Every Day is Earth Day Festival is back this year! Visit https://www.everydayisearthdayfest.org/ for more details! Thursday 4/20 – “The Need to Grow” Screening at the Kress Pavilion 7-9pm – Kress Pavilion Hosted at the Kress Pavilion, a screening of “Need to Grow,” a documentary highlighting the environmental challenges faced by farmers, the agricultural industry, and…
Gather your neighbors and join our third annual, Community Clean up! Either join the Village staff and business community on Thursday, May 18 or coordinate a clean up in your area at a time that works best for you that week. Those who choose to sign up for May 18, will be contacted by Village…
Thank you for supporting the Kress Pavilion’s Car Charging Station. Click one of the links below to make a donation. Make your $20 donation by clicking here. Make your $10 donation by clicking here. Make your $5 donation by clicking here.
The Village is excited to announce that it will offer compost pick up once again starting this month! The program kicked off in 2019 when the Village expanded its yard waste compost program to include food waste. With the help of the DNR and our Compost University-trained Public Works team, a pilot program was launched…
July 21st 1 PM Back by popular demand, join us for Landscape Painting for beginners! Create gorgeous landscape paintings on canvas in this relaxing class, designed for beginners and intermediate students. Work directly from your favorite photographs of places you love or use one from instructor, Liz Heller. We will begin our course with a…
Children’s Summertime Watercolor Art Class! June 21 Exercise the imagination at our water color for kids class. Designed for children 4-12, this class is taught by renowned Door County Artist, Kari Anderson. A follow-the-leader approach, the class will break it down into basics and baby steps with an emphasis on fun. 10 am $15 per…
Herbalist David LaLuzerne and Village of Egg Harbor Host Forage & Feast: Dandelion Dinner Proceeds benefit Village of Egg Harbor’s Green Tier Initiatives As a cap off to Village of Egg Harbor’s No Mow May, you are invited to join Herbalist, David LaLuzerne for a delicious event to celebrate the humble dandelion. Often viewed as…
Join us for our second annual No Mow May! Together with Lawrence University and 25 cities across Wisconsin, the Village of Egg Harbor Green Tier Taskforce invites you to park your mower and feed the first pollinators of the season. The initiative, kicked off by Lawrence in 2019 has been scientifically proven to grow the…
“Wisconsin’s Busy Bees” as part of No Mow May Wednesday, May 4 at 7 pm Honey bees and bumble bees are common and recognizable, but Wisconsin is home to a diverse array of nearly 500 bee species. This presentation will take a close look at the daily lives of Wisconsin’s many busy bees and the…
Tuesday, May 17th at 9 AM Mathys Residence: 7695 Evergreen Rd, Egg Harbor Garlic Mustard is one of those noxious weeds the Village is focusing on irradicating. This is a species that blooms in spring and drops around 1,000 seeds per plant in early June. The program will include a presentation by Sam Koyen from…
This weekend! Join us for Every Day is Earth Day, four days of Earth Care events. Thursday at Crossroads at Big Creek a screening of “Kiss the Ground” – 6:30 pm. Free Friday at Northern Sky Theater Gould Theater: An Earth Day Show Featuring Music, Poetry, and Prose. – 7 pm. $10 suggested donation. Saturday…
In partnership with the Climate Change Coalition, the Village of Egg Harbor is once again making it easy for our residents to be part of the Big Plant! What is the Big Plant? – For the second year in a row, the Climate Change Coalition is promoting an initiative to get trees to community members…
Gather your neighbors and join our second annual, Community Clean up! Either join the Village staff and business community on Thursday, May 12 or coordinate a clean up in your area at a time that works best for you that week. Those who choose to sign up for May 12, will be contacted by Village…
(Egg Harbor) Robert Rodale, J.I. Rodale’s son, coined the term “regenerative organic” to distinguish a kind of farming that goes beyond sustainable. He proved that soil health is intrinsically linked to the total health of our food system. On Saturday, March 19, the Village of Egg Harbor and Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens and Léa Vereecke, from the…
Join us at the Kress Pavilion on April 7 at 6pm. We will share a meal and updates on all of the wonderful things we have going on in the village and opportunities to get involved with the Green Tier Task Force! Open to all! Let us know you’re coming and RSVP here
In the Summer of 2021, the Village hired Eland Electric to install a solar array on the south end of the property. The array features bi facial panels that generate power from both sides to make use of the reflection of the snow in the winter. Staff was trained on how to tilt the panels…
Every Day is Earth Day Festival is back in person this year! The festival kicks off on Thursday night at Crossroads with a screening of “Kiss the Ground.” Then on Friday night at Northern Sky’s Gould Theater, there will be an Earth Day Show featuring live music, prose and poetry. On Saturday we will host…
Karen Newbern, Master Gardener and Nursery Manager of Door Landscape & Nursery, will present ways to attract a variety of birds to your yard. Learn how you can use “birdscaping” to make your yard a desirable haven for our feathered friends. Watch on Zoom or Facebook Live! Contact: Jeanine, 920-868-2664 Click here to watch the…
Thanks to the Door County Seed Library you can pick up FREE Seeds at the Egg Harbor Seed Library! From the Seed Library: We are excited to announce that on Tuesday, March 2, we are releasing seed bundle #1 to existing Door County Seed Library members. This seed bundle contains 11+ packets of seeds for…
Join us for a virtual event all about invasive species education! This four-part series will take place seasonally, with our first event focusing around winter identification, treatment, and removal of invasive species. Door County Conservationist and DCIST Coordinator, Samantha Koyen, and Egg Harbor Sustainability Coordinator, Lydia Semo, will be leading this presentation. Watch on Zoom…
As of early 2020 Electric Car Owners are now able to get charged at the Kress Pavilion! In the spring of 2020 the village installed four donated electric car charging stations.The chargers were donated by Tesla and Egg Harbor resident and electric vehicle owner, Bill Freyman. “It’s the 21st Century and electric vehicles are the…
Village of Egg Harbor looks to the Future with Solar Panel Installation at Kress Pavilion Community’s Green Tier Initiatives and Village Mission Realized with Green Power FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Egg Harbor)—January 15, 2020—This week the Village of Egg Harbor Trustees approved a public bid by Eland Electric of Green Bay to install ground-mounted solar panels…
Most of the flowers are gone and those that remain are fading. So this class will focus on gathering roots and barks to use during the coming winter. We’ll also take a look at the world of fungi, so active at this time of year. It’s hard to believe that winter is near! This was…
Learn how to use a metal detector, where to search and how to find an object. This was a Zoom and Facebook live event. See video below. Video – Get Close to Nature as a Detectorist
Learn how to collect and use common natural products (plants, flowers, bark) to make your own fabric dye. Create a unique, natural pattern and learn how you can get material to create one for yourself. Click below to view the live program video! Video: Natural Dye Program
Join us in this virtual program to learn how we, as a community, have the choice to support sustainable measures. Members of the Green Tier Task Force will discuss the importance of sustainability in Egg Harbor, which can be expanded to other communities, as well. The group will cover the positive environmental and economic impacts…
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By: Dylan Lennie (Thu July 2, 2020) Here are some ways that you can be more sustainable in your daily life! This short list is not meant to be overwhelming or the end all be all, but is simply meant to show the average person how possible it is to be more environmentally conscious in…
Thank you to all who attended the first ever, 2019 Every Day is Earth Day Festival! The planning committee is working hard to figure out how to develop an online version of Every Day is Earth Day Festival. Stay tuned as we bring you more updates. April 22nd, 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of Earth…