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Get ready to ride, Columbus! In partnership with the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, residents 18 and older can receive a FREE CoGo Annual Membership! Membership includes unlimited 45-minute classic bike rides for one year and big ebike discounts! 🚲🎉 DM @simplyliving614 with your email for your code & redemption instructions!

Simply Living wants your input on the courses we offer! EcoChallenge discussion courses give you a framework to talk about your relationship with the planet and fellow humans 🌎👥 They are designed to help break big issues into bite-sized pieces, plus they help create a personal network of shared stories and support that makes it easy to take action! 💪 Join us online Tuesday, May 24, at 7 p.m. to learn about the variety of courses available through EcoChallenge (formerly Northwest Earth Institute) and let us know which ones you are most interested in! Find out more about the courses at ecochallenge.org/discussion-courses/ Register to join us: bit.ly/3Nd9VOG

🎉 YAY! It's finally safe to get some plants in the ground here in central Ohio! 🎉 Remember: plants grown for fruits & roots (🍉🍆🍅🥒🌶🥕🧅 ) need full sun to produce consistently, while plants grown for sprouts, stems & leaves (🥦🥬🥗) are much happier in partial shade or dappled sunlight! Happy gardening!

👋 Join us TONIGHT at 7pm via Zoom as we answer the questions: What's a local food system? How can it benefit me and my community? 👉 A local food system is a collaborative network that combines sustainable food production, processing, distribution, consumption, + waste management with the aim to improve the environmental, economic, & social health of a particular area. Simply Living is excited to host Mike Hogan TONIGHT to learn more about urban farming and the developing food systems in central Ohio! Mike contributes to Edible Columbus and the Columbus Dispatch. He is an educator with the Ohio State University Extension in Franklin County and shares his knowledge of food and agriculture throughout Ohio. Join us TONIGHT, May 10th from 7-8:30PM via Zoom. Register Here: bit.ly/UrbanFarmOH

Don't miss a free movie night + Q&A with the Director at the @drexeltheatre this Wednesday at 7pm! "Hometown Habitat" follows Catherine Zimmerman, an award-winning director, and her film team as they travel across the country to meet Hometown Habitat heroes who are working to reverse negative impacts on the land and in the water of key U.S. watersheds, one garden at a time! 🌱 They traveled through Florida's watersheds, the Mississippi River Basin's prairies, the Rocky Mountain streams and rivers, the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Columbia River to share success stories and ongoing projects that celebrate conservation landscaping that redefines our relationship with nature. Catherine Zimmerman is an award-winning director of photography who is celebrating her 43rd year as a documentary filmmaker, focusing on education and environmental issues. You must register through Bexley Rec: bit.ly/394UgC9 This program is in partnership with @greenbexley's @loveyouralley_bexley program and generously funded by the Bexley Community Foundation.

Simply Living is teaming up with @gatewayfilmcenter to present "Future Weather" + a Q&A with the filmmaker next Saturday, May 14th from 2-4pm! 🎟 Ticket proceeds benefit Simply Living and Columbus School for Girls’ Sustainability Club 🌱 "Future Weather" was an Official Selection of Tribeca Film Festival 2012. The story follows a teenage loner who becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother to rethink their futures. Climate science becomes the backdrop as we examine the intertwining lives of three generations of women. Stay after the screening for a discussion with the film’s writer, director and producer, Jenny Deller, and additional panelists on climate change, youth activism and how environmental justice has evolved over the past decade. Deller will give a brief preview her new project, The Imposter, set to film in Columbus next year. For more info, visit: www.facebook.com/events/384282330239604 To purchase tickets: gatewayfilmcenter.org/movies/future-weather-2012

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Let’s ride! May is National #BikeMonth 🙌 We partnered with @colsrecparks to give residents 18 + up a FREE CoGo Annual Membership! Membership includes unlimited 45-minute classic bike rides + ebike discounts 🚲🎉 DM us with your email for your code & redemption instructions.

🧐What's a local food system? How can it benefit me and my community? 👉 A local food system is a collaborative network that combines sustainable food production, processing, distribution, consumption, + waste management with the aim to improve the environmental, economic, & social health of a particular area. Simply Living is excited to host Mike Hogan to learn more about urban farming and the developing food systems in central Ohio! Mike contributes to Edible Columbus and the Columbus Dispatch. He is an educator with the Ohio State University Extension in Franklin County and shares his knowledge of food and agriculture throughout Ohio. Join us next Tuesday, May 10th from 7-8:30PM via Zoom. Register Here: bit.ly/UrbanFarmOH