Spring Into Gardening 2016 - FREE Family Event

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Sun 09 Oct 2016

The City of Stonnington's award-winning sustainability and gardening festival, Spring into Gardening, returns to Prahran's Victoria Gardens with an exciting program featuring FREE expert talks, practical demonstrations, interactive workshops, over 30 market stalls and fun kid's activities.This FREE family-friendly event celebrates all things Spring and will be held on Sunday 9 October, 11am - 3pm.This year's event will be hosted by popular TV personality Costa Georgiadis from ABC's Gardening Australia. Throughout the day event-goers can enjoy a fantastic range of informative and entertaining events - some of the highlights include:Gardeners at all levels can get back to basics at 'Composting with Costa' and bring questions for his interactive Q&A session.Learn how to keep backyard bees with Backyard Honey and enjoy a preserves workshop with My Green Garden. Small Spaces Garden Design will teach you everything you need to know about gardening in small spaces, while Fytogreen will run demonstrations on planting ecologically sustainable green walls and roof gardens. The Sage Garden will be running a special gardening workshop just for kids and absolute beginners, where the little green thumbs can take away their own planted seed and instructions to help children and families grow their own food. Grab the kids and join Natasha Grogan of The Sage Garden who will show you how to set up a worm farm with one lucky family taking home a prize! Plus FREE hands-on activities will keep your kids happy and entertained throughout the day, including terrarium workshops by Candy Sparkles See Make Play, and sustainable craft with Trash Puppets and Emma Grace. There are even workshops for the adults where you can create your own artful and colourful Macramé plant hanger! Over 30 market stalls to peruse, offering a diverse range of specialist products, including Cool Cactus, Town & Country Gardens and Worm Lovers, as well as local community gardens, clubs and services.And don't miss the roving Snuff Puppet Performance, Mirabelle the snail - she may be slow and quiet, but she's hungry! This is a great opportunity to enjoy the many delights of Spring! Last year's event attracted 5,000 gardening enthusiasts of all ages!
Come along with your friends and family and Spring into Gardening.For more information on this event, please visit the City of Stonnington website .NOTE: Please bring along your re-useable bags; this is a plastic-free event.

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