Free Demonstrations
Garden Stage
10.30am Biodiversity in historic gardens – Ryan Garratt
Ryan is Buda’s Garden Curator. He will be talking about biodiversity, how to promote it and what benefits to the garden and gardener come with it. He will also look at this in relation to an intact historic garden with mixed planting like Buda and what we can learn from this to help us in our own gardens.
12pm Splitting bulbs propagation – Dr. Helen Waite
Helen has taught in the fields of both general horticulture and viticulture and has been a volunteer at Buda since the 1980s. She enjoys a national and international reputation for her pioneering research and unique expertise. Successful gardens look good because they are full of healthy plants and are well maintained. Helen will demonstrate splitting bulbs to not only produce new plants, but to keep them looking good.
1.30pm Vintage Vase Club – Ali Troup, Hand Picked Floristry
I will be demonstrating how to design into a few different vintage vases and vessels using different floral mechanics such as kenzan (also called a nail pad or flower frog) and chicken wire.
Vintage Vase Club is an online members page, on Ali’s Handpicked website, that celebrates flowers and vintage vases while teaching members how to design and decorate via regular video content.
Food Stage
10.30am Air Fryer Scones – Liz Beck
This was such a hit last year we had to bring it back. Scones without a Traditional oven!
12.00pm Saffron Butter – Squirrel Gully Saffron
Rosie Pamic will talk about how they started their farm Squirrel Gully Saffron, what you need to grow good saffron, how to get the most out of saffron, what it goes well with and she will explain what cultured butter saffron is and how to make it.
1.30pm Apple Strudel – Peter Lukaitis
A Traditional Arts Fair favourite!
Traditional Arts Stage
10.30am Rusty Bits and a Cup of Tea – Janette Wotherspoon
Hand, Stitching and natural dyeing of scraps of waste fabric and ORTS (left over threads).
The initial pieces are made from fabrics hand stitched together using any variety and combination of stitching techniques. Rusty pieces of metal have been attached by stitching or tying with thread to add interesting elements to the panel. The panels are dyed using tea bags. Once the process is completed and the fabrics are dyed, they can be used to make products.
12.00pm Traditional Straw Plaiting and Corn Dollies – Elizabeth Woodroofe
Straw plaiting and corn dolly making is a traditional craft that has been practised in many parts of the world for centuries. Corn dollies are symbolic objects, originally made from the last sheaf of grain to be harvested since it was believed that the spirit of a good harvest retreated there. This spirit was then woven into a corn dolly and kept safe until the following year or could be burnt, planted or given to the best cow to eat. In this way, good harvests were secured.
1.30pm Gelli print making – Anne Langdon
Anne will explore how to layer colours, create textures and print single print ideas, using a
method of printing using a gelitine plate.
A gelli plate is made from gelatine… You use inks or paint to print on it