





Hello Earthship Enthusiasts! We have been making great progress on our house, but Covid has made event planning tricky. This group is so important to us because we got our first experience pounding tires here, and we got to connect with many like minded individuals who all had ideas about how to make these houses better, and build them properly for the Canadian climate. Let's keep that conversation going, let's keep sharing ideas. The Martin Tirehouse would like to host a Halloween fundraiser to help pay the Meetup fees for this group. DO YOU LOVE ALL THINGS SPOOKY? Have you started to think about how your family will be doing Halloween this year? With Covid impacting everything we can assume that nothing will be "normal" and cities probably won't be doing much door to door treats with strangers. I have the solution for you! Start thinking about FRIGHT FARM 2020!!!! Halloween is on a Saturday this year so consider....instead of decorating your house, make a HALLOWEEN DISPLAY and set it up in our 16 acres of field at our Earthship. Each household will be allowed one display, and will be encouraged to pick a theme, a scary movie, or just a Halloween spectacular. (Think...bloodsoaked campsite, or... Walking Dead, or Pirates of the Caribbean, if you have a business or idea you want to promote that can be your theme....like a permaculture display could have a scary veggie section and give away cherry tomatoes) You can have your costumes incorporate the theme of your display, or you can just wear a covid mask, but the more creative the better. We intend to go "all out" and expect you to as well. Take time to plan out your display with your family and try to use as many recycled materials as possible. I'm not saying you need to dig up great grandpa and reuse his coffin, but I am saying you could easily make a coffin out of the random cut offs of wood I have lying in piles around our house. Instead of giving out candy at your station, consider a sanitized, recycled item. Think...all those Shopkins you don't want anymore, Lego people, Halloween themed pencils, Erasers, candy apples, cotton candy, caramel popcorn...the sky is the limit. We are taking COVID precautions. This is an outdoor event. Each household will be required to register so we know what size of display you intend to do, whether you need a table, chairs or tent (carport) and we will have contact information for everyone who participates in case we need to do contact tracing. The event will be outdoors, but we will have indoor facilities which will have a limit of people allowed inside at a time. Each household will be encouraged to bring their own food, drink, cups, plates and utensils. If your food is for sharing, consider having portions available that can be served without contact. A pumpkin pie can still be covid and planet friendly if you divide it into pieces before coming and put slices into clean sour cream and yoghurt containers for example. There will be a minimum 5 dollar donation per household, which will cover the cost of a locally grown pumpkin for the pumpkin carving contest. There will be a costume contest, a haunted hayride and at dusk there will be a haunted walk that will make you shake in your boots. If you don't want to do a display, you are still welcome to come to visit our Tirehouse with a roof on it, or Trick or Treat, but you will be required to make a minimum 5 dollar donation and register all the same. If you have extra room in your vehicle (because driving here from Ottawa takes about an hour) let me know when you register as there are people who do not have vehicles who would like to come, and they can cover your household donation. Let's talk about alternative building methods! Invite your friends who are interested in green building or in Trick or Treating! Encourage the people you normally go out with to do their own display so you can still go together in a covid friendly kind of way! Please email: [masked]