Five garden designers, nine local schools, a collaboration of 32 community gardens and a range of top chefs, scientists, garden experts and sponsors are now signed-up for the new home-grown garden festival Lincoln University is presenting next year.
Grow Ō Tautahi is being held 20-22 March 2020 in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens and is more than just a “flower show”.
Lincoln University will lead discussions on science and sustainability, while ambassadors, celebrity chef Jax Hamilton, interior designer Julia Atkinson-Dunn, and award-winning garden designer Dan Rutherford, will be among those all sharing their specialist knowledge.
The festival highlights “Lincoln” areas of speciality, and as a land-based University, an easy choice to support it.
Landscape architecture, food science, sustainability, the supply chain of food from the paddock to the plate, ecology and environmental management are synonymous with Lincoln, and the opportunity to share knowledge with the many different generations which will come to the event was readily taken.
The festival also has a strong emphasis on the concept of mahika kai and sustainable food-gathering practices, another strongly supported area at Lincoln, which offers a unique mahika kai course.
Festival Director Sandi MacRae says Grow Ō Tautahi is not like anything that’s been done before.
“We’ve reached out to the community and industry to find out what they want out of a garden festival and incorporated that into the event. We’ve also looked hard at what has worked in the past and what hasn’t to make sure we deliver a local festival that makes the Garden City proud.”
Find out more at https://growotautahi.org.nz/