One week until Homegrown Parkes

By MARG APPLEBEE CENTRAL WEST LACHLAN LANDCARE Homegrown Parkes is just over a week away. With each workshop registration, you can go in the running to win some wonderful prizes from our local Homegrown Parkes businesses. Of course….you need to attend the workshop on Saturday, 26 April at Cooke Park. Chef Jack Brown will be providing a workshop from 11am. Jack is an Indigenous chef trained in traditional French cuisine and he is on a mission to redefine Australian cuisine by incorporating native Indigenous ingredients into everyday cooking. Register for Jack’s workshop and go in the running to win a fabulous sculpture created by Glen Sloane from Sloaney’s Sculptures or some fabulous bush tucker plants. Make sure to reserve a seat for this free event with Jack Brown. Kath Whitchurch will be providing a workshop on Sourdough Making at 12.30pm. Through her business Sourdough by Kath, she has been making artisan sourdough, baked to order and providing sourdough workshops to share her love of sourdough with our communities. We have ten $15 gift vouchers for Sourdough by Kath goodies for registered attendees that will be drawn at the workshop. Find out the process to create delicious, crusty sourdough with Kath. make sure to register for her workshop. Our third workshop commences at 2.00pm, with Elizabeth Briton speaking about landscape design. Elizabeth is a talented landscape designer, sharing her knowledge of local plant species and design concepts. We also have four $50 gift vouchers from Dirty Gloves Nursery and a fabulous sculpture by Glenn Sloane to be drawn for attendees who register for our Landscape Design workshop. Attendees have the opportunity to hear from Elizabeth and deepen our knowledge of garden design. Register for the Landscape Design workshop. Clancy The Bee Man will provide informal workshops on the lawn in front of the Pavilion. He will bring his knowledge and enthusiasm for Bees and Creating Bee Hotels to Homegrown Parkes. Clancy has some fabulous bee posters to give away through his workshops. He will be providing two formal presentations at 10.30am and 1.00pm. Register for all workshops via StickyTickets. Please feel free to bring along your own bee hotel materials to work with Clancy, including untreated bamboo, hollow stems, kangaroo paw stems, salvia stems, PVC pipe offcuts and big tin cans. We also have a live reptile display free to the community. Andrew will have reptiles on display during the day and with two formal presentations at 11am and 1.30pm. For further information on this article, please go to www.centralwestlachlanlandcare.org, twitter, facebook or Instagram @cwllandcare or contact Marg Applebee on 0418 611 053.

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