Now in its fifth year, the Monarch Festival is Habitat For All's culminating educational annual event. Spanning two days, the Monarch Festival is a free, family-friendly event that promotes habitat and biodiversity conservation by empowering us to reimagine our backyards as sanctuaries for pollinators. It teaches us that even small acts can collectively make a big difference.  

Schedule of Events:

Keynote speaker: Ethan Tapper
Trustee's Auditorium
Gould Academy, Bethel
6:00 p.m.

Ethan Tapper is a man of many talents - forester, author, digital creator and a member of a punk band. Through his work as a private and community forester, Ethan has witnessed a spectrum of forest management approaches from clear cut to hands off.  How to Love a Forest walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest, introducing us to wolf trees and spring ephemerals, to the cryptic creatures of the rhizosphere and the necrosphere. It helps us reimagine what forests are and what it means to care for them. This world, Tapper writes, is degraded both by people who do too much and by those who do nothing. As the ecosystems that sustain all life struggle, we straddle a status quo that treats ecosystems as commodities and opposing claims that the only true expression of love for the natural world is to leave it alone.