. Guidelines for LNT

• Prepare ahead of time; remove all excess packaging from things, bring things in large containers rather than several small ones (2 liter of coke rather than several 12-oz bottles), prepackage your food before you leave home, plan to recycle some of your trash (glass, cans) later.
• Check your camp and surrounding areas for MOOP (Matter Out of Place) very carefully before you leave.
• You are responsible for disposing of your own trash and recycling materials, not littering during the festival, and helping to keep all areas clean.
• Anything that does not occur naturally at Dragon Hills, or was not already in place when you arrived, should not be left behind. This includes cigarette butts, banana peels, paper waste, peanut shells, glitter, apple cores and a whole mess of other things.
• There will be NO trash cans at Dragon Hills, apart from ones set out by the Kitchen people (which they will be removing). You must make your own trash container, then keep and take away your own trash and recycling. Your trash should also be properly placed - if you don't want passers-by to use it, locate it more privately. Don't put your smelly trash near your neighbor's camp. And don't leave your trash to be cleaned up later by someone else, cause that's just bad juju.
• Enlightened, self-aware folks understand that their presence should be stimulating and transitory. Further, picking up after someone else just sucks.
• Bigger picture: buy in bulk. Consume less packaging.
• Do not, under any circumstances, leave your garbage along the road, or at local businesses or houses. Take it to the local dumpster during the weekend, and take it home on Monday.
• Bring drinks in crushable, aluminum cans instead of heavy/breakable glass. Or better yet, get a keg for your camp and bring one cup per person.
• Leave excess packaging at home, or at the store for that matter. Buy bulk, consolidate individually packaged items into Zip Locks or Tupperware, use reusable/collapsible water cans instead of disposable jugs.
• Bring at least two more trash bags than you will need for your camp's trash and recycling.
• If you're a smoker, bring a small container to carry with you for cigarette butts.
• Only what comes out of you naturally, plus toilet paper, should go into the outhouses and port-o-potties.
• Never let it hit the ground. Be an Earth Guardian for your camp and make sure things are kept picked up and put away to be taken away later.
• Plan to spend two hours before leaving combing through communal areas for litter & MOOP.

DRIVE SLOW!! When you come in the gate off the road, please remember to drive SLOWLY. Two reasons - this is a working horse stable, with riding lessons going on throughout the day. Cars driving too fast can spook the horses, leading to injury to both horse and rider - and these are KIDS on the horses. Also, because of the drought, the dirt roads are way dusty. The faster you drive, the more dust you stir up. This dust then settles back down on everyone's cars, tents, food, hair, and in their sinuses. Yuck. So drive slow enough so that you don't stir up a dust cloud (yeah, like 2 mph - seriously!).

No Smoking in the Dining Area: The dining area to the left of the Kitchen is a no- smoking area. You can smoke *outside* the dining area, but if those sitting at the tables can smell your smoke, you must move further away.

New Septic Tanks: The site owners have recently installed septic tanks to the left side of the Great Hall, near the tree there. It's not marked off, but it's very obviously fresh-turned dirt. Please DO NOT camp or drive there.

Rumors: Yep, more rumors. One that I've heard is that due to a party taking place Saturday night, Moondance is now an "adult" event. This is (of course) absolutely NOT TRUE. Moondance is and always will be a family-oriented event. The party Saturday night will take place at 11 pm in the Great Hall. There will be security posted at both entrances and around the Hall to make sure that no one under 18 is allowed to come in or even peep in. Special wristbands will be required for entrance; those under 21 will be specially marked. Be assured that we make every effort to keep adult activities adult-only. At any rate, I operate with full transparency; if you ever want to know what's going on with my festivals, all you have to do is check the website or ask me directly. I *always* post ANY news, updates, etc., here. If it ain't on here, or listed in the Rules or in the What to Expect, it ain't true. :)

VENDORS/ELECTRICITY: All vendors must check in with Siryn of BioBuzz (my vendor coordinator) before setting up. And if you are using electricity, you must check in with Stephen of BioBuzz before you plug in *anywhere*, including someone else's power strip. All plugs will be tagged with the vendor's name, and any untagged cords will be pulled.

No Burn Ban: This year there is no official burn ban against personal camp fires. However, you must keep your campfire contained in some manner, and use common sense with your fire (don't leave it unattended, don't make it too large, etc). If you use rocks around your fire, you *must* remove them afterwards so that the site owners can mow later. If a bushhog hits rocks, it can a) kill the tractor operator, and/or b) seriously and expensively damage the bushhog. Oh, and remember to bring your own firewood.

Schedule: Be sure to check the schedule (http://www.faeriefaith.net/MDschedule.html) so you know what all is going on. For Kokopelli's class on Shamanic Astrology, you'll need to bring your natal chart. There is a baby shower on Saturday. CST is having a meeting on Sunday. You'll need to bring bokken or shinai for Isa's classes on swordsmanship. Remember your lingerie for the Redneck Panty Party! And so forth...

Ice Cream! I bought an old-fashioned hand-crank ice cream churn off of eBay - which means... ICE CREAM! I'm bringing plenty of rock salt, and plan to make a couple of batches of vanilla. If you help churn, you get to eat ice cream! And if you'd like to make your favorite flavor, go ahead and make the recipe at home and just bring it with you. It helps if the mix is already cold when it goes in the churn. I'm pretty sure I have a 4-quart churn, if that helps with your recipe planning. I have no idea when I'll do this - could be Friday, could be Saturday. Could be both. Could be Sunday. It'll be somewhere near the Kitchen, for sure. That's about as organized as I'm getting with this.

Handfasting Annoucement: Mr Christopher Cochran and Ms. Amy Willmore would like to invite you to the top of ritual hill at sundown on Saturday afternoon during Moondance 2008 for thier Handfasting celebration! This festival will be a two year anniversary of their being together and they thought it was only appropriate that they share their ceremony with everyone in the community! Your presence will be gift enough for them, but if you feel the need to give something, they would rather you donate to the land owners to help them keep up this wonderful place we all call home for the gathering season. Hope to see you all there to witness the joining of these two hearts at a place that holds a special place in all of our hearts!

Bands Playing at Moondance:

Moonstruck (Friday & Saturday night)
Spiral Rhythms
Kokopelli

Staff Jobs

Volunteer Coordinator - Alice
Vendor Coordinator - Siryn
Security - Jay, Randy, Carol
Leave No Trace Team - Carisa & Earl

Volunteer Jobs:

1 MAIN RITUAL - Bella
2 KID'S ACTIVITIES - Aimee
2 KID'S ACTIVITIES - Erika
3 TIKI TORCHES - Richie
3 TIKI TORCHES - Geoff
4 OUTHOUSES WEEKEND - Erika
5 OUTHOUSES MONDAY - Danielle
6 PARKING TROLLS - Joy & Terry
7 STAY ON-SITE - Lee & Nion

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