2011 Ongoing Activities
- Tasting Tent
- Seed Swap
- Backyard Revolution
- Music
- Book Signings
- Food at the Festival
- Center for Historic Plants
- Vendor Demonstrations
These activities will be happening throughout the day on Saturday, September 17th, in the Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots Tent.
Seed Balls
Fruit & Veggie Stamping
Live Kids’ Music
Frames From Nature
Demonstration Bee Hive
The Do’s and Dont’s of Making Your Own Honey
Rain Barrels
Canning & Food Preservation
Natural Cordage & Kids’ Activities (Living Earth School)
Seed-Saving for Kids
Youth Gardening Quiz
Squirmy Wormy Composters
Seed Balls with The Greenhorns
Saturday, Ongoing, Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
Learn how to make seed balls with The Greenhorns.
Fruit & Veggie Stamping with Heather Gerry of Jade Butterfly
Saturday, Ongoing, Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
You won’t hear “Don’t play with your food” with this activity! Children create a fun craft using cut and sliced fruits & veggies as stamps.
Rhythms ‘Round Virginia with Kim & Jimbo Cary
Saturday, Ongoing, Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
Southern Mountain Music for the whole family on fiddle, banjo, guitar, and mandolin. Children and adults can play along on gourds, bones, bamboo, and seed rattles.
Frames From Nature with The Master Gardeners
Saturday, Ongoing, Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
Learn how to make frames from nature with the Central Virginia Master Gardeners.
Demonstration Bee Hive with Old Lynchburg Cemetery Beekeepers
Saturday, Ongoing, Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
See how bees live and function with the Old Lynchburg Cemetery Beekeepers.
Don’t “Bee” Like a Drunken Bear: The Do’s and Dont’s of Making Your Own Honey with Lynchburg Old City Cemetery’s Dawn Fields Wise
Saturday, Ongoing (9:00 – 10:00 a.m.), Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
Many people are interested in the various benefits beekeeping has to offer, but few know how to get started and what you should and shouldn’t do as you begin the venture into becoming a apiarist. Dawn will share the many trials and tribulations the Cemetery has gone through keeping their bees, including how not to end up like a “drunken bear!” This workshop is family friendly and for all ages.
Rain Barrels with The Master Gardeners
Saturday, Ongoing (10:15 – 11:15 a.m.), Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
The importance of rainwater catchment as a way to reduce stormwater runoff and decrease the demand on groundwater resources will be discussed, along with practical applications for the use of rainwater (including using rainwater for garden irrigation and household use).
Canning & Food Preservation with Christine Kastan
Saturday, Ongoing (11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.), Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
An introduction to simple home canning, for fruits and high-acid vegetables. Come learn how easy it is to put up your own pickles, jams, and jellies for winter.
Natural Cordage & Kids’ Activities with Living Earth School
Saturday, Ongoing (12:45-1:45 p.m.), Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
Natural Cordage (rope) Making Workshop – Come learn the art of making your own cordage from natural materials. 45 minute class for kids age 8+; Nature Connection Games for Kids ages 7+; Demo on Primitive Fire Making- Come learn the ins and outs of the
bowdrill-fire by friction method. Try your hand in the action of making your own fire from sticks alone. For ages 8+ and adults
Seed-Saving for Kids with City Schoolyard Garden at Buford
Saturday, Ongoing (2:00 – 3:00 p.m.), Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
City Schoolyard Garden at Buford shows children and families how to save seeds from their own gardens and explore creative ways to package them for storage.
Youth Gardening Quiz with Piedmont Virginia Master Gardeners
An interactive children’s activity with Piedmont Virginia Master Gardeners volunteers.
Squirmy Wormy Composters with The Master Gardeners
Saturday, Ongoing (3:15 – 4:15 p.m.), Master Gardeners’ Roots & Shoots
Learn how to make your own worm compost bin with the Central Virginia Master Gardeners. Take home a few red wigglers to make “brown gold” out of kitchen garbage.
Vendor Demonstrations
Ongoing Video Presentation with A Thyme to Plant at Lavender Fields Herb Farm
Seed starting with soil blocking at The Gardener’s Workshop
Virginia Food Heritage Project: Ongoing interaction with participants around place-based heritage food — talking about heritage food, helping folks recall and write food-related memories, identifying threatened and endangered place-based heritage foods and marking maps with heritage food sites.
Transition Charlottesville/Albemarle will be demonstrating reskilling activities throughout the day including homemade laundry soap-making and solar oven cooking.
Demonstration bee hive with Ted’s Last Stand.
Make Your Own Bird Treats with Albemarle Family Magazine – Visit the birdseed bar to make a treat for your backyard feathered friends.