Comments on: GEN Green Initiative: Glastonbury CT Apple Fest http://www.greeneducationnetwork.com/article/gen-launches-green-initiative-for-glastonbury-ct-apple-fest Teach and Learn. Save Planet Earth. Save All Life. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:45:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Tina Masciarelli http://www.greeneducationnetwork.com/article/gen-launches-green-initiative-for-glastonbury-ct-apple-fest/comment-page-1#comment-61 Tina Masciarelli Fri, 22 May 2009 17:55:07 +0000 http://www.greeneducationnetwork.com/?p=2124#comment-61 I applaud your efforts! My name is Tina Masciarelli and I am writing to you from Western North Carolina where we have been historically known for our apple production. My father grew up on his family apple farm in Henderson County, NC. Your efforts to "green" your Apple Fest are very inspiring because it increases accessibility for the mainstream public to sustainable and environmentally responsible practices and information. In our area, the long term effects of traditional apple farm practices continually present health problems with ground water contamination as well as loss of wildlife species. You have a wonderful opportunity to use your festival as a platform to introduce and explore a plethora of "green" issues to improve the health and lives of all your citizens. Your event can be a building block for your community to come together, harvest the joint investment in your environment, while building a coalition to sustain and preserve all that you hold dear. Great work! Keep going...the "green" path is quite contagious. Blessings, Tina Masciarelli Master of Liberal Arts Candidate, UNC-Asheville Environmental Steward, Community Activist,& Sustainable Gardener I applaud your efforts! My name is Tina Masciarelli and I am writing to you from Western North Carolina where we have been historically known for our apple production. My father grew up on his family apple farm in Henderson County, NC.

Your efforts to “green” your Apple Fest are very inspiring because it increases accessibility for the mainstream public to sustainable and environmentally responsible practices and information. In our area, the long term effects of traditional apple farm practices continually present health problems with ground water contamination as well as loss of wildlife species.

You have a wonderful opportunity to use your festival as a platform to introduce and explore a plethora of “green” issues to improve the health and lives of all your citizens. Your event can be a building block for your community to come together, harvest the joint investment in your environment, while building a coalition to sustain and preserve all that you hold dear.

Great work! Keep going…the “green” path is quite contagious.
Blessings, Tina Masciarelli
Master of Liberal Arts Candidate, UNC-Asheville
Environmental Steward, Community Activist,& Sustainable Gardener

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