Aparima College Hall Displays and Activities both days 10am to 4pm:
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
Display with talks and info
- Apple press in action making fresh apple juice
- 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
- Vege, fruit and stalls
- Buy a tree, seeds for school
Bring along your best/most interesting/rarest fruits and veges and be in to win.
Name the category you think you should win and if the judges agree you get a prize!
e.g. the longest carrot, the heaviest cabbage, the weirdest ....
Kids Activities:
- dress up like a fruit or vegetable judged at 2pm each day
- Competition: Bring along a vegetable creature
- Family competition - build a scarecrow!
- Can you eat an Apple on String
- Throw to win fruit and veges or seeds!
- needle in a haystack
- sack races
Harvest Cafe: Heritage morning, lunch and afternoon tea available as well as organic coffee! fresh fruit and vege juices, picklets, pancakes. apple pies and more and more.
