Aparima College Hall Displays and Activities both afternoons 1- 5pm:
Each hour three 5 minute activities on stage
- Open Orchard project intro
- Heritage Seed saving intro
- Talks with competition participants about their entries
- Harvest challenges for children
- Interesting harvest stories from Southland
Also at 4.50pm, just before the festival closes for the weekend,
we have the Riverton Union Church presenting a liturgy to represent our thankfulness for this years harvest and the Festival.
So do try and be there if you can.
Display with talks and info
- Open Orchard - photos and fruit from Southland's Heritage orchards
- Seed savers
- Victory Gardens
- Keeping Bees
- Making a corn Dolly (takes 10 minutes)
- Planting by the moon
- Old garden tools
- Heritage vege varieties
- Heritage fruit varieties
- Making cider display
- Growing Hazel nuts plus nut sales
- Vege, fruit and stalls
- Buy a tree, seeds for school
Kids Activities:
- Competition: Bring along fruit or vegetable animal
- Family competition - build a scarecrow!
- Can you eat an Apple on String
- Make Pine Cones bird feeders
- Throw to win fruit and veges or seeds!
- needle in a haystack
- sack races
Harvest Cafe: Heritage afternoon tea available as well as organic coffee! fresh fruit and vege juices, picklets, pancakes and more.
