Each year, the Nelson City and Tasman District Councils hold a weekend Expo in August at the Trafalgar Centre in Nelson, promoting sustainability messages, products and services. Since we started in 2001, Ecofest has become established as one of the biggest showcases for environmentally friendly products, services and messages in New Zealand.
You can find out more about ecofest at their website -----> click this
Of course the Brook Sanctuary had to be there! So on Friday we packed up a bunch of stuff from the entrance building and set up a mini entrance building at Founder's Park (the location of this year's Eco-fest).
The first shift of day 1. Trust chair Dave Butler and trust member Chris Hemi on the left and Rick (project coordinator) and I (orange hat wearing educator) on the right.
On Saturday morning the weather might not have been SO flash, with some very low snow on the Tasman ranges, but ecofest was HOT!
We had a lot of people come over to talk to us about the sanctuary concept - many of our trust members were rostered on to engage with the public over the weekend.
We even had a membership sign up special for EcoFest.... The Brook Barrell!
It was certainly a wonderful opportunity to bring the Brook concept even closer to the public awareness and we enjoyed meeting and talking to everyone!
We even managed to have a quick look around at what everyone else was presenting over the two days.
Well done everyone!
And thanks to all those volunteers that supported with the event and pack up!
Especially Wiff - who certainly is very active in his support!! (see below!!)
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