Saturday 13th August 2022

The Old Coal Yard Belmont Road CT5 1QP

Whitstable Farmers' Market Scavenger Hunt

Come along and hunt for the plants hidden at the market and collect some interesting facts to create your own plant folder to take home, plus a free packet of seeds for the first 25 to complete the hunt!

Pick up your scavenger hunt sheet at the bread stall.Suitable for all ages

Free.

10.00 - 15.00 Stream Walk Community Garden

Slow and Wild Stitching from Nature

Yvonne Fuchs founder of the widely followed SLOW STITCH COMMUNITY introduces her thoughts, practice tips and techniques about this art form so that you will find a new way to be relaxed, happy and creative in slow stitch whilst in nature.

We are working in the Stream Walk community garden in Whitstable that is a haven for wild life and full of inspiration with vegetables and flowers in abundance.

There is a covered outdoor studio waiting for you with good access.

Suitable for beginners and those who want to deepen their practice

All SLOW stitch materials are provided, but please bring a small sketch book A5 and pencil/pencil crayons.

Lots of places to find lunch locally and sit on the beach, but you are also most welcome to bring a packed lunch.

You are welcome to bring a basic stitching kit of scissors, variety of threads and favourite fabric scraps if you already work with this practice.

We will look at all the basics of SLOW stitching and work stitching on reclaimed fabrics from the inspiration in nature.

You will make lots of samples that will be made into a small keepsake item to take home!

Please join us and be part of the JOY.

Bookings via Eventbrite 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/slow-and-wild-stitching-in-nature-relax-and-create-in-our-fab-garden

12.30-16.30 United Reform Church, Middle Wall

Wild About Whitstable Eco Fair

The Eco Fair will offer an exciting opportunity to visit stalls that will showcase various organisations, both in the Whitstable area and wider Kent, that are involved in the natural environment, biodiversity, natural products and sustainability. This will include Canterbury Council Environmental  team, SOS ( save our seas) The Kent Bat Group, Kent Wildlife Trust, Whitstable Horticulture Society, Whitstable and Herne Bay Beekeepers and more.....

A summary of participating stalls will be published shortly.

10.30 to 16.30 Whitstable Community Museum and Gallery Wednesday to Saturday

Hog's Fennel - nationally rare, locally plentiful - display

Visit Whitstable Museum to view a display about the nationally rare plant, Hog’s fennel, and the moths that depend on it and a display of some other plants found along the seashore between Faversham Creek, Whitstable, and Long Rock SSSI. An exhibition of Kent seaweeds including information on the history and uses of seaweeds will be displayed in the Museum later in the year.

Photo by Sue Carfrae