Just like last year, right at the end of the Haifa Green Festival, missiles arrived from Iran. A year ago, who had the nerve to summarize the festival?! But this time, and since we returned relatively quickly to routine, I decided to post anyway and share the great goodness we experienced.
The festival was a great success!
Nature Festival Environment Community and Sustainability
The goal of the festival is to connect residents and the general public to the community, nature, and greenery of Haifa, and to make environmental information accessible in an experiential way.
The festival, which was held in Haifa for the second year, was celebrated over 3 days and with over 50 different and diverse events throughout the city, produced by the Forum for Nature and Environment in Haifa and the Bay, produced by Letizia Pitali, and the Society and Community Department at the Haifa Municipality.
The variety of festival events
Community centers, community centers and community gardens, members of the Haifa and Bay Nature and Environment Forum, environmental and community activists and other volunteers took part together and held many activities for children, youth and adults, sustainability and nature workshops, renovation fairs, recycling and ecological creation, off-road riding, lectures and tours in the green and blue areas near the Haifai House. On the mountain, in the wadis, on the steps and even in Carmelit, along the sea and streams, following sea turtles or butterflies, birds and even hedgehogs and a wide variety of other activities for the whole family to celebrate nature and greenery in the city with them.
The main event at the Institute for Marine and Lake Research complex
Hundreds of residents attended the main event held on Friday at the Institute for Marine and Lake Research. The audience flocked to tour the coral and algae research laboratories. The children and parents dug in the dirt, created amulets from corn and mobiles from natural materials, and heard stories about streams and the sea. Many went on tours of the beach and Tel Shikmona, and also filled the auditorium to hear lectures on marine pollution, invasive species, and ecology in the Kishon River.
Haifa residents want green
The feeling we left the festival with was that Haifa residents are truly thirsty for community events that convey green environmental content, including learning experiences and information about what is happening in Haifa and how we can preserve urban nature and the quality of the city's environment.
Looking forward to the next festival, see you in 2027!
