2024 EarthFest
April 20th – May 11th
Join us as we celebrate Earth Day & Fair Trade day!
ARTICULATED BY THE BCS BOARD OF DIRECTORS: BECAUSE OF BCS, PEOPLE IN BLOOMINGTON AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WILL HAVE…
A market for local, fair and healthful products, produced with care for the land, animals, and future generations.
We are committed to our Ends, and going forward:
We will not be accepting new beverages that are in plastic bottles.
We will be carrying more Fair Trade products at our stores! Stay tuned!
Thank you for working with us to encourage everyone to make every day earth day and to create a higher demand for sustainable and ethically sourced goods!
Help us get the word out and share our flyer!
SATURDAY, APRIL 20th
Join us as we kickoff earthfest!
Events:
Pathway to Water Quality truck will be in the parking lot at our East Store from 9am-12pm presenting how land “sheds” water or drains to a common place such as a river or stream and how what we do each day impacts our soil & water quality. Presentations will be 20-30 mins long.
From 10am on Friday, April 19th, to noon on April 20th, their truck will be taking up 3-4 parking spaced to the left of curb-side pickup.
Monroe County Soil and Water will be outside at our Near West Store from 10am-12pm demonstrating slake testing to show what healthy soil looks like and will be offering free soil testing. These demonstrations will be informal.
Sunday, April 21st
Event:
Stop by our stores from 1-3pm and make a native seed pod with members from our Board of Directors! This activity is free and open to everyone! Stay tuned!
Also, they will be GIVING AWAY Fairtrade America branded reusable bags to 100 lucky shoppers (50 bags per store)! Each shopper will get to spin our giveaway wheel (one spin per shopper) to see if they have won a reusable bag – while supplies last!
Promotion:
Receive 20% OFF bulk when you bring your own reusable container! Don’t have one? We got you covered - purchase a branded Bfoods bulk bag or reusable container and still receive 20% off! Excludes special orders and cannot be combined with other basket coupons.
Not sure how to use our bulk section? We still got you! Visit our Make Every Day Earth Day page to learn how to buy bulk items at our stores!
MONDAY, APRIL 22ND (EARTH DAY!!!)
Promotions:
Double your Bloomingfoods for Earth stamps all day! Limit 10 stamps. Our Bloomingfoods for Earth rewards cards are available at our registers for anyone to take advantage of; you do not need to be an Owner-Member to have a rewards card!
Receive 20% OFF bulk when you bring your own reusable container! Don’t have one? We got you covered - purchase a branded Bfoods bulk bag or reusable container and still receive 20% off! Excludes special orders and cannot be combined with other basket coupons.
Not sure how to use our bulk section? We still got you! Visit our Make Every Day Earth Day page to learn how to buy bulk items at our stores!
SATURDAY, APRIL 27th
Event:
Sycamore Land Trust Native Tree Giveaway from 10am-2pm at both of our stores! One free tree seedling per person while supplies last.
Buttonbush – Cephalanthus occidentalis
Pawpaw – Asimina triloba
Pecan – Carya illinoinensis
Persimmon – Diospyros virginiana
Red Oak – Quercus rubra
Tree seedlings from Indiana Department of Natural Resources’ Vallonia Tree Seedling Nursery.
Help plant over 600 trees in our community. Learn more at www.sycamorelandtrust.org/free-trees.
Sunday, April 28th
Event:
Join us for a tour at one of our local vendor’s facility – Brown County Coffee in Nashville, Indiana! Their facility is certified as a wholesale food manufacturer with Indiana and the FDA, and they have a large private coffeehouse that they use in their extensive quality control and research methods.
The tour will take place at their facility where they will show attendees all the steps to producing a cup of coffee, starting with roasting/cooling/destoning on their low emissions roaster, Loring, and packing and end the tour in the lab and taste some Fair Trade brews!
You must register to attend this tour. There will be a tour at 11am and 1pm with each tour lasting about 1 hour and 30 mins (25 person limit per tour). Please register via the form at the bottom of this page. We are accepting RSVPs until April 19th.
SATURDAY, MAY 4th
Event:
In celebration of Bike Month, Revolution Bike & Bean will have a Pop-up Bike Repair Shop at both of our stores! The time is TBD. Stay tuned (pun intended)!
Giveaway:
Also, one lucky winner will win a brand new bike! This bike giveaway is in partnership with Revolution Bike & Bean!
Visit our giveaway page or click the button below for the rules, terms & conditions and to enter!
Saturday, MAY 11th (Fair Trade Day!!!)
Event:
Sycamore Land Trust’s Spring Plant Sale will be at our East Store from 9am-2pm. Proceeds from the sale will be used to support their Native Plant Nursery where they grow native plants for their many land restoration projects in South Central Indiana.
They will offer native plants that thrive in a garden setting and that provide vital habitat and food for our pollinators, birds and small mammals. Please stop by and chat with them about adding more native plants to your backyard in support of wildlife.
If it rains, the Plant Sale will be moved to Saturday, May 18.
Promotion:
20 % OFF all Fair Trade products! Excludes special orders and cannot be combined with other basket coupons.
Everyone deserves to be treated fairly.
Why you should buy Fairtrade products:
To show your support for farmers and workers, who work to build a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities.
For farmers’ & workers’ human rights, such as safety, housing and education.
Fairtrade supports workers’ rights to trade unions and collective bargaining, as well as democratic decision-making at the producer level
Fairtrade tackles the root causes of biodiversity loss in many ways – from training farmers to setting standards for sustainable supply chains, and lobbying governments and corporations.
To create a demand for goods that were purchased on fair trade terms and telling companies that sustainable and ethical sourcing is important to you.
To show that you prioritize the people and places behind your food.
Because it is the right thing to do, and your choices matter — little changes can make a big impact.
For more information about Fairtrade, please visit www.fairtradeamerica.org.
during EarthFest, Both of our stores will have an endcap with fair trade products so that it is easier for you to locate them in our stores.
Giveaways!
One lucky winner will win a large Fair Trade basket filled with Fair Trade, local and environmentally friendly products!
One lucky winner will win a brand new bike! This bike giveaway is in partnership with one of our Community Partners, Revolution Bike & Bean!
Visit our giveaway page or click the button below for the rules, terms & conditions and to enter beginning April 20th!
Shopping local benefits our environment!
Once upon a time, ALL shopping and buying was local, resulting in tight sustainable communities where citizens supported their local small businesses, restaurants and farms. Our great grandparents ate the fruits that were produced on trees in their own state and filled the table with vegetables grown, if not in their own garden, in their own town. Today, our world has become so global and interconnected, and we have the ability to get anything anywhere, but it also comes at a price. Our vast distribution network of trucks, trains and airlines is polluting the environment. Our local businesses struggle to compete with national chains. There is no better time than NOW to shift the tide and buy more local products from your friends and neighbors! *Source: Green Business Bureau
Buying local, organic, and fair trade all share a similar vision — getting you, as a consumer and/or producer, to think not just about what you purchase and produce, but how products come to us.
These shared values include a desire to:
Implement sustainable farming practices.
Avoid large corporate intermediaries.
Know who grew the food.
A connectedness or transparency.
Buy directly, or at least more directly to get more of the purchase price back to the producer.