RHS Garden Rosemoor in Torrington is holding its second Eco Fair designed to help north Devon residents who want to adopt a greener lifestyle. Diana Gilding, Events Manager at Rosemoor says “We are really excited about our upcoming ECO Fair here at RHS Garden Rosemoor, especially as it is the first event this year which forms part of B10, the North Devon Biosphere’s 10 year anniversary celebrations. Their inflatable classroom the Bio-Dome will be on site to engage our visitors with what the Biosphere is all about and we feel that strengthening the connections between the public and their natural surroundings is such an important factor, especially when you apply that to ecological gardening.” Rosemoor’s Eco Fair is a fun and informative event with lots of hands-on activities for both adults and children to enjoy including basket weaving, cob plastering a pig, thatching a roof, making willow fairy wands and there will even be a solar-powered Nellie the elephant to ride. To help you make your house and garden as ECO friendly as possible there will be local providers and installers of solar panels, wind turbines, natural insulation, rainwater harvesters and examples of electric bikes, vehicles and car ports, there will even be eco friendly paper made out of pony poo! Rosemoor has amazing green credentials too. As much of its waste as possible is recycled: cardboard and plastics are compacted and sold to fund other initiatives; all the food waste from the kitchens are placed in their Rocket Composter and the Peter Buckley Learning Centre (PBLC) was designed and built to be as environmentally friendly as possible. There will be talks, demonstrations and displays and visitors will be introduced the Rocket Composter and shown round the PBLC. Normal garden admission applies but for the green traveller there will be a special £2 discount on the entry fee if you travel to the Eco Fair by Stagecoach Bus number 315 which runs between Barnstaple - Bideford - Crediton - Exeter and stops right outside Rosemoor.
RHS ROSEMOOR, TORRINGTON ECO FAIR 2013 SATURDAY 6 APRIL 2013 10am to 4pm
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