The QCHCA Climate Action Committee was pleased to be invited to participate in the Holiday Craft Fair this year! We thought long and hard about what we could ‘sell’ on our table and promote the Association as well…. The answer was – Climate-Friendly gifting!
We stocked kits to grow microgreens as a climate-friendly gifting idea for kids or adults! People were able to pick up an envelope of WestCoast microgreen seeds, a small bag of soil and an egg carton ‘planter’ – all free, and everything you need to sprout these
healthy greens all winter inside.
We also demonstrated many ways to wrap gifts without using commercial wrapping (did you know that in Canada we throw out over 400,000 TONS of non-recyclable gift bags/wrap every year?) Using fabric, newspaper, old maps, old music sheets and brown paper we wrapped a variety of ‘gifts’.
Here are the website resources we shared:
Never Buy Gift Paper Again: the Ultimate Guide to Zero Waste Wrapping
https://davidsuzuki.org/living-green/your-guide-green-holidays/
For those who were curious, the holiday prints on the brown paper were made using an xacto knife to carve the design on a potato which was then painted with acrylic and stamped. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting and talking with so many people and hearing of their support for QCHCA and their ideas for a climate-friendly gifting season!
