Saturday, Aug. 29 marks the inaugural Harvest Festival at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden at 5941 Mason Road in Sechelt. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. the family fun includes live music, food, children's activities, sales of plants, baked goods and other garden-related items, and a celebration of the first year's bounty from the vegetable garden. This is an opportunity to purchase some of the high-quality organic vegetables grown on the site. There will be vegetable garden tours and demonstrations, salsa tasting, and a chance to dream about what you might grow next year.
Local talent to be showcased includes Katie & the Cornpones, the Coast String Fiddlers, and the Arbutus Sounds Chorus. Get your ears ready for fun and your toes ready for tapping! Refreshments will be provided by Sechelt Rotary Club. Children will have a chance to help build a family of scarecrows for the garden. Families who took part in the preschool Gardineers program will be able to check on the radishes, beans and sunflowers the youngsters planted in July. There will also be tours of the newly-purchased 16-hectare site, a display of the past, present and future of the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society, and information about membership and upcoming events for the autumn.
Admission is by donation. Pay what you can to support the Grow the Garden campaign of the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden.
For more information, visit www.coastbotanicalgarden.org.
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