Green Earth, Inc

06/04/2026

Happy PRIDE Month Carbondale!
Let's celebrate the diversity in people and the biodiversity of our nature preserves 🌈🎋

The Rainbow Cafe LGBTQ Center of Carbondale is sponsoring our StoryWalk Trail for June! Hike with your family to read the children's picture book T'was the night before PRIDE by Joanna McClintick. Visitors can also play a Nature's Rainbow Scavenger Hunt while out on the trail.
The StoryWalk Trail is located at the Oakland Nature Preserve (1201 N Oakland, Carbondale). The children's book and scavenger hunt prizes are provided by The Carbondale Public Library.

06/02/2026

Huge THANK YOU to SIU Center for English as a Second Language (CESL) instructor Geoff Young and 18 students from15 countries across the world for their help in adding additional parking to our overflow lot at Chautaqua Bottoms earlier this week. We work with CESL regularly and so appreciate the program for bringing these amazing students (mostly Fulbright Scholar) into the community to work with nonprofits where they learn what community means here locally. CESL students are consistently a hard-working bunch and so fun to get to know.
Another BIG Thank You to Joe Lenzini for figuring this all out, from compiling our materials list to prepping the site for the workday. And our course, THANKS our own Ken Mayberry for prepping and working with the crew.
For those of you happy to hear about more parking, the lot can currently be used but will continue to improve as we add a top layer of gravel, finish a connecter trail, and add signs over the next month or two.

05/14/2026

Green Earth monthly workday - this Saturday! -

05/14/2026

Quick reminder of our regular volunteer workday held the third Saturday of each month.

For May:
When: Saturday 5/16, 9am to noon
Where: Chautuaqua Bottoms, Freeman Street Entrance
2008 W Freeman St, Carbondale
Project: trail upgrades

Thanks for being what make Carbondale great!
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05/03/2026

Nature on Tap might have started out a bit damp and chilly, but the sun came out ☀️ and a great time was had!
We'd like to send out a big Thank You to Scratch Brewing Company, Carbondeli's, and all our fantastic volunteers for helping us host this great event!

05/02/2026

It has turned out the be an amazing afternoon!

05/01/2026

It's down-to-the-wire-time for buying tickets to Nature On Tap (May 02, 2-6pm). There are only handful left for the Hike-With-A-Flight tasting trail, but we still have plenty of tickets for entry to the Pop-Up Pub.
Come enjoy outdoor time with friends, live music by Carr and Tejada, concessions by Carbondeli's and some absolutely EXCELLENT beer from Scratch Brewing Company.

Pop-Up Pub and the Hike with a Flight beer tasting trail featuring Artisan Beers from Scratch Brewery

04/26/2026

Nature on Tap is just one week away! -

04/25/2026

This Morning Only!

We hope to see you at the Farmers Market at Murdale!

04/25/2026

Nature on Tap is in 1 Week!

Tickets on sale now! Join us Saturday, May 2nd for one of the most unique opportunities to try at least 8 beers from Scratch Brewery without leaving Carbondale at the Oakland Nature Preserve (1201 Oakland Avenue).

Tickets for the Hike with a Flight Trail are just $45 each and include a commemorative glass, eight 4oz samples of Scratch beer, and access to the Pop-up Pub. Click on the link below to purchase advance tickets for slots between 2:30 and 4:30pm for a casual stroll through the woods.

Don’t have time for a hike? Tickets for just the Pop-up Pub to purchase a selection of Scratch beers and concessions will be available at the event for $10.

Live music starts at 3pm.

Thank you in advance for supporting this unique fundraiser for Green Earth. Cheers!

Ticket are on sale now -
https://givebutter.com/nature-on-tap-2026

Carbondale IL Tourism City of Carbondale Government Carbondale Tourism Church of Beerology & Spirits Scratch Brewing Company