The 2011 Harvest Festival

Wow, what a day! Blue skies and sunshine – after days of drizzle, crowds of interested visitors and a huge effort from the garden and wider community all added up to a very successful festival and fun for all.

A happy face says what all felt

We had (in no particular order) stalls for

  • Entertainment – music by various groups
  • Flowers
  • Guess the number of seeds in a jar competition (Little Bendigo Primary School)
  • Face Painting
  • Lucky Dip
  • Produce
  • Plants
  • Second hand books
  • Trash and treasure
  • Tea, coffee and cake
  • Sausage sizzle
  • Lemonade
  • Fruit salad
  • Wood fired pizzas
  • Storytelling
  • Ballarat Permaculture Guild
  • BREAZE Sustainability Centre
  • BCG information including displays from the Sails and  St. Alipius garden groups

and of course

the star of the show – the  garden itself looking thriving and luscious

(Please forgive if I have inadvertently left anyone out – please use our contact form or ring a committee member to get the list amended).

But for now, WELL DONE EVERYONE!

You can see some photos from the event at

http://ballaratcommunitygarden.org.au/photos/Harvest-Festival-2011/

The hamper raffle was won by Vanessa, one of the musos who so kindly donated their time.

Overall, we raised in the vicinity of $4,000 towards our club room project.

 

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