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Ashburton Aloe Festival
27th June 2015 - 28th June 2015
This year we look forward to celebrating a fantastic Aloe Festival for the Lower Mpushini Valley Conservancy on Saturday and Sunday the 27th and 28th of June. The festival will be held over 5 venues and cost of entry will be R30 for entry into all venues, lectures, walks, talks and access to all craft markets (children under 12 free)
Our Aloes are all turning bright orange and tis the season for us to bloom. We have a lot going on for 2015, with all walks, talks, food, music, crafts, art displays, Aloe sales and lots more. We will also be expecting a bumper turnout of both vendors selling all sorts of interesting and nature related crafts and arts and also a lot more visitors to the Festival. We have bumped up the advertising and exposure for The Aloe Festival and have a lot more going on this year, so this should pan out to be a fun filled weekend for everybody.
Venue 1 (GALAGO FARM)
Tea Garden
Succulent Sales
Self-guided trails
Mpushini Rehabilitation Project (Alien Weed Eradication)
Campfire from 4pm
Art Under the Trees
Venue 2 (TOPROCK)
Craft Market
Mineral, Crystal & Gemstone Shop
Lunches
Live Music
Venue 3 (IMPALA BEND)
Lunches
Craft Market
Snake Display (Sunday)
Live Popular music 11 to 5
Self guided trail
Venue 4 ( ROCKY WONDER ALOE NURSERY)
Aloe & Succulent sales, 200 species
Self-Guided Bird Trails
Refreshments
Accommodation & Camping available
Venue 5 (SPENCER’S PLACE)
Pony rides
Self Guided Trail for Bird Watchers opens 6am
SPEAKERS
Sat 27th, 10.00, BOTSOC Gardening & Children Galago
Sat 27th, 11.30, Garth Carpenter Wildlife Poaching Impala Bend
Sat 27th, 2.00, Nick May Crystal Species Toprock
Sat 27th, 4.00, Howard Bradshaw Last Outpost-Readings Galago
Sun 28th, 10.00, Edith Elliot Hazards of Cleaning Products/alternatives Toprock
Sun 28th, 11.30, Garth Carpenter Snakes Alive Impala Bend
Sun 28th, 2.00, Barrie Lewis Gardening for Bees Impala Bend
Sat and Sun Pandora Long Eco-Centre Public participation Galago
For more information please call Darlene Bond 082 933 5036
