The Nature League is holding a Green and Healthy Living Festival at the Curling Club on Hume Street in Collingwood Sept. 12-13.
Proceeds from the event are going towards the development of the Stayner Eco-park, which is located beside the sewage treatment plant, near Stayner Collegiate Institute.
Clearview Township has acquired land beside the treatment plant, and is combining that with the land that the plant is currently sitting on to develop the park, where there already a pond and some trees.
This area, which is currently under development, is known as a birding hotspot, with over 200 species of birds documented to date.
Together with Clearview Township, Stayner Collegiate is building kiosk signs, and a variety of habitat shelters, including birdhouses, bat houses, butterfly boxes, pollinator hotels, sand piles for swallows, and brush piles.
There will also be a bird blind to view birds without disruption, as well as accessible trails and a pond board walk.
Clearview Township has joined with the school to work on the eco-park and the Nature League is working hard to support this effort.
Admission to the Green and Healthy Living Festival is free. There will be a silent auction, children’s activities, a fashion show, speakers, refreshments and entertainment.
For more information, please visit festival.natureleague.ca.