Earth Fest 2025

Scenes from

Past Earth FestS

Earth Fest 2025

April 26th 10a.m. – 2 p.m.

Hailey’s first Earth Fest happened 5 years ago - 50 years after the first Earth Day was established as an international day to recognize our amazing earth and recommit to our continued stewardship of the delicate environmental balance of our planet. Our Earth Day Festival (shortened to “Earth Fest”) continues to grow and change and this year is no exception.

A Sneak Peek at this year’s Earth Fest

Earth Fest 2025 is all about exploring circularity of our material goods and involves all the ordinary and fantastic things we each can do in our daily lives to maintain the Earth as a habitable planet. The concept of circularity is summed up in this poster and is more often known by the many Re’s it includes: reduce, reuse, refurbish, repair, repurpose, regenerate, rethink, etc.

Earth Fest activities

The day will begin with our Earth Fest Five K Fun Run

for the whole family

Registration begins at 9 a.m. and Race begins at the start of all of our Earth Fest Activities - 10:00 a.m.

Community Trunk Sale / Second Hand Sidewalk Sale

Get a jump start on spring yard sales and enjoy our Circularity Culture

with 15 local sellers all in one place and information tables

from The Gold Mine, The Advocates Attic, and The Barkin’.

Our Neighbors’ spring cleaning brings great 2nd hand items for sale

Fix-It Clinic

Town Center West will be buzzing with our ever-growing Repair Clinic! Get help with your broken stuff and learn valuable repair skills at this free Fix-It Clinic. Bring in your broken, torn, stained or worn items to get some guided assistance from a volunteer coach with repair skills to troubleshoot, and (hopefully) fix small household appliances, textiles, lamps, dull blades, home furnishings, wooden items, etc.

Visible Mending and Darning is taught and coached at the 2nd Hand Repair table

Local coaches helped people learn how to repair small electronic home goods

without damaging themselves or their items

Repurposing ‘waste’ items

Individuals, groups and businesses share how to make something new and fun out of items we tend to use and just throw away.

Plastic bottle tops transform into a butterfly selfie wall - Hailey Library

Old bike tires get remade into earrings and bracelets -Trailhead Bikes

People of all ages got to try their hands at weaving with yarn made from old t-shirts

Like the first Earth Day 55 years ago, Earth Fest is half Festival and half Teach-In. Our Activities Tables, sponsored and brought to you by 15 of our local non-profits, organizations, and governmental departments, are a big part of that mash-up with their hands-on activities to share some Circularity options that are fun for everyone. From learning more about our local recycling efforts to silk screening 2nd hand t-shirts to Repurposing Troublesome Plastics and making your own garden seedballs - the variety and fun is lined up for both DIY fun and a few important facts.

Join in on the fun and enjoy everything our community brings to the (Activities) Tables!

We want to shout out a special thanks to our wonderful valley organizations that work year round to take care of our natural world and our wonderful community here in the valley:
Sun Valley Institute for Resilience, ERC, Winn’s Compost, Trailhead Bikes, 5B Can, Wood River Land Trust, The Nature Company, Idaho Conservation League and the Youth Salmon Protectors, CACWRV, SV Community School’s Green Team and Community Tables, Just Serve, WATER Club, Friends of the Hailey Public Library, Dark Skies, Building Material Thrift Store, The Advocates, and Bloom Gardens.

Raffles, games and prizes

Food trucks and music

All brought to you by some of the fine people of our valley!

How can YOU get involved?

We could use your help to make this event better again this year!

(contact CACWRV@gmail.com for these and other ways to help out)

Volunteers for Earth Fest

Donations of small ‘like-new’ items for our 2nd hand bingo prizes
People to check in and check out repairs at our Fix-It Clinic – April 26
Handy people who have skills in repair of textiles (visible mending and darning), electronics, ceramics, or more
A person to help with a simple weaving project (no experience necessary)
Sidewalk chalk artists to lead pedestrians to our Earth Fest – April 26
A few hardy souls to help with set up or clean up of our event – 1 hour
People to help make signs and posters in early April
15 people with a carload of 2nd hand to sell at our Trunk Sale