Gateway Technical College will once again spotlight the environment with its annual Celebrate Earth Day, featuring fun, hands-on activities for all ages to learn how to be stewards of the environment.

Celebrate Earth Day will be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 21 on Gateway’s Kenosha Campus, 3520-30^th Ave. and Gateway’s Elkhorn Campus, 400 County Road H, Elkhorn.

This year marks the 11^th anniversary of the annual event in Kenosha which has drawn thousands over the years.

Gateway Technical College and Greening Racine have added even more creativity, art and music to their annual EcoFest Racine event through several nature and environmentally themed music acts as well as the Ecoart for Ecofest Vital Art Project.

Ecofest, a community event aimed at sharing and celebrating sustainable practices, will be held 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 17 in the Lake Building on the college’s Racine Campus, 1001 S. Main St.

Gateway Technical College will hold a horticulture and urban forestry career internship and job fair 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 15 in the Atrium of the Academic Building on the college’s Kenosha Campus, 3520-30^th Ave.

Job-seekers can meet prospective area employers at the fair who are seeking to fill internship, full-time, part-time and seasonal positions for careers in horticulture, arboriculture, urban forestry and supporting fields.

Attendees are asked to bring a résumé.

Bee activities, children’s climb added new this year to Kenosha Celebration

Gateway Technical College will once again spotlight the environment with its annual Celebrate Earth Day, featuring fun, hands-on activities for all ages to learn how to be stewards of the environment.

Gateway Technical College will offer a precursor to its Celebrate Earth Day event a couple days early by hosting the Permaculture Initiative of Kenosha event 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. April 19 at the Pike Creek Horticulture Center on the college’s Kenosha Campus, 3520-30^th Ave.

“The group is focused on promoting permaculture in the community – beginning with our own yards,” said Kate Field, Gateway Horticulture instructor and certified permaculture designer. “Our aim is also to form friendships with like-minded folks and have fun.”

Gateway Technical College is seeking vendors for its April 22 Celebrate Earth Day event to be held on its Elkhorn Campus and its Kenosha Campus.

Vendor slots are free for those who fit the criteria of the event, to be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The college strongly encourages a booth that focuses on nature, the environment or sustainability practices and offers the following:

Well-known gardening expert, author and TV/radio host Melinda Myers will keynote Gateway Technical College’s 25th Annual WinterGreen conference, an event featuring experts offering advice and insight into the trends of the horticulture industry today. 

The conference will be held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 27 in the Madrigrano Auditorium, located in the Conference Center of Gateway’s Kenosha Campus, 3520-30th Ave. Industry experts and the public are welcome to attend.

Gateway Technical College opened its bee barn at the Joseph and Kathy Madrigrano-supported Center for Sustainable Living on its Kenosha Campus, a building which will be a focal point on the college’s effort to raise awareness of the dramatic expiration of millions of bees in the last decade.

Gateway Technical College will offer the last workshop of its summer horticulture series, “Home Remedies for the Garden,” 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 9 at the college’s Pike Creek Horticulture Center on its Kenosha Campus, 3520-30^th Ave.

Well-known Gateway Horticulture program instructor Kate Jerome will lead the workshop.

Gateway Technical College will open its revamped and much larger Urban Farm and Market for the season at a kickoff party 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. May 5 in and around the grounds of the Pike Creek Horticulture Center on the college’s Kenosha Campus, 3520-30^th Ave.