earthfest miami 2010

Earth Fest Miami 2010

earthfest miami 2010

Join us on April 18th for the LARGEST, most EXCITING Earth Day celebration in South Florida!

Expand The Love, in collaboration with Earth Learning, Miami-Dade County and the South Florida Spiritual Community, PRESENT:

EarthFest 2010

Sunday, April 18th
Crandon Park Visitor’s Center & Nature Center
6767 Crandon Blvd Key Biscayne FL 33149

12pm-8pm

This is the 40th Earth Day Anniversary Celebration and the FOURTH Annual EarthFest!…a beautiful day for the whole family filled with live MUSIC, amazing WORKSHOPS for the mind, body, spirit and EARTH, sustainability, vendors, delicious FOOD, CEREMONY, drumming, RAW FOOD demonstrations, NATURE walks, ART, and so much more!

Experience powerful MUSIC, SPOKEN WORD, CEREMONY, VISIT THE HEALING SANCTUARY ….

PLUS we will be spinning music composed just for EarthFest from DJ SPAM of Spam Allstars!

Bring your DRUMS and other instruments for our evening DRUM CIRCLE at 7pm!

Participate in Amazing Workshops all day, including:

– Yoga w/ Green Monkey http://www.greenmonkey.net/
– Qigong w/ Jared Krupnick http://energeticqigong.com/
– Organic gardening
– Sacred Sound Healing w/ Eric Dez http://www.ericdez.com/ and Randall – Rodriguez http://www.singingbowlguru.com
– Every Child Outdoors
– Raw food preparation
– Dance/Movement Therapy w/ Michele Iemolo http://www.uri-1.com/
– Transformational Breathwork
– Deep Ecology/Connecting with the Earth w/ Val Silidker http://www.thevoiceoftheearth.com/about.htm
– The Big Glow: Discovering the Light Within w/ Brian Piergrossi http://thebigglow.com
– Permaculture with Marcus Thomson http://www.permacultureguild.us/
and More!

EarthFest is a beautiful day of honoring EARTH, celebrating community, and strengthening our minds, bodies, and spirits for the transformation of ourselves and our world!

Come experience true sustainability and consciousness with Expand the Love, Earth Learning, and our entire South Florida Family!

$10 Suggested Donation
*with opportunities to win some fabulous earth-conscious GIFTS!*

Bring: Concert blanket/portable chair, Re-usable water bottles (free refills provided), Drum / instrument for drum circle, Any electronics & computer equipment to recycle.

Sponsored by:
Whole Foods Market :: DisneyNature’s Oceans :: MDC Earth Ethics Institute ::Comm. Carlos A. Gimanez, Dist. 7 :: CBS Outdoor Advertising :: Friends of WLRN :: Miami New Times :: Natural Awakenings Magazine :: Edible South Florida Magazine

*If you are interested in being a sponsor, volunteering, or vending, contact us at Val@ExpandTheLove.com

Moon Cookies

Sat Nam!
Here’s a little background…
The first time I had a cookie like these was from a dear yogini friend who had brought to Sadhana. I liked them so much I went online and searched for oatmeal vegan recipes and found a very basic oatmeal cookie recipe I knew I could twist to my liking…so I went to work. The outcome was this fabulous recipe which is very easy to put together and tons of fun to have in the process. Every Full Moon Kundalini Meditation on the beach event we go to I like to bring these cookies along …hence the name “Moon Cookies”. Thanks to the yummy ingredients they are a hit wherever I go because they please every palate.
I hope you enjoy baking them as much as I do, and fine-tune them to your palate’s enjoyment if you feel the need. ^_^

Moon Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

– 3/4 cup of vegan margarine (Earth Balance is good)
– 3/4 cup brown sugar (or can do 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 agave nectar, or real maple syrup)
– 1 T vanilla
– 1/2 cup almond milk (note: if after adding the dry ingredients it looks too dry add another 1/4 cup of milk or less, gradually)
– 1 cup unbleached flour (can use almond flour or cashew flour)
– 1/4 t baking powder
– 1/4 t fresh ginger, finely minced (ginger powder is a good alternative)
– 1/4 t cloves, ground (i prefer to grind w/mortar and pestle just before tossing into the mix)
– 1/2 t cinnamon
– 1/4 t nutmeg
– 3 cups oatmeal
– 1 cup dried cranberries (or 1/2 cranberries and 1/2 raisins)
– 1/2 cup almonds
– 1/2 walnuts
– 1/4 cup coconut flakes

Preparation:

-Cream together margarine and sugar until smooth
-Add vanilla and milk
-Mix well
-Add flour, baking powder and spices and mix well, then stir in oats, cranberries/raisins, almonds and walnuts
-Spoon 1 1/2 inch balls onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake 10 – 15 min at 350º ..or until done.