Retail Swap Customers it's time to collect you free compost!

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All active retail swap customers come by the Impact Earth Lifestyle store in Brighton to pick up your compost soil! Here is how it works:

1. Bring your bucket of food scraps to swap as you would a typical swap.

2. Pay $5 to swap your bucket swap.

3. Receive 5 gallons of compost!

4. Your compost will be delivered in your bucket that we return to you. You will need to dump out your compost soil in order to use your bucket to fill with food scraps. Let's help reduce our impact together by eliminating single use bags!

This weekend is also our GRAND OPENING! Come for live music, pop up vendors like Amanda's Native Garden, a puppet show at 11am and more!

Amanda's Native Garden is at Impact Earth to sell their perennials!

Come learn about indigenous plants during our second showing of Aubergine the Unicorn and the Missing Butterflies at 11am. Then shop local plants from Amanda's Native Gardens!

Learn more about the Nursery below:

Amanda's Native Garden, located in Sparta, NY, specializes in woodland native perennials. We also grow a variety of prairie and wetland plants. We are expanding our line of plants every year. Sparta is located in the Finger Lakes region of Western NY, south of beautiful Hemlock Lake. When you visit plan on spending some time in the Hemlock-Canadice State Forest.

Amanda's Native Garden has an excellent supply of nursery-propagated perennials ready for planting. These wonderful plants are thrilling additions to your garden. Do you have a shady spot or a spot with a little too much moisture? Try using native perennials to solve your gardening problems. These plants are durable, beautiful, and help provide food and habitat for butterflies, moths and birds.

Test your zero waste knowledge in our family friendly Jeopardy!

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Impact Earth is hosting a family freindly game night this month with a zero waste themed Jeopardy for all ages! Bring your family, yourself, and friends as we challenge your zero waste knowledge.

Stay after for an open game night! Impact Earth has a selection of house games you can play with or bring your own.

We will provide hot water and coffee throughout the night. There will be cookies and snacks for purchase.

Monday evening yoga classes at Impact Earth Lifestyle in Brighton!

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This trauma sensitive class is an hour long of supportive and calming somatic movement and yoga for your nervous system. Children 8+ are welcome to join with an adult!

Learn more about the teacher:

www.stretchingkindess.com

Erin Moriah R Wafer

500hr YTT - TCTSY-F - TIYT - Certified Prenatal YT - Certified Children YT & Baby + Me

Erin moves through life as a Certified Trauma Informed/ Trauma Sensitive Yoga & Movement Facilitator, Writer, Student of Somatic Studies, Learner, Early Childhood Educator, and most gratefully, a Mother.

Erin co-creates spaces with individuals where they may feel they have a body; a body that is absolutely worthy and deserving of respect, care and love, exactly as it is, right now. Her classes are an invitation to express, to play, to simply be and to rest.

Through exploration, interoception, and an invitation towards self-agency through the power of choice, it is Erin’s intent that we each can begin to explore what it would be like to feel a bit safer, integrated, and as though we have arrived home. She offers a space to lovingly return to the root of ourselves. Through this foundational feeling, may we all move through our bodies and within the world emanating our “enough-ness”.

Learn more about Er and each of her offerings at www.stretchingkindness.com

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Are you looking to support Sustainable Businesses in Rochester? This class will help you with more than that!

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In this class, learn to define and identify a "green" business and become aware of a deceptive business practice called “greenwashing.” Impact Earth has gathered information about businesses in the Rochester region that make it easier to live a zero-waste lifestyle. We continue to update the listing in order to promote companies that prioritize sustainability in their business practice.

Please join Nancy Steinkamp. Impact Specialist to discover how you can support the Green ROC Business movement.

Replace your plastics in your home! Easy and manageable tips to reducing your single-use plastic items you might not know you buy.

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Being zero waste is no easy feet, nor is it completely doable for most of us! Learn the basics to starting your low waste journey with Abigael Rice, Impact Earths Education Manager.

You will be given a questionaire prior to the class. This will inform you of what habits you would like to change first and others you are not ready to make. We will then go over easy switches, how to research items and what to look for, the savings you will make in the long run to switching, and where to buy them!

The class will be recorded. Sign up online at our Eventbrite page. Impact Earth Education.

Join Impact Earth and A Frog House for a fun filled afternoon as we learn and play with plants! This STEM event is for all!

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At 11am, Beth will start us off by reading the Lorax Book and follow it with a discussion about the meaning of the book and its importance. After, Bonnie, from A Frog House will guide us in a seed ball activity! While you create, you will learn how easy it can be to plant native plants, why trees and plants are vital to our environment, and why we want to preserve them. We will end the event with a game to teach participants about overfishing.

We hope you will join us for this free and fun event!

Are you interested in learning how to identify trees? Join us and learn about city tree scapes while we talk a walk.

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Impact Earth is hosting a guided walk through the Beechwood Neighborhood and will be teaching participants how to identify trees! All participants will leave with a pocket tree identification book. This will be a leisure walk.

Instructions on meet up location soon.

100% of the proceeds will go to a tree planting event in the fall where you are all welcome!

Planning your garden with pollinators and maintaining healthy soil with compost.

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This class if for those looking to dive a little deeper into sustainability by planning a sustainable garden! Learn from our guest speaker, Ellen Folts from Amanda's Native Gardens. Ellen will be sharing about pollinator plants and how to choose them for you garden. Abbi Rice, Impact Earth's Education Manager will then discuss soil health in more depth; what soil is composed of and what plants take from it, and go over the differences between compost and soil.

Sign up for this virtual zoom class through our Eventbrite page! Impact Earth Education.

Yoga with Sue Allen, every Tuesday!

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Susan feels truly blessed to meet yogis exactly where they are at when they roll out their mat. She channels healthy energy from the ground up, instilling positive thoughts of self, while cultivating a balanced physical, mental and emotional path. When the mind is scattered the body follows. Step in for an hour for YOUR SELF. Reiki energy healing, if you wish to receive.

Try our first class on April 4th at Impact Earth - on us!

Have you ever wondered what animals do when humans aren’t around? Come join Rosie and Ranger Fox to find out.

During this interactive program, participants will take a closer look at Rosie’s trail cameras and get the chance to see what has been caught on them during the winter months. We will also gain skills in tracking signs of animal life such as footprints, scat and more.

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Bring a plant or seed to swap with another! Plants can be swapped with plants and seeds can be swapped with seeds.

Plant and seed swaps are a great way to diversify your gardens and explore new varieties that you may not have grown yet!

Aprils puppet show is all about Recycling Right!

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Ranger Fox returns to his den to find that all kinds of trash has blown into it. What a mess! Does he have to clean it up all by himself? He is surprised by what he learns about his waste and the different choices he can make to keep it out of the landfill.

Learning Objectives/Messages:

• Reduce what’s going to the landfill

• Keep food out of the landfill - Consider composting

• Recycle properly

• Notice what’s filling up in landfill trash bin

• Learn to make product swaps

• One family doesn’t need to make perfect choices but many families doing better choices makes a difference.

Bring your native plant cuttings, seedlings, bulbs, and/or seeds to a free exchange event. Included for distribution are Butterfly Beltway Native Flower mix seeds remaining from ColorBrightonGreen’s 2022 give away.  Plant and seed swaps are a great way to diversify your gardens and explore new varieties that you may not have grown yet!

Also, if you have any extra 1 or 2 gallon pots, Color Brighton Green can use them for their tree program and you can drop them off at Impact Earth during business hours.

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Experience an extra special puppet show this month and make your very own mini butterfly garden!

In this special puppet show, see what butterflies and other pollinators need to live healthy and happy in your garden!

Aubergine the Unicorn is a butterfly expert. Her pollintor garden is a beautigul haven! But one day, all of the butterflies go missing. Can she solve the mystery and help them return?

Students will make native seed balls that can be planted at home or thrown into woods & meadows. Learn how easy it can be to plant native plants! While you create your seed ball, a Frog House will teach us why trees and plants are vital to our environment and why we want to preserve them.

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Seneca Park Zoo is bringing macroinvertebrates to talk about water pollution and have the participants help with sorting and identifying what macroinvertebrates are present.  We will also bring some biological artifacts of local species (i.e. turtle shell, otter pelt, etc.).

This fun and theatrical take on unicorns and species loss is a mythical creatures interpretation of how they might see the world today. This months puppet show led by ROC Animal School is entitled “The Unicorn Forest”.

Are unicorns on the endangered species list? What would happen if they moved back into to the forest? Would they be alarmed by how much things have changed? Join Razzle and Dazzle the Unicorns and find out!

Our puppet shows are free to attend and great for all ages!

Have you ever wondered what animals do when humans aren’t around? Come join Rosie and Ranger Fox to find out.

During this interactive program, participants will take a closer look at Rosie’s trail cameras and get the chance to see what has been caught on them during the winter months. We will also gain skills in tracking signs of animal life such as footprints, scat and more.

Led by ROC Animal School, this months puppet show is entitled “Smarty Fox”. This is the second instalment of the Smarty Fox episode!

A young fox discovers their passion for science, but her classmates don't share the same sentiment. A wave of interest emerges when a huge problem messes with the local food supply and it's up to Meadow Fox and Maxine Mouse to solve the case!

Our puppet shows are free to attend and great for all ages!

Impact Earth is showcasing the amazing female small business owners that we sell on our store! Stop by either of our locations to try samples from them all and learn a bit more about the owners.

Led by ROC Animal School, this months puppet show is entitled “Smarty Fox”.

A young fox discovers their passion for science, but her classmates don't share the same sentiment. A wave of interest emerges when a huge problem messes with the local food supply and it's up to Meadow Fox and Maxine Mouse to solve the case!

Our puppet shows are free to attend and great for all ages!

Join Nancy, our Impact Specialist every second Thursday of the month to receive hands on zero waste programming for your household. She is committed to supporting households’ move toward a zero waste lifestyle.

This class will help you learn to transform your old greeting cards into new ones and be prepared for all of your celebrations. A variety of techniques and how to use supplies will be demonstrated and you will be able to create your own unique designs. Basic supplies will be provided, but If you have any of the items below, please bring them. 

A system for keeping your cards organized will also be shared. What a great way to upcycle your cards and share with the people you care about.

Suggested Materials: 

• Old greeting or holiday cards

• Paper–Card stock– (old file folders work great) Lightweight (colored or white)

• Cutting Materials–Paper Trimmer, Scissors (plain or assorted edges) Craft Punches

• Adhesives–Glue sticks, Dots and Glue guns , 2 sided tape

• Embellishments–Ribbon, Puff paint

Braddock Bay Raptor Research has been studying birds of prey during migration in the Rochester area for decades. Keeping tabs on the birds in our world gives valuable information on the health of our ecosystems. Learn how bird banding, field surveys, and migration counts enable researchers to learn more about birds and the environment.

Join us for our first Puppet Show of 2023! Led by ROC Animal School, this month is entitled “Fit Like a Zebra”.

A zebra escapes from the local zoo and gets the whole forest in a frenzy about lions. Are the local animals in shape enough to outrun a lion? Are you fit like a zebra?

Our puppet shows are free to attend and great for all ages!

Come visit GreenSpark Energy at the Impact Earth store at Eastview Mall on Saturday, 12/10 from 11-3! GreenSpark is the largest residential, community and commercial solar provider in Rochester, Central. First 5 folks to sign up for a solar consultation will get an Impact Earth gift card!