Farm My School Birthday
Farm My School (FMS) is throwing open the farm gates for a community party to celebrate its second birthday.
The festive, family-friendly celebration will feature music performances from Bellarine Secondary College (BSC) students, a student photographic display, tree planting in the FMS orchard, food vans and other fun activities.
“We’re excited to invite the community back to the farm to join us in celebrating our second birthday,” said FMS Co-founder James McLennan. “It’s really remarkable seeing the transformation of a disused soccer pitch, full of weeds and rabbit warrens into an abundant market garden, that now supports a range of programs and initiatives – and in only two years.”
As part of the birthday celebrations, BSC students are being encouraged to participate in competitions that focus on celebrating the farm. There’s a songwriting competition for songs related to the farm with budding songwriters performing their creations at the party, a photographic competition and display of photos of the farm, and even a scarecrow competition and display.
BSC Principal Wayne Johannesen said the community event is a great opportunity to celebrate our partnership with Farm My School and Bellarine Community Health (BCH).
“Together we’ve achieved a lot in two years and I’m really looking forward to seeing what the students create as part of the celebrations,” he said. “I’ve even donated one of my old suits for the scarecrow making competition.”
The Farm My School pilot program continues to expand and now includes an education program which is open to other local schools to help young people learn about regenerative farming and connect with the land and how food is grown.
BCH Healthy Communities Planner Pen Lynch said throwing open the gates of the farm to the community to celebrate the second anniversary is recognition of how much the community has contributed to the project.
“It’s hard to believe it’s been two years since the big ‘build a farm in a day’ event when construction of the farm began. It’s grown so much since then and the birthday party is a wonderful celebration of everyone who has contributed to the farm, big or small, since that day.”
The event is being held at the farm on the grounds of Bellarine Secondary College on Thursday 31st October from 3:30pm to 8:30pm.
Tickets to the Farm My School second birthday party are available through humanitix
https://events.humanitix.com/farm-my-school-2nd-birthday-party-97pue4q4
The event is free for Bellarine Secondary College students, their families, and staff. There is a small admission cost for general community members.
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