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Jennifer Basch
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320-632-0691
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Vendor Application:
We invite you to exhibit your "green and sustainable" products and services or to promote your earth-friendly message to the public, free of charge. All groups are welcome.
Click here for a printable application.
Please mail this application to:
Jennifer Basch
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, MN
116 8th Avenue SE
Little Falls, MN 56345
Join us for a FREE family-friendly event that promotes
a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.
Exhibits
• earth friendly products
• recycled art & fashion
• renewable energy • green building
• wholistic health and much more!Live Music
• Fiddle Festival
• U Rock Bands
• Club Ramon
• Sestri Na Mir
Family activities
• affordable food
• entertainment for all ages
• creative kid's activities
• teddy bear clinic
Electronics Recycling:
This year we will feature an electronics recycling event hosted bySW Recycling. They will take the following items at the reduced rates listed below:
$2: VCR, DVD player
$5: copiers, TVs (excluding console), laptops, monitors, CPUs, fax machines, printers
$10: console TVs
Green Fair Exhibit Criteria
Our desire is to provide information and ideas of how we can all make differences that will benefit our earth.
As a business member, educator, artist or non-profit group, we invite you to exhibit your "green and sustainable" products and services or to promote your earth-friendly message to the public at this event, free of charge. You'll have a chance to connect with residents in our area who are looking for ways to adopt more eco-friendly lifestyles and consumer choices.
We ask that exhibitors meet at least one of the following "environmentally sustainability criteria":
Education/Promotion of environmental values
Energy efficient/renewable energy.
Examples: energy-efficient lighting, appliances and vehicles; Smart Growth; telecommuting technologies and practices; electricity produced by photovoltaic panels.
Conserves/protects water and/or air.
Examples: water-conserving home appliances and lawn and garden care; permeable pavement and constructed wetlands; no-VOC paints.
Less toxic/Plant based products.
Examples: environmentally friendly cleaning products; low/no-VOC paints; mercury-free vehicles; organic lawn and garden products and techniques.
Locally/Regionally produced products.
A product grown/manufactured near the location of its use.
Reduces waste; durable/reusable items.A product with less packaging, creates less waste in its manufacturing, designed for long life or a secondary use after its original use. Examples: canvas shopping bags, salvaged building materials, rebuilt auto parts, compostable products or biodegradable packaging.
Recycled content.
Examples: recycled papers, carpet, paint, plastic wood.
Organic. Examples: organic food, organic clothing, Energy Star, Fair Trade, FSC, Food Alliance, LEED, Green-e, other.
Health & Wellness.
Examples: businesses or products taht promote teh overall health and well-being of individuals.
Art.
Examples: recycled art, folk art, any and all artisans, items that have been "upcycled", taking a waste material and making it into something useful.
Food.
Examples: organic &/or local food vendors that will serve food to the public at the festival. If prepared on site, you must have a food vendor permit through Morrison County Public Health.
The Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, Minnesota, is a community of Roman Catholic women religious who follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ, walking in the footsteps of Saints Francis and Clare of Assisi. We welcome those who wish to join us as sister, associate, volunteer, transfer sister, friend and donor. We live lives of prayer in community and in service to the poor as we seek to build a more peaceful world and to care for the Earth. We sponsor the St. Francis Music Center and St. Francis Health & Recreation Center, both open to the public.