Digs Fall Fun Fair and Barn Dance

DIGS will be sponsoring a traditional Fall Fair this year to celebrate the
skills of our island's gardeners, cooks, artists and wine makers.

The fair will be held on
Friday, Sept. 16 and Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Light House.
Listed below are the categories to be judged:

1. Visual Arts: - best painting/sketch - best photograph
2. Horticulture: -3 vegetables of same size and type - biggest zucchini
3 fruits - most unusual vegetable -mixed vase of garden flowers
4. Baking/Preserves: -best pie-best bread -best sweet loaf-
best pickles-best jam/jelly/chutney
5. Wines: -best homemade white wine -best homemade red wine
6. Junior Category: -best scarecrow
7. Giant Onions: - single heaviest onion

You may enter as many categories as you wish.
Entries will be accompanied by an entry form (available in August at the pub, community garden and island bulletin boards or online at here at the digs blog.)
A $1.00 fee will be charged per entry, and must be presented at the Lighthouse Friday night (Sept. 16) or Saturday (Sept. 17) before 10 am. Judging will take place Saturday morning between 10 am and noon by a panel of highly qualified local judges and ribbons awarded in all categories.

The exhibit will remain open Saturday afternoon for viewing by the public. Other activities will take place outside. Info to follow.

As a finale there will be a Barn Dance on Saturday evening starting at 8 pm. Admission is a plate of appetizers. Dress is somewhat farmer-like.
Now is the time to start planning your entry so that you can join in the fun. Good Luck! Margaret Harris

littler community gardeners ..

it's so delightful to watch the children at the garden .. they get in to lots of different activities .. some made for them .. others of their own making .. as i was puttering around in the garden, this past saturday, i witnessed this impromptu display of community gardening ..(before i go on, i apologize for any misspelled names) ..

 it all began with nicola .. she was helping glen at their plot ..

before i knew it, fay happened by to see what was going on ..

so .. nicola showed fay what she'd been up to ..

pretty soon, along came immogen .. with her shovel .. ready to join in ..

by this time, having got the project scoop from nicola, fay took the initiative to dig ..

next time i looked, lola had brought her shovel, too, and just dug right in ..

 a little later, i passed by ocea, kazaya and lenni, who were hard at it .. it looks like they're taking their cue from immogen ..

 

there was quite the little convergence of small gardeners .. and parents ..

everyone having fun gardening together ..

then .. it was time to clean up ..

'timing is everything' .. it would seem my timing was pretty spot on .. how wonderful to be witness to this burst of spontaneous creation in the garden .. glen and jess and nicola's bed benefitted from some extra kid energy .. and, i trust lynn is pleased with the progress in her bed .. "many hands make light work" ..

so, i invite you to come down some saturday, and suggest that you, too, will witness delightful moments unfolding before your very eyes ..

even little ruxton was eager to help .. in his fashion ..

Plant Swap & Sale will be May 15th

PLANT SWAP AND SALE The DIGS annual plant swap and sale is scheduled to take place on Sunday, May 15 at the community garden. As you prepare your garden for spring please think about potting up extra plants to swap at this event. More details to follow. Marg