It’s Earth Day tomorrow and Prince George’s Recycling and Environmental Action Planning Society (REAPS) is celebrating with a community event that includes free compost, free house and garden plants, recycling challenges and workshops.
REAPS executive director Terri McClymont says visitors can also enter to win a greenhouse, a composter and a rain barrel.
“It’s happening at REAPS Compost Demonstration Garden – 1950 Gorse St. On the corner of 20th and Gorse by Exploration Place. We start at 10 and go until 2 pm,” she says. “We have some children’s activities, we have community booths for information for the adults and we also have free compost and some plants to give away.”
McClymont says they have a selection of plants looking for new homes, some of them exotic.
“There’s some orchids, there’s a banana tree, there’s some household plants, some bulb type things…just a whole bunch of different things.”
If you don’t win the composter in the draw, you can learn to build your own from pallets in a free workshop beginning at noon. A second workshop will show you how to turn pallets into planter boxes.
McClymont says there will be crafts and relay races for the kids as well as dilly bars and freezies while they last.
All of the give-aways are “while supplies last” so if you’re keen to enrich your garden, make sure you drop by early, remember a bucket for the compost and learn about local environmental initiatives while you’re at it.
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