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The following was submitted by Prassede Calabi on behalf of the Fast Forest committee.
Calling board game wizards and curious first-timers of all ages to a gaming adventure for the WIN Fast Forest!
Come join a family-friendly extravaganza of board games and laughter on Saturday, Feb. 3 and every “First Saturday” through October, from 12-3 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 478 Main St., Winchester.
Imagine a world where your love of board games helps “make’ habitat” - like caterpillars, to feed baby birds (a baby black-capped chickadee eats about 1000 caterpillars growing up).
Entry is just $15 at the door. Each ticket plants a sapling in the WIN Fast Forest
Games include Catan, OuiSi, Sequence, UNO, Codenames, Monopoly and any you want to bring!
Want a forever-Valentine?
Sponsor native plant(s) in the WIN Fast Forest. While flowers are gone in a few days, the forest will last hundreds of years.
Your Valentine’s name(s) will be added as you specify - onto the Donor list.
And you will be sent a pretty card with mailing-envelope, one per donation you designate.
a. Click here https://givebutter.com/winfastforest
b. Choose an amount.
c. In the “note or comment’ section, please say how many cards, the Valentine’s
name(s), and your snail-mail address.
d. Valentine name(s) go onto a permanent list on the Fast Forest website, and your cards will be mailed to share with your Valentine!
Amounts are: $25 for one plant, 5 for $100, 30 for $500.
Donations to the Fast Forest are tax deductible.
The WIN Fast Forest
Wanna help pollinators and lots of native critters for hundreds of years? Help plant a bit of mature native forest.
Why forest? Cuz plants are the base of the food pyramid. Trees are big and sturdy; they feed and shelter a lot of critters; they last a long time.
WIN Fast Forest is planting 39 plant species, 16 of them trees, in a small plot. at Wright Locke Conservancy. Why so many? Because most insects are specialized to eat just one or a few plants. And because so very many critters eat insects. Lots of insects. One clutch of black-capped chickadees needs some 7,000 caterpillars to fledge; a hummingbird needs up to 2,000 insects per day for her young.
Please pitch in. Watch your donation grow – and know it will keep growing for a few hundred years.
