FEATURE ELEMENTS AND AREAS
Ask it Solve It Stage brought to you by Your Home & Garden magazine
An informal, intimate Q&A panel format featuring New Zealand's Your Home & Garden magazine personalities as well as other industry experts talking on specific plant care and answering gardening questions.
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Cooking Stage brought to you by Taste magazine
Taste's Chefs, cooking experts, personalities and exhibitors will show easy, hands-on cooking techniques to take the fruits of their garden labours to the table.
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Little Treasures Kids Activity Area
This area ensures the Expo is fun for the whole family. Children will be kept happy with craft, colouring and games. Brought to you be Little Treasures magazine.
Weekend Gardener Potting Shed
An interactive display , led by an expert personality, will feature hands-on involvement from audience members. Visitors will learn the fundamentals of key gardening skills such as: propagation from seed, roots or cuttings, grafting, re-potting, tool maintenance and selection, pruning and transplanting.
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Backyard Creatures
Stage presentations will educate visitors on numerous issues about the variety of creatures coexisting in a thriving and dynamic garden ecosystem. This could include:
- Productive Animals: bees and chickens provide wonderful home produce as well as essential pollination and manure to fertilise
- Attracting Native Birds: what to plant for and feed native birds
- Creepy Crawly Bugs & Spiders: how to identify, friend or foe
- Lizards and Frogs: encourage some , discourage others
- Responsible Pet Keeping: how to keep backyard pets from upsetting nature's balance
