared with your expectations that they'll use your your kind of dishes. It's a great question because the food vendors who have been with us before and have seen the system work once they came around to it and love it. Now for one thing that saves them money the money, of course. Yeah just generally show up in a food truck or a booth and the show up with their styrofoam containers and their paper plates and there. Opposable cups and that sort of thing because that's normally the way they would operate these things totally. Yeah, and and so we do speak to them that's quite variable. I would say for the first time some of them are hesitant at first but quickly come around to the idea after they realize saving money and we do have many food vendors return year after year now an awesome. They're very well aware. They love it. What are the plates look like like a divider or they just like a regular dinner plate just regular dinner plates. So Peterborough Folk Festival be being a free Festival is known as tiredly volunteer running. A lot of the things that we have are items that people have donated over the years. So that goes for all sorts of things at the festival everything from some of our sound systems to you know, tables and that sort of basic Festival equipment. Yeah to some of our dishes. So it's a mixture of things that people have donated some things that we have purchased. For example. We spoke earlier about shelter Valley Folk. What caused out a couple of years ago and when they did I drove down there? I was down there for the last day exchange for a donation to their Festival brought back a lot of the dishes and things that they used to so it's just just regular kitchen where for the most part strong thin light ceramic dinnerware is great where we have it. It's certainly a lot easier for the volunteers to carry around and that sort of thing but a lot of us just regular strong dinnerware. Yeah, it's not particularly late, but it's durable. That's great. A lot of festivals don't actually allow. People to bring in things like glass water bottles to their sites because they're worried about Broken Glass if you had any trouble with that like generally just been pretty yeah, we have not and being a Folk Festival and we are kind of a family-friendly atmosphere. So it's different than like a big big three-day Rock Fest or something like that where you know, look at the grounds three days later and there's all sorts of things left to no garbage trucks that drive around there pick everything up ours is not like that at all. It's a family-friendly thing. So nobody's throwing anything. We do have a beer Pavilion right? It's brewed in Oakville and with local Distributors here that we work with who are wonderful folks. And so we have the Pavilion at the park for the weekend becomes Cameron's Pavilion. All right, which is a cement platform with a shelter over my shoulder. And that is the one area that's fenced off. Of course because alcoholic beverages for Cameron's Pavilion. We require actually that people purchase a Peterborough Folk Festival mug, which is standard 14. Outsides sighs mug. Yeah that is reusable and people come back year after year in the same box. So we sell them on site for three dollars just on a break even basis. And so if you show up there without one of those mugs for your first beer, you have to buy one of those and then just going to fill that after that. So that also has cut down a lot on the waist. Could I bring my own cup you can bring your old copy your water bottle to refill water over provide drinking water for free amazing. It's another thing. We you know, Being a community Festival. So what we've done previously is we've had local Loop purchased Rocky Ridge Water available in spigots there and we leave a little donation bucket in case people feel you know, they would like to leave will globalization because we're providing the water for free this year. We're actually getting a water truck renting it from the city. So it's local Municipal Water provided in a truck that does some of the some of the events around town as well. Yes, we're renting that and we actually have a sponsor specifically for the water truck this year then these We're always looking for what its sponsors for all sorts of individual things and we had a water organization offer to sponsor our water this year. It is fantastic. So we're going to have the truck there on site and of course people can refill whatever continually would like for that. So you can't bring your own cup to the Beer Pavilion because you want to have a standard sized vendor that's totally fine. And the thing with your dishes you just using the standard everybody's got their own standard plate and everything if you brought your own, Container do some of the food vendors accommodate putting it in my Tupperware. Oh, I'm sure they would I mean if they're already here at this Folk Festival, you know using reusable dishes they might as well. Yeah the interested in that and then the water bottles you do any of your food vendors sell beverages in bottles, like you people ever buy bottled water from food vendors. So of course, I don't think any of our vendors to my knowledge sell bottled water amazing it yeah because we do have a water truck right? Yes, exactly. Cool. I love that. Does it actually produce any waste like what amount of garbage do you find is produced at the end of a weekend or at the end of a day at this point not a lot. So it used to be that our site crew and the city staff as well. They would spend all day for two days going around picking up emptying garbage and taking it away and the volumes that are produced now are far far far lower. We don't we don't actually measure it but musically quite noticeable huge huge reduction in it. That's amazing. We also have volunteers to share the site is clean after Saturday and after Sunday on Sunday is the festival wraps up. We're putting everything to bed putting everything away wheelies the spatial space under the stage right at the park. So all the equipment goes under there and we call them the park and leave it two days later included. We have at most cases what an operation are there any other areas that you've been thinking? Well, we've been so successful with the dishwashing station and like ballet and everything like are Are you exploring future options for green applying the festival one thing that we have been looking to do and I'm not so sure it's green defying but is to is to arrange for shuttle to get people to the site. Oh, yeah again just to reduce people driving and parking individually. Wow, how about shuttle from the downtown? That's something we have not quite been able to make happen yet. We're still trying for this year, but that's its again is one more effort in that direction that we've been so there's there's always room for improvement. And always always room for learning that would be fantastic because parking is free downtown on the weekends and have people start downtown and then they could catch the shuttle at certain times and I think the music festival in Peterborough has been doing that to there's a kind of this funny old tram thing driving around and it's been shuttling people downtown to the Music Fest me about your merch station. Do you have different things other than the cops that are necessary to enter the beer Pavilion with you have other things things that are rentals instead of final sale if it's stuff like that that might be something to consider amazing. Yeah. So the performers that come to play they'll usually show up a few hours early and bring the merchandise to the booth and We'll send it up and our volunteers will sell that when they come back after the show. Then we were turned the guns on sold Birch and the dollars and that sort of thing to them even so that's really what our merchandise because it's all about and it's centrally located right next to the volunteer Booth. Yeah, but idea of returning things there was just another festivals I've been to as chair rentals. And so you can Branch folding lawn chair for four bucks and then bring it back at the end because then you don't have to Lug that with you if you're walking or biking You want a lawn chair or or I was even thinking of a cups like the the beer cups could possibly be a rental thing if people didn't want to be around for whatever reason who wouldn't want to drink out of a cup like that. All you ready in my household. We have very little cupboard space in my kitchen. So if I wanted to write that for the next year I've ever that's a good idea. There's so many different ideas that I love that you have an Eco team to begin with because that's where this kind of brain. Drumming comes from all year round and then consideration at the actual Festival. Yes, and as Festival organizers were also in communication with the other festival organizations around around the province exactly across the country as well. So for example, were part of an organization called folk music Ontario that helps the big annual conference in the fall, but in the spring it also has musicians and music producers and oh as a describes an opportunity to kind of be seen and it's a network. Yeah lots of performances. Is yes, sir? It's a lot of fun. We also do folk music conference organizers retreat in the spring where we get together and we have presentations. We have meetings and we share all these sorts of ideas. That's perfect. And learning about greeting festivals is absolutely consistent with the sort of thing that we would do with these at these Retreats. That's amazing. Yeah. There's a one website that I found when I was kind of brainstorming questions. It's called Green festivals that CA and they just have so many case studies of of all these I'm Festival. So I'll definitely include that in the show notes for this episode to for anybody who's interested in doing work with their own local festivals or anything like that to be able to see all of the examples of you know, for overnight camping festivals the ones that are you know, struggling to have access to water like maybe they don't have a fire hydrant that's local to or that's on site for them to set up a dishwashing station. What are some Alternatives, you know cigarette butts. What do you do about a smoking area to make sure that that's not garbage? Yeah. That's a great idea. I will definitely check out that site for sure. Oh, yes so many different aspects. So for example in with climate change is becoming more real as well. You have to be prepared in the case of a star so you have to have regulations. So at what point do you decide to tear down the main stage or at least call things off for a while and soldiers emergency preparedness or is Insurance? There's all sorts of things that people don't necessarily think about when they're just going to a music festival to have fun actually things that have to be in place to maintain a good safe operation. What Your best bit of advice for somebody who's trying to work with a local Festival that already exists to join the board or something like that and and kind of bring some more Greener practices to a festival probably a good place to start if they haven't already it's just a tenth of festival and see what goes on in and have a look at things from that perspective. See if there's any ideas or suggestions that may have most Festival organizers. Most of us are volunteers. Most of us are just in it is good Community people trying to do the right thing. Thing and are very willing to take suggestions and ideas. It's different than the big commercial festivals where they've got their operations set up and that sort of thing where I think generally all the folks involved with these sorts of festivals are totally approachable open to ideas. Yeah and happy to have additional people pitch in as well. Oh, yeah, exactly. So volunteer whether providing ideas whether provide donations coordinating area thinking about joining the board at some point. These are very welcoming organizations. That's great and I think that you said a little bit there if you have an idea, I think it's great. If you are also going to volunteer, so instead of just approaching and being like hey, you guys should do all these big changes that require a lot of work Sia. Like you should get involved and start volunteering and year after year. Those changes can be added on or made and join the Eco team join all the different initiatives that are already kind of in place and then absolutely ideas to make it happen yourself. Yeah, exactly the team's that's good. These things happen. Oh, yeah absolutely adding ideas every single year and it just takes people who are passionate about something too, but So dollars are always appreciated for this sort of thing as well only yet, you're able to donate time donate finances to these different projects. And yeah, it all makes a difference. What do you do with the dishes and your dishwashing station during wintertime? You store them along just as part of our overall equipment. So we have staging lights dish washing equipment donation buckets. Well, you can all your tables lots of tables children's If supplies, etc, etc. I'll go I'll go to bed for the winter under the stage. Keep the dishes clean. We're all packed up carefully and in boxes and bagged and that sort of thing you ever learned them to people you have done that several times really and again consistent with being sort of agreeing to to minded Festival. We're working with other Peterborough area festivals and events to try and help one another out. And now that we have the dishes. Of the cutlery in the dishwashing station. We have learned that on several occasions to other festivals. For example, we have a film festival at Peterborough in wintertime called reframe. Yeah, and this year we loan them are dishwashing station and some of our some of our dishes and Cutlery and those sorts of things and they were able to use use that equipment and then we're trying it. That's fantastic. We also have a vegetarian food festival here called vegfest. Yeah in summertime and similar there as well at least that of our dishwashing station. Ian they put up a little Peterborough Folk Festival sign over top of it. So that's it. Hey, we borrowed this from Peterborough Folk Festival and it's all really also consistent with the sort of reduce and reuse thing as well. If that supposing the festival's can share equipment or because we're all at different times. Yes, there's something that one Festival has that would you know something they can Bond other festivals than why not and make a little bit of money for your good so far. We've done it for free. Oh, that's nicely done it. Under the auspices of we've actually set up formal lending agreements just to make sure we returned, you know, right conditions, but in addition to that sort of thing, but we will help each other out. So we haven't we haven't charged anybody in this yet. That's wonderful. So I have been dwelling on the idea ever since we first talked of like well the Peterborough Regional Farmers Market would possibly be able to borrow or lend wrenched. Those dishes from you during the winter because they move into an indoor space in Peterborough Square the mall downtown and then they'd have access to water in there. They'd be able to set up a water heater and do the whole dishwashing station and eliminate a huge amount of garbage from yes super in favor up. Do you do composting it all composting? I don't think is something we have set up yet. That's possibly another area for improvement as well. That's tough. When it's the city itself had I mean it's will composting program. Right? It'd be a lot easier. Yes. I can't we use a backyard composter exactly City Park. I don't necessarily know that there would be a place to take it. So yeah, you'd have to find some sort of partner. That's maybe a farmer or like maybe Trent University would accept food waste from festivals or something like that another area worth looking into I know but it's so Because and seeing what the problem for the farmers market is that whoever is going to accept it has to be able to process all the things in their compost pile. So if they're feeding it to their pigs or the chickens and that means that probably can't contain any sort of animal by-products or meat in there. So what that means? Oh, I have half of my sandwiches that I'm not going to eat for some reason because food waste is ridiculous. You're going to throw it in the compost. Well, that means do I have to separate the the lettuce and tomato and bread and compost that and put the cheese in neutral. Oh, that's just an extra level because I'm trying to bring composting to the market as well. So it's trying to find somebody who would take the compost do they also want napkins. So they also want paper plates like what what can you accept and compost and what can't you because if it was a municipal skill compost system, they could take it off but because it would just happen to somebody right now because that because that's all they can get is super hot and book everything exactly. Yeah who isn't Renew lately in the Green community Global or online or in person. There's so many ways to be green like in my work. I work in natural areas by diversity detection a sort of theme parks and protected areas. So it is in and there's so much good work going on in that way around the world. I think in terms of nature conservation, I think indigenous people and communities are inspiring. A lot huge leaders that we can learn so much from and are beginning to learn from and that's really good to see that start happening in Canada. There's there's definitely some leaders in that area as a group called from digital Circle experts that I very much admire. Where can someone go to learn more about either Folk Fest or you guys online or you on social media? Yes, and yes, so our website is Peterborough Folk Fest.com, and we have links there where people can sign up. The volunteer see what our lineup is some of the musicians performing at the festival watch some video clips donate if the care to donate we are registered charity. Hmm is well speak. We're going to tax receipt for the donations Mmm Yeah. So there's the website and then we have a Facebook page for Peterborough Folk Festival and we are on Twitter and we are on Instagram. So yes, we are out there. That's awesome. We will be able to connect all of that in the show notes and we'll be able to hopefully drive a lot of volunteers. Yours in your direction for especially the Eco team, but if people have other interests in the Folk Festival and there was lots of different there's lots of different places to volunteer. Yeah, we have coordinators in charge of all the different areas, right? So the genest need to Nashville uses who's the coordinator for our Eco team, but we also have coordinator for our Children's Village very proud of our Children's Village at the that's not a few times we have coordinators for Cameron's be Even now we're we persist and we have a coordinator for our Hospitality which prepares food for the performers and for the volunteers which by the way also use all these same disposable or and I'm not just about reusable from from the food vendors. They bring them over. Hospitality area tears will performers and for the volunteers during the ship's they get to eat for free as well. Perfect. Cool is there are any areas that we've missed that you're really proud of you want to share I think just being one of the last remaining free festivals in the country. We're really proud of it anywhere else. This is easily a hundred fifty dollar ticket for this for this weekend Festival. Yeah, we bring World caliber performers the last year we had better ones on class play. Saturday night is that is incredible here. We have A Tribe Called Red. I'll playing for free in a Municipal Park in Peterborough. Yeah, but he can just walk to what we have Fred Penner coming on the Sundial s good for the kids and the parents. Yeah, as a parent all the new buildings get at least the kids for ya. Children and we schedule the festival over the course of the weekend kind of varying through time. So Saturday night's more of a bit more of a rock more of a party. He'll wear Sunday afternoon is very much family children's performers. And then and then we close out with some work on our performers like Kathleen Edwards the matinees. Yeah. We're very proud of how many local artists which is also eco-friendly because it was part of travel it is We also have an emerging artist award very proud of this year. It's the paper shakers are emerging artist of the year. You have to be 30 or under you have to be unsigned from the Peterborough area. You have to be dedicated to a career in music first emerging artist of the year with somebody called Serena Ryder who turned out to be fairly successful. Yeah cool. If you look at the performers and emerging artists for Peterborough Folk Festival, it's a real who's who of the Peterborough music scene. We're really thrilled to cap carry that award on as well. We really do try and promote local talent and you know in with this Festival we provide them opportunities to mix it up and perform side-by-side with national and International International artists. Yeah, and that helps me to make connections as well absolutely need some of the connections through Folk Festival events, including our volunteer after party a couple of years ago connected some local musicians with national musicians and so forth. But they Hemingway's went did a whole tour opening for Joel Plaskett Bill Plaskett initially met at the spill in Peterborough Festival volunteer after party. I happened to be in the right place in the right time. So I was I happened to be the one that introduced them. But yeah, they so mean the connections at this at the Folk Festival and now they record and they toured together and all that sort of stuff. So I love that so much so great. So there's lots of lots of great things besides besides the green aspects of the We're really proud of and sort of building the musical community in Peterborough and Beyond. Well, thanks Rob. It's been awesome. It's pleasure to be here. Thanks so much elsbeth, and thank you for all the work that you do. Thanks again for listening everyone to Peterborough Focus. 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What screams summer time to you? BBQ's? Picnics? Outdoor concerts? Usually the biggest thing these have in common in the amount of disposable, single-use garbage they produce. But it doesn't have to be this way! The Peterborough Folk Fest is one of many examples of festivals making greener changes for the sake of the planet. From encouraging biking and walking to having REUSABLE DISHES for their food vendors, the Folk Fest is making waves in the green festival community! Check them out August 17th and 18th at Nichol's Oval Park in Peterborough and enjoy creating less waste! Check out their website: https://www.peterboroughfolkfest.com/ Join the Eco Team: https://www.peterboroughfolkfest.com/volunteer More info on Green Festivals: https://greenfestivals.ca/ New episodes every Sunday. 