Over 20,000 people have joined in the festivities at the Fundacion's annual World Environment Day held since June, 2000. Educating and inspiring the citizens of Tecate to respect and celebrate the environment with fun-filled activities such as: petting zoos (including marine life); insect exhibitions; desert mushroom exhibitions; car oil disposal workshops; regional watershed education; face painting; dramatic storytelling; and live theater. Festival participants are treated to delicious traditional Mexican foods, regional music, and dance. Fundaci�n La Puerta provides free exhibition space to many local and regional governmental and non for profit organizations to showcase their important work on a host of environmental issues. This concentration of key organizations in the environmental field, brings hands-on learning and exposure of many critical ecological issues directly to the citizens of Tecate. Schools, researchers, and museums also are given booth space to share information on such topics as home made biodiesel, and composting and the demonstration water quality provided by the local Tecate Water Authority.
One Beet + One Pot= You are a Gardener!
Repot a beet, a gift from a San Diego local organic farmer. Keep the Beet. Grow & Eat the Greens. Regain confidence you can grow food & your beat with nature! Root Your Dreams too with beet seeds! Professor Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, Mexico hero, namesake of Professor's Park, inspired
this idea.
News Release for Las Piedras U.N. World Environment Day--
June 5. Keep The Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking beet plant,
and her Chauffeur Leslie Goldman, Enchanted Gardener, and the Enchanted
Garden Mobile, their 68 VW van, will be sharing local San Diego organic beets, beet seeds to root dreams, and love with the kids of Tecate, Mexico at U.N World Environment Day at Professor's Park, Professors Park adjoins acclaimed Las Pierdras Environmental Center.
For more about Keep The Beet and her project to create a world of gardeners
one pot at a time and in doing so help every body remember our beat with nature, visit Beet Keepers of the World Unite, on the World Wide Web.
"Friendship is a river that knows no boundaries," said Keep The Beet Media
Star, the future TV cartoon personality and USDA Czarina of Foods. "While
the U.S. celebrates Earth Day, most of the world celebrates Mother Earth
on World Environment Day. Cross the border, June 5 and join hands
with the kind hearted people of Tecate."
The idea of growing a beet in a pot was inspired by the late Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, co-founder of Rancho La Puerta, the leading destination Spa, and the namesake of Professor's park. Deborah Szekley, a model of gifting back and encouraging volunteerism, is one of the biliqual beets favorite people in the world, said Keep The Beet. Deborah, among her
many projects is the founder of the New American Museum in Liberty Park,
home of Keep The Beet's recording studio. Professor's Park and the Las
Pierdas Environment Center are funded through the Fundacion La Puerta.
Make donations here.
The visit to Tecate is co-sponsored by the local Hillcrest Farmer's Market Beet Keeper Alliance, The Enchanted Garden Growers Network, HIllcrest Whole Foods Market (proposed), and Biosmart, the world's leading Green compost friendly take out containers made from formerly throwaway sugar cane bagasse.
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