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The Planting Festival – Through the Eyes of a Child

09/05/201609/07/2016

Recently I went to Woodford again to join in with The Planting.

I didn’t really know what to expect but if  was along the same vein as The Woodford Folk Festival, I knew I would would love it…. and so would the kids.

Determined to let my  inner child dominate I set few rules for the weekend (just the usual safety ones for the kids) .

We all seem to sigh a breath of relief when I declare these weekends. We all get to honour fun and play in nature.

With that in mind, this is my ” inner child’s” take on The Planting Festival,  held the first long weekend in May each year.

The Planting 2016

We arrive late on Friday  afternoon... too late in the afternoon.

I forgot that the sun goes to bed really early now, and that there would be loads of traffic leaving Brisbane, heading north for the weekend.

It was a long car drive. It rained.

The traffic stopped. Then it started. only to Stop again.

It was actually loads of fun, until we got there a little too late…. It was nearly dark, and raining consistently.

The kids were really good about it though and the volunteers are all friendly and make it a really easy process.

The Planting Festival
Getting our hippy grove on

After showing ID at the registration tent it was an armband on, then directions to the camp site.

The kids were buzzing with excitement as was I.

The excitment momentarily died as we put the tents up in the rain..

Time to explore.

Inside the festival was awesome.

We headed straight for the Tree House.

It had been built over 2 weeks by about 14 people including these amazing people:

Arief Rabik
Arief Rabik

Arief from Indonesia who has a passion and business in the bamboo industry.

There was something very wholesome about him and his nature that left you smiling inside to out.

 

 

The Planting
Jed

And Jed – another cool person who has been involved with Woodfordia and the art side for many years. He also had that incredible luminsing energy that left you feeling happy.

The Tree House is a magnificent structure that is best described as living art and an absolute trip wire for one’s imagination.

Tree house woodfordia
From the tree house looking out

It’s window off the lounge room offers a placid and surreal scene.

With a foggy haze and fresh smell of rain in the air, it is everything fantasy and make believe could ever hope to achieve.

We were all individually and collectively experiencing our ultimate fantasy world; Shrek, Beauty and the Beast or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe… We all talked about our favorite fairy tales on the way up the sculpture.

Our imaginations were being flooded with ideas.

BACK to NATURE folks.

The children’s festival, on the fringe of the pond, is like entering into another realm, another world, another place in time.

The promo clip for the event says it all.

It’s a place where the village raises the children, and were the transition into young adulthood not so harsh as it is now.

The elders visit occasionally and watching silently over and smiling

My son at planting in th wetlands
My son at planting in the wetlands valley for butterflies to come and habitat in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fun, mud, cooking working shops to make pizza, puppets, dancing, parades and freedom!

Freedom to play and be a child.

If you need to awaken your inner child or balance out your carbon foot print, head up to the Planting. Check out their website for more info.

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The Planting Festival – a time to nurture nature

08/05/2016

What a wanderlust weekend playing with my children and hanging out in Woodfordia, planting trees!

A fun WET weekend (apparently the first wet Planting in 18 years)!?

We pitched our tents in the rain on Friday night and head into the festival to try to make the most of the night.

The kids are immediately on the Woodforidan page… you mean “we all get to live happily ever after?”

I am writing two more blogs on the Planting Festival – one on the man behind the festival Bill Hauritz and the other blog about the festival through my children’s eyes.

wetlands
The newly planted trees around the butterfly wetlands
Truck Woodford
Emily the truck at the Planting. What a truck

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Planting Festival
magic fairies every where at Woodfordia
Darren Percival
Mr Percival AKA Darren Percival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Planting
A typical Woodfordian patroness.
The planting
The Planting 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of my favourite moments was walking back from planting some sapplings with my son and meeting a new friend, Mel.

Two hours earlier we found ourselves standing around literally in the pouring rain listening to Noni, Peter, Tim and Helen explain plants in the wetlands, the importance of butterflies and the dilemmas of modern day weeds.

Fascinating as it was,  I must confess I only caught about 30% of the wonderful knowledge being shared as my imagination was already chasing rabbits in the fields and being distracted with wander…

And I noticed my son wasn’t far behind me day dreaming.

We buddied up with random strangers but after working together planting trees they felt like old mates.

This is a short clip that summarises a beautiful, lusciously wet and green weekend.

 

 

 

 

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