Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show

New Year with NEW Ways of Living More Naturally!
3 Days Only!

America’s 1^st Sustainable Home & Garden Show We Make Green Stylish & Fun! 7th Annual Show Returns January 20-22, 2012 it's smart & stylish! it's fun & fresh! Friday 5pm-9pm Saturday 10am-8pm Sunday 10am-5pm Lane Events Center ~ Fairgrounds 13th & Jefferson, Eugene, Oregon Free Admission with Canned Food Donations FOOD For Lane County Create a better HOME, GARDEN & LIFE information: This year's show opens for just 3 days, with over 250 exhibits, and 59 seminars! Stroll 2 acres packed full of earth-friendly exciting and informative exhibits grouped into 7 Pavilions of Sustainable Style. Meet leading experts in architecture, green building, design, naturescaping, gardening and sustainable living. Home and garden authors and experts on sustainable homes, gardens, cooking, and good earth living are joining us. Good HOMES • Good GARDENS • Good 2 GO • Good 2 RECYCLE • ARTS District • Good FOOD • Good LIVING • Good Earth Music Stage NOW This You Gotta See!

It's Fresh & Fun! KEZI-9 presents the Living Pavilion! Alpaca's, Artists, Slugtastic Stories & Kids Crafts Oh My! KEZI-9 presents Good Earth Café & Music Stage Live Music! Fun! Located in the North Hall Sit back & enjoy wine, sustainable cusine, and Café Maam Espresso. Friday 5:30 pm Red Pajamas - rhythm & blues 7:15 pm Blue Duo - rhythm & blues Saturday 10:00 am Passin' Notes - 50's, 60's, 70's in lobby 11:00 am Two Doors Down - eclectic, acoustic music 12:30 pm Oak Hill School's Glee Club & Band 12:30 pm Passin' Notes - 50's, 60's, 70's in lobby 2:00 pm Fiddlin Big Sue Band - folk & bluegrass 3:30 pm My Father's Ghost – acoustic classic rock 5:00 pm Carl “Bus Man” Faddis - guitarist 6:30 pm Bajuana Tea – acoustic blues & rock Sunday 11:00 am Blue Duo & Friends - rhythm & blues 12:30 pm Horsehead Sallies – folk & bluegrass 2:00 pm Charlie Snellings - bluegrass & soul 3:30 pm Strange Charm – original blues, jazz

It's Smart & Stylish! KVAL-TV presents 59 Smart & Stylish Seminars - a few highlights: Learn from the Northwest's best experts on everything from Bee Keeping to Extreem Green Passive House's! Find out what makes a sustainable lawn, how to choose the RIGHT backyard chicken, and how to grow exotic figs & kiwis! Learn how to create a timeless kitchen, create backyard bird habitats, and go solar! Meet some of the best plant experts: tips for planting medicinals and growning your own delicious fruit. Discover wellness, biking, and natural health care wisdom. 59 Seminars in just 2.5 days! Now this you gotta see! Just click on the tab for the full listing of the 2012 Good Earth Seminars. Saturday Night 5:30pm - STUMP THE CHUMPS! With Your Pruning & Fruit Tree Questions to Win Chump Change $$ (show bucks). Panel of Chumps! Nathaniel Sperry, Lowell Cordas, Jim Gilbert & John Fischer KVAL-TV presents The UO Duck Shop - NW Authors Talks & Book Signings! see the full schedule by clicking on the seminars tab Saturday 10:30am - 1:30pm Join Author Carol Deppe! FOUR Resilient Gardener Workshops: Growing Food in Uncertain Times: Crops you need to survive and thrive--Potatoes, Corn, Beans, Squash, and Eggs! From growing & fixing polenta to raising a flock of laying ducks at home! Each workshop will be followed by a seed sale and book signing. Click on the Good Earth Seminars tab on the left to select from 57 talks! Saturday 4:00pm - Sustainable Lawns & Ground Covers Sunday 12noon - Growing Food in Containers & Small Spaces Join Rose marie Nichols McGee, Nichols Garden Nursery, Co- Author of "Bountiful Container" Book Signing follows. Saturday 3:30pm Kim Cooper Findling, Author & Travel Writer, presents "Day Trips for Portland, OR" Learn how to make the most of a breif getaway in Oregon! Staycations are budget friendly & more sustainable too! Book Signing follows with the UO Duck Store at the show! Sunday, 12noon Join Author Evenlyn Hess for a reading of her much praised book: "To the Woods: Sinking Roots, Living Lightly and Finding True Home". Book Signing follows with the UO Duck Store at the show! Sunday, 1:00pm Renee Wilkinson, Author & Blogger, presents "Modern Homestead: Grow, Raise, Create" Discover urban chicks, growing food, and the modern, hip homestead style from this Portland, Oregon blogger. KEZI-9 presents Slugtastic Storytime & Kid's Crafts with Holy GoSlugly! Join Eugene's Slug Queen Saturday & Sunday - 12noon (off North Hall, Room 2, by Muesum) KVAL-TV Won't You Be My Green Neighbor? at the Conversation Courtyard! Click on the tab for Good Earth Seminars for the Schedule of Green Neighbor Activities Show visitors can join 14 conversations related to creating a more sustainable neighborhood. Join a conversation about neighborhood gardens, beekeeping, solar cooking, herbs & medicinals and even worm composting! Neighbors have never been more valuable - we need each other! Join the Neighborhood Leader's Council Committee on Sustainability in the Conversation Courtyard located in the brick hallway. Find out how to come together in various ways to create more sustainable and eco-friendly neighborhood! Click on the Good Earth Seminars for the full line up of Green Conversation Courtyard (Green CC) talks. We’ve got such great people watching at the show! Rooster "Rod Stewart" resides over the aisle in the Garden Pavilion enjoying the view too! We couldn’t do any of this without our wonderful vendors and sponsors like KVAL-TV, KEZI-9 and the Register Guard. Only in OREGON!