Media Release

WATERWORKS HARVEST FAIR SUNDAY 29TH 2-5PM
To Celebrate Opportunities of a Simpler Life

Fresh produce and preserves, kids’ games, sustainability initiatives, sausage/ tofu sizzle, and fire engine all part of inaugural Harvest Fair

Hundreds of people are expected to attend Sunday’s Waterworks Harvest Fair to enjoy fresh locally-grown produce and preserves, sustainable community initiatives, and fun activities for kids.

Waterworks Community is building positive initiatives to help protect the environment by attempting to map out a practical living-guide to a better future. The Harvest Fair is about showing the joy of a simpler life in the local community.

Harvest Fair organizer Amanda Sully said “We wish to help ourselves and others move forward from the paralysis of fear about the future towards a vision to rebalance our lives for the better.”

“There will be over 20 stalls exhibiting or selling fresh garden produce, crafts, jumble sale, seeds, bush care, sausage/ tofu sizzle, preserves, home-made lemonade and a giant zucchini competition. Workshops will be held on solar-energy bulk-buying options, weaving, spinning, vege gardening, composting, wood splitting and bird watching. There is also a large focus on kids’ entertainment with busking, face-painting, races, guessing games and apple-bobbing.”

Ms Sully said “The Waterworks community has started on the challenging road towards becoming carbon neutral with such projects as solar hot-water bulk orders, a gardening club, community fire preparation, energy audits of houses, bush-care initiatives and a school walking-bus.”

“We hope not only to become carbon neutral but actually to become carbon positive like a similar community in Frieburg, Germany which is actually a net creator of energy.”

“We invite people from all walks of life to walk or bike ride to our lovely, fun-filled, family fair up in the Waterworks Reserve Sites this Sunday afternoon.

“Drivers are requested to park outside the reserve and either walk the rest of the way or take the courtesy bus which will be doing 15-minute circuits of nearby streets in South Hobart and Dynnyrne.

“We encourage people to host fairs in their own communities. Believe me, it is a great pleasure to have helped organize the inaugural Waterworks Harvest Fair!” concluded Ms Sully.

WHAT: Waterworks Harvest Fair (selling fresh locally-grown produce and displaying community initiatives)

WHEN: 2-5 pm, Sunday 29 March

WHERE: Sites 6,7 and 8; Waterworks Reserve, Dynnyrne

FURTHER INFO: Amanda Sully: mobile 0427 057 090