{"id":134575,"date":"2026-03-10T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134575\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:14:08","slug":"berks-county-conservation-to-host-free-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134575\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County Conservation To Host Free Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphianewsroom.com\/tag\/berks-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Berks County<\/a> Conservation District will host its fifth annual Conservation Celebration event on Saturday, May 9, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Berks County 4-H Grounds at 1238 County Welfare Road in Leesport. The free family event, promoting conservation, gardening, and environmental stewardship, will be held rain or shine.<\/p>\n<p>Local Story: ArtPhilly Announces Citywide Art Festival in May<\/p>\n<p>Event organizers noted that the festival lineup will feature live music by Golden Twine, line dancing with Boot Scootin Becky, a rain barrel auction, a Smokey Bear visit, educational displays from the Berks and Schuylkill County Beekeeper Association, a Touch-a-Truck experience, and a Kids&#8217; Corner with children&#8217;s activities. Mini workshops will cover topics such as worm composting and container gardening.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, contact Jennifer Brooks at 610-372-4657, ext. 212, or <a href=\"https:\/\/957benfm.com\/2026\/03\/10\/berks-county-conservation-to-host-free-event\/mailto:jennifer.brooks@berkscd.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by email<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berks County Conservation District will host its fifth annual Conservation Celebration event on Saturday, May 9, from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-134575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}