There is just over a week from our next Homegrown Parkes event.

Our new sign is up, thanks to Parkes Community Arts and we will be sharing all of the fantastic stallholders and events over the next week in the lead up to this community event in Cooke Park.

We will also be welcoming attendees of the Keep Australia Beautiful NSW Tidy Towns Sustainability Awards to Homegrown Parkes.

Because Homegrown Parkes won the Community Spirit and Inclusion Award at the Keep Australia Beautiful Tidy Towns NSW Awards in 2024, we thought it was only fitting that when we host the Tidy Towns Awards in October, that we share our event with visitors to our Shire as part of the weekend event.

We look forward to welcoming Parkes Dance Co to Homegrown Parkes for the first time! They will be taking the stage at 10.30am, followed by Parkes M&D with a preview of their upcoming production Little Shop of Horrors! 

Parkes Shire Concert Band will be welcoming us all to the Park at 9am. We are always proud to be supporting our local performers.

Educational Workshops will again be one of the highlights of the next event, highlighting processes for using locally produced food and products with the aim of encouraging locals to have a go and grow in their own backyard….or have readily available in the pantry.

We have two fabulous free workshops to share with you. The first is with Leihn Mansley, The Folk Roaster, who will be teaching us all about coffee roasting. Register for his workshop here.

Our other workshop with Phil and Nadia Donato, will be held at 12.30pm. Join us to learn how to make Tiramisu! Register for this workshop here.

As part of the Keep Australia Beautiful Tidy Town’s Weekend, we are offering Homegrown Parkes attendees an opportunity to join one of three bus trips leaving from Cooke Park at 2.00pm.

The First trip will visit the Galing Gindhay water play park at Kelly Reserve and then on to the Parkes Wetlands – book here.

The second trip will head out to Lake Endeavour – book here.

The third trip will head to the Parkes CSIRO Telescope (The Dish) – book here.

This event is made possible with funding and in-kind support from Parkes Shire Council, Evolution Mining Northparkes operations and Central West Lachlan Landcare.

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