Earth Day Jam

04/29/2026

Seeeee… 🙏🏽🌱🥰🌱

04/28/2026

Happy Roots is quickly back to work in school and community gardens! Thank you all for supporting this work, especially to Trinity Oaks - A Senior Living Community for keeping Happy Roots going and growing all these years and for their sponsorship of Earth Day Jam! Amazing people they are that do much for our seniors, families, and our whole community. We’re honored and grateful to have their support! 🙏🏽❤️🌱

04/25/2026

This! Support Happy Roots work to get youth outside in outdoor classrooms, like the school garden, to take back their health and the future for all of us! 🌱

04/24/2026

One way you can make is by buying and eating local. 🌱🌎

Supporting local farmers and growers keeps land in agriculture, and protects it from being sold off, developed, or turned into something that further disconnects us from our food and our roots. It also cuts down on food miles.

This year at Earth Day Jam, and at every Happy Roots event, we choose local. We’re proud to put our money where our mission is… by once again sourcing as much as possible locally… and dedicating our event budget right back to our community.

🍔 Farm-to-Festival Burgers
Brown Farm BEEF (Mt. Ulla, NC) *lettuce from Spring Lake Family Farms (Albemarle, NC), and * crays homemade potato salad

🌾 VIP Farm-to-Festival Tent Brunch (Thank you Sweet Meadow Cafe for preparing)
Wood Grove Farm (Mt. Ulla, NC)
McLaughlin's Sausage (Moorseville, NC) Sausage and Livermush
*Historic Bost Grist Mill (Concord, NC) grits
*Patterson Farm Market & Tours, Inc. (Mt. Ulla, NC) strawberries & jam, and *Mother's Finest Urban Family Farms (Winston-Salem, NC) honey

🥗 Board Highlights by Chef Quinta Ellis Fleming Street - Bakery & Southern Cuisine
Brown Farm Beef meatballs
Street Fare Farm, Collard dip (Concord, NC)
Bacon jam deviled eggs with fresh eggs from Emmanuel’s Homestead (Winston Salem, NC)

🔥Frank C. Corriher BBQ (China Grove NC) smoked, prepared, and donated by Greg Page & Kelly Page

🍗 Entrée by Chef Q (Fleming Street - Bakery & Southern Cuisine)
Grilled organic chicken thighs from René Mercado’s ranch (China Grove, NC)
Mushroom risotto with * gourmet farms mushrooms
Street Fare Farm Kale & Swiss Chard salad with *Patterson Farm strawberry vinaigrette (made with Childress Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc)
Spring samosas
*School garden grown sweetpotato & Street Fare Farm Kohlrabi gazpacho

🥂Garden-to-Glass
Farmer’s Daughter Organics Lavender syrup in our Tito's Handmade Vodka lemonade
Farm-to-mug Mean Mug Coffee Company

We invest in our neighbors. Gotta keep ‘em around.

(*Special thanks to those who were also able and willing to donate towards the cause.)

04/24/2026

Parents and music educators are raising serious concerns about Regina Public’s proposed changes to the elementary band program and the creation of a centralized music education centre.

The plan could mean reduced instructional time, increased travel for students, and a watered-down band experience with Grade 6 students losing band altogether.

Add your voice and help ensure students continue to have access to high-quality music education by emailing the trustees today.

Email decision-makers now!
Click here to reach them immediately and access our template letter:
https://tinyurl.com/ReginaBand

We encourage emails from all Canadians regardless of province.

We also urge you to phone the office of Regina Public Schools to express your concern and the need for public and expert consultation. Mark Haarmann, Director of Education/CEO, Phone: (306) 523-3000

Saskatchewan Music Educators Association - SMEA SaskMusic Save the Regina Public Schools Band Program

04/24/2026

Somebody’s looking for this!

I promised a parent that I would post this photo up. I'm unsure if they followed me here or not, but I wanted to follow through. It was cool at the Earth Day Jam Saturday and as Red Panda was about to play a kid asked if I would take a photo of him hitting a ball with a glow in the dark bat of some kind so I said sure. Here is that photo.

04/23/2026

We want to give a huge shoutout to Daisy Wicker for stepping up big time this year as Co-Event Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator! 🌱✨ Can’t tell you how many volunteer hours she’s dedicated to this event over the past months.

brought incredible organization, attention to detail, and a creative eye for design through her work with 🌼
She also holds it down as a manager at our local sponsor , where her and Mollie helped print most of our merch at their shop. 👕

And as if that wasn’t enough… Daisy was still able to sing for us and hit the ROOTS stage with her band 🎶 (Check them out this Saturday for the AnniBEERsary!)

We also have to give a HUGE shoutout to her dad, Brian Lisk, an absolute MVP, who donated all the concrete through his biz NJ’s Concrete that we used for all our tent weights…➡️ 40 lbs per leg per Fire Marshal… and yes, Fire Marshal approved 💪🔥 (Consider renting these out for your events!)

Sincere THANK YOU, Daisy, for all your help and coordination! You brought structure to a lot of moving parts, even when the day threw curveballs at us. You’re amazing! Couldn’t have done it without you. 🙏🏽

04/23/2026

Thank you Moon Daze Photography!🌙

04/23/2026

Thank you Moon Daze! 🙏🏽❤️🌱🌎

04/22/2026

Thanks again Datrian and Red Panda!