Earth Festival and DTDO Recycling Event
April 26, 2025
Milford Central School-Earth Festival (10 am-3 pm)
Wilber Park-Drive Through Drop Off-Recycling (10 am-1 pm)
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What we are collecting:
Shredding
Textiles
Styrofoam
Sneakers through gotsneakers.com
Tennis Balls through recycleballs.org
Glasses through Cooperstown Lions Club
Oral Care Waste-Spent toothbrushes, floss containers, toothpaste tubes
Beekman 1802 Products
Hasbro Games
Gillette and Venus-Razors
Musical Instruments-Collecting for local schools.
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Bring in a broken item for volunteer expert repair coaches to make small repairs and give advice on how to fix a variety of items. The repairs will be done free of charge, materials needed to fix items will be available to purchase.
The Repair Café at the Earth Festival is a joint effort by The Arc Otsego, the City of Oneonta Sustainability Committee, Otsego 2000, Otsego County Conservation Association, the Otsego Land Trust, and the Otsego ReUse Center. Throughout the year, Repair Cafés are held in Oneonta and Cooperstown.
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NY Goat Yoga
DOAS-Bird Friendly Homes
Found Object Art with Kelly Anne (12-2)
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Adirondack Mountain Club--Biological Field Station--Billzy’s Dog’z-- Blooming Note-Homemade and recycled paper-- Casella--Citizens Climate Lobby-- Community Foundation of Otsego--Constance Stuntmann-Woven Wool Crafts--Cooperstown Oneonta Indivisible -- Cornell Cooperative Extension-Master Gardeners-- CraftsyDane --CRISPWSP - CRISP--Delaware Otsego Audubon Society--Fiddle, and Frond Family Care-Sustainable Crafts--Fey in the Forest, Homestead and Crafts--Granola Girl-Beeswax Wrappers -- Growing Leaders/Origins Cafe --Hanford Mills Museum----Keep Mohaek Valley Beautiful--Koops Wildlife Rehab-- Leatherstocking Beekeepers-- Love, Laura-Jewelry Designs--League of Women Voters-Cooperstown-- Midnight Lily and Co --Milford Come-Unity Garden-- Milford Plants and Animals Class -- Mko Studio Craft-- My Neighbor’s Closet---OCCA -- Opportunities for Otsego-- Otsego County Democratic Committee--Otsego County Planning and Solid Waste--Otsego County SWCD-- Otsego 2000-- --Otsego Lake Association--Otsego Land Trust-- Soap by Nature-- Susquehanna Coalition--Sustainability Office-Suny Oneonta--The Glimmerglass Guild--The Wiggle Room and Bakery LLC--Tobacco Free Communities: Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie--Trolbrook Farm----Trout Unlimited- Local Dave Brandt Chapter -- Unadilla Community Farm--Upper Catskill Natural Burial Association-- United Women of Faith-- Ye Olde Bubble Tea-- Weaving by Marnie
Earth Festival Workshops
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Tracking the emergence of ticks and tick-borne diseases in New York
11:00 am
Dr. Saravanan Thangamani from SUNY Upstate Medical University
This talk/presentation will provide insights into the growing public health threats of ticks and tick-borne diseases in New York State. The talk will also focus on: (1) how the Upstate Tick Testing Laboratory is at the forefront of monitoring and tracking tick populations through cutting-edge surveillance tools and research; (2) the innovative tickMAP mapping tool, which tracks tick distribution and the spread of tick-borne pathogens across New York and beyond; and (3) how citizen science surveillance is shaping our response to the rise of tick-borne diseases and improving public health strategies across New York State.
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Increase your Food Production Using Permaculture Principles
1:00 pm
Kat Chiba-Straw House Herbs
Permaculture is a design technique that includes the interaction and interdependence of plants, animals, humans, soil, water, infrastructure, and community in the shared goal of sustainability. Learn how to add one or more permaculture design elements to your garden to enhance food production.
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Building a County Wide Natural Resource Inventory
1:00 pm
Trevor Fuller, Kevin Musser, and Levi Anderson-Otsego County
A Natural Resource Inventory (NRI) is a process culminating in a document providing descriptions and mapping of the location, distribution, type, and condition of particular natural resources. The resources are documented, recorded, and shared with the public for broader awareness of the current natural landscape of an area. In many cases, a municipality such as a village or town can utilize the NRI as part of their applications for state or federal grant funding. Otsego County’s Planning Department will introduce its new countywide natural resource inventory, sharing information about the initial impetus for creating the NRI, discussing the partner agencies/organizations that collaborated on this effort and the process, as well as the intended uses/benefits of an up-to-date NRI. Otsego County’s GIS Coordinator will walk through a mock scenario of a property inquiry using the online NRI to inform attendees how they can access it and utilize it themselves.
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Otsego 2000's-Tax Credit Workshop
2:00 pm
We may think of historic preservation as preserving a moment in time in architecture or a community’s development, but did you know that repairing and maintaining our historic buildings is also best for the planet’s future too? Otsego 2000 executive director Ellen Pope will discuss how repairing, restoring, and reusing historic building materials is important to fighting climate change, and how homeowners in Otsego County’s 15 historic districts may qualify for New York State’s Historic Income Tax Credit for home repairs. We will also provide information on New York’s Historic Barn Rehabilitation Tax Credit for barns built before 1946, no National Register listing necessary
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Saving the Earth with Native Plants
2:00 pm
Celia Oxley-Master Gardener
Preserving our planet through the power of native plants is crucial for fostering biodiversity and supporting local ecosystems. By attracting butterflies, birds, and bees, we can enhance the beauty of our landscapes while promoting the health of the environment.
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Bird Friendly Homes
All Day
Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS) announces an all-day workshop to support Bird-Friendly Homes at the 2025 Earth Festival. The workshop will focus on helping homeowners make Acopian BirdSavers window treatments for up to three windows in their homes (for free while funding lasts) to reduce bird-window collisions at homes throughout our communities.
Homeowners in our communities are invited to attend one of the area workshops where they can learn more and make/take home Acopian BirdSaver window treatments for up to three windows at their residences to help prevent collisions. Pre-registration is required so that ample materials can be available.
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Knowing and Growing Herbs with Gert Coleman
The Herbal Apothecary - The herbs and spices in your kitchen cabinet can add flavor, scent, and color to foods and beverages. In addition, herbs can gently nourish and sustain us as well as ease headaches, stomach ailments, and skin issues. Join herbalist Gert Coleman to learn how to use your herbs and spices in a number of healing ways.
Herbal educator, writer, gardener, editor, and herb enthusiast, Gert Coleman loves, grows, eats, and reads avidly about herbs. Retired professor of English, she lives on 100+ acres in Central New York, growing herbs, flowers, trees, and at-risk native plants with her husband and dog.
