{"id":557,"date":"2019-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/uncategorized\/free-gardening-workshops-giveaways-and-more-patch-returns-erina-fair-month\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:00:00","slug":"free-gardening-workshops-giveaways-and-more-patch-returns-erina-fair-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/lifestyle\/free-gardening-workshops-giveaways-and-more-patch-returns-erina-fair-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Free gardening workshops, giveaways and more: The Patch returns to Erina Fair this month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the_patch_article_image_1_0.jpg\" width=\"751\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is so cool we almost wet our plants! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grab some gloves, a spade, and get ready to get your garden on, because a community gardening pop-up is returning to Erina Fair this August!<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating all things environmentally friendly and sustainable, The Patch is a community garden pop-up will see a green oasis filled with native plants appear in the Centre Court for two unbe-leaf-ible weeks!<\/p>\n<p>Created as a partnership between Sustainable Education, Star104.5, Mitre 10 and Erina Fair, the pop-up will be home to 24 tree-rific free workshops as well as free gardening advice and live shows from much-loved kids gardening character dirtgirl!<\/p>\n<p>Get down and dirty with free workshops on organic gardening, chemical free living, seed saving, keeping backyard chickens, composting, bee keeping and so much more!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the_patch_article_image_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While you\u2019re all gloved up from the workshops, pop in for a chat with the gardening experts from Kincumber Mitre 10 who will be on site every day for free gardening advice!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the_patch_article_image_3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It all kicks off on Saturday 24th August with a performance by kids entertainers dirtgirl and scrapboy from the ABC Kids television show Get Grubby TV, along with a meet and greet for some very special boys and girls!<\/p>\n<p>Now, if this wasn\u2019t already a great way to spend your thyme, you can win some awesome prizes just by coming along! 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