Bring a plate of food to share, your picnic blanket, hat and sunscreen. Enjoy the sun and chat to your community and local change makers about what fun we can have creating more sustainable lifestyles. Family friendly games will be played around the park throughout the day.
Best Sustainable Dish Competition
Enter the 'Best Sustainable Dish' competition - construct a gourmet centrepiece or get creative with what's at home in your garden. All in the name of fun!
First Prize* is a copy of Stephanie Alexander's 'The Cook's Companion' - an 800+ page behemouth of kitchen knowledge created specifically for Australian cooks. Second Prize* is is a copy of 'Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day' by Celine Steen and Tamasin Noyes, a very creative collection to satisfy every lunch and snack craving with vegetable-based choices. Third Prize* is a GEFU Spiral Vegetable Slicer to create carrot ribbons and zucchini noodles, making presenting and eating vegetables more fun.
Our judges are: Deb White, from Meander Valley Council Peter Brinsmead, from the Deloraine Produce Swap Catherine Smith, from Breaking the Money Monopoly
*Please note that in keeping with the sustainability theme our prizes are in good, but used condition.
Produce and Plant Swap
Every Saturday from 11am the Deloraine Produce Swap is held up the road, near the Fountain and Library. Today they have moved down to the Train Park to join in with the picnic networking fun.
Seed bank available to pick up free seeds to get your garden started. Bring your home grown produce, spare plants (we love bee attracting flowering plants too!), preserves etc. to swap within the group.
The Networking
There will be no stalls, but feel free to bring business cards/flyers about any community/sustainability initiatives you're involved with - so those you talk to can follow up by joining your facebook page and visiting your website when they get home.
The Breaking the Money Monopoly team will be at the picnic conducting vox-pop interviews about money, life and the future. Participation is voluntary.