Adult
Education and the Arts |
PLANT
SALE and OPEN DAY at Brixham Adult and Community Learning
Centre on Friday 17th June 11-3pm
The
ACE garden is completely accessible and has been created by
physically disabled adult students (who are members of Access
to Community Education - ACE) and supported by volunteers.
The new section has a raised bank that is being transformed
into a Devon Hedgerow plus vegetable beds which will be opened
by Cllr Martyn Hodge, Chairman of Brixham Town Council at
11am.
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ACE is
inviting the public in to buy the plants they have grown in
their polytunnel much cheaper than from shops or garden centres.
The plant sales enable members to buy more seeds and equipment
to maintain the garden. At 11.30am, tutor Katie Babbs, will
give a short talk on to grow vegetables, healing plants and
flowers. There will be tasty home made cakes and refreshments
and the chance to purchase craft pottery. |
At 2pm the
ACE music class will provide entertainment in this beautiful
setting enhanced by sculptures made from recycled materials.
The event is open to
all. Plants on sale include: fuchsias, petunias, marigolds,
busy lizzies, osteospermums, vegetable plants including tomatoes,
chillies and cucumbers, geraniums. Basket plants such
as nemesias, bacopa, helichrysum.
For more details call
01803 853302. |