After weeks of planning, scheming, emailing, designing posters, video meetings with our partner organisations, our team was ready for the picnic. This was the first Friends of Mayow Park (FOMP) picnic and we chose to locate in the orchard we planted in 2012. We wanted other park users to get to know this special place.
With
fingers crossed that the weather would be warm and dry Yogi, Mike and Alona
(not Viv as she was away on holiday) met
Rebel Kitchen (RK) and The Orchard Project (TOP) staff and volunteers to set up
our stalls.
Yes!
The weather turned out to be perfect for us.
RK
brought their own gazebo and plenty of freebies to give away including their
branded raw juices. With the picnic in mind they also brought plenty of picnic
mats for our anticipated guests. The mats were a hit with our visitors.
TOP
brought two apple peeling machines for the longest peel activity. They also
brought two amazing face-painting and body painting artists.
FOMP’s
orchard activities included Yogi’s
wonderful colours of nature art and a fruit tree hunt.
The
Mayow Park croquet club joined us and offered an opportunity to have a go at
croquet.
We
wanted to give people a chance to spend time in our orchard and discover the
diversity of our fruit trees while also having fun with RK’s Spin to Win game,
face painting and nature art.
During the course of the afternoon more than 80 people joined us, some staying and some drifting through, as well as quite a few children and some with dogs.
Thanks
also go to our loyal volunteers who came to help – Pippa posted photos on
social media, Robert brought his family and Freda came with her dog Freddy.
The photos below with thanks to Kath from The Orchard Project
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| exploring the orchard |
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| Team Orchard Project |
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| Spin to win |
