"The Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Festival returns to the Village at Squaw Valley for one of the largest Earth Day celebrations in the area. This free community event gives kids and adults the opportunity to learn about recycling, composting, alternative energy, and sustainability through hands-on activities the whole family can enjoy.  At a diverse array of earth-friendly educational booths displayed throughout the day, participants can get dirty in the compost zone, explore new ways to recycle, learn about solar energy, and check out children's activities and brain teasers hosted by The Discovery."

Besides exceptional opportunities to learn, we ran into exceptional people as well. This is an anniversary of sorts. When we moved to Tahoe in 2012, we volunteered at an Earth Day event. There we met Sierra State Parks Foundation's Heidi. She opened so many doors and provided us with so many incredible opportunities over the past seven years. What fun to see her today.
Today's event encouraged us to open our minds.

We learned how to make seed bombs, also known as "earth balls" or nendo dango. They consist of a variety of different seeds rolled within a ball of clay, preferably volcanic pyroclastic red clay. Seed bombing is a technique of introducing vegetation to land by throwing or dropping these seed orbs. So fun.

The subject matter varied from paint recycling...
...to healthy bear poop. Yes, a diverse day indeed.
 There was even live music to give us all something to dance to.