Harvest Festival: Saturday 11 September, midday – 4pm
August 27th, 2010
A free event celebrating the second season of What Will The Harvest Be? at Abbey Gardens.
Anyone is welcome to come along and enjoy the garden, delicious food made with produce grown by our gardening club, and lots of tea and cake. Activities for grown-ups and children include garden-inspired competitions, garden tours and craft making. Vegetables, plants and flowers to take home are available for donations from our Honesty Stall.
11am: Bring your competition entries:
Bake a garden-themed cake or traybake (to be served at 3pm, after judging)
Please mark your container with your name, name of cake and ingredients
Build a plant portrait: a head or face made from fruit and vegetables
Label your plant portrait with your name and age
Make a flower arrangement on the theme of ‘What will the harvest be?’
in own container (not exceeding 75cm h x 50cm w x 50cm d)
12 noon: Harvest Festival opens
Garden tours, tea and cake throughout the afternoon
12-3pm: Activities
Build a head or face from vegetables to enter into our plant portrait competition
Print a patchwork of patterns with potatoes and natural plant dyes and juices
Make a miniature bouquet of paper collage flowers
Sew some bunting or take away a piece to sew at home
1.30pm: Cookery and tastings
2pm: Live flower arranging (entries can be submitted to the competition)
3pm: Competition judging
4pm: Harvest Festival closes






