We can probably all agree that starting our weekends with the early morning bustle of the Saturday Farmers Market is a staple of Revelstoke living. Community time at its best. It’s always such a great way to ring in the weekend. After the distance of the last 2 years it’s a deep and refreshing return to public gatherings and a welcome opportunity to bump into people we haven’t in awhile.
This season the LFI is hosting a booth right on the corner of Mackenzie and First, in order to give community members a chance to see us face to face and connect. Every weekend our booth provides fun up to date programming information for local events that we have coming up.
Different programming contractors take on different weekends to mix up the booth content. Our Garden Guru offered a vermicomposting educational display. It showcased easy ways for adults to make their own free fertilizer with some worms and composting scraps from the kitchen.
Knowing the market and the abundance of young families with children, we usually have some activities set out so kids can get their creative juices flowing and exercise a bit of freedom. Sidewalk chalk and some dew worms and sand was the choice during the vermicomposting display.
The kids went crazy for the dew worms! Brave little hands digging in without hesitation, which afforded an excellent learning opportunity to showcase the difference between a dew worm (big fat fishing worms) and a red wriggler (little red super composting worms ).
There were only a couple of worm escapes, with one kind woman returning a worm that had made it up onto the sidewalk…..Maybe it was headed down the road to Terra Firma to hitch ride …..
We hope that you join us Saturdays from 8AM-1PM for some local fun and flavour!
