GETI Fest gets busy
A festival held in Maple Ridge showcased eco-friendly ways to work, live, and play in the community.
Twins Julie and Lisa Senger, of Twin Buds Flowers, were at GETI Fest in Memorial Peace Park on Saturday to sell bouquets of flowers they grew on a piece of property their uncle let them use.
Photograph by: Sylver McLaren , TIMES
The second annual GETI Fest was an eco-friendly success at Memorial Peace Park today, according to an organizer.
GETI (Golden Ears Transition Initiative) Fest organizer Gerry Pinel said the event was ‘fabulous.”
“GETI Fest is all about community. This is what it’s really about. It’s about drawing all the different people together and creating a village atmosphere where everybody knows everybody else and you can work, live, and play in your own community,” said Pinel.
Lisa Eastham, who made the hanging signs for each village, said the attendance was great.
“It has been amazing, this is our second year and its bigger and better. It’s been awesome, and I’m so pleased with the turn out.
This year’s festival included four villages – an eco-village that showcased GETI action groups, community organizations, and local businesses, an artisan village with 30 exhibitors, a village with the regular Saturday Haney Farmers Market, and the fourth village was the Girl Guides.
GETI is an organization that promotes sustainable, resilient, and vibrant communities and the festival is meant to showcase its many facets.
