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Sincere Fall Family Fun Festival Thank You!
     
A sincere thank you goes out to all who helped make Scenic Nursery’s first Fall Family Fun Festival, September 25-27th, such a successful event. Linked with the Fall Festival, Scenic Nursery also ran a canned food drive through the Salvation Army’s Emergency Food Program. We applaud you all for bringing in well over 400 cans for local families in need!
Despite temperatures over 100 degrees, the weekend was filled with fun, food, music, education, and sales. Friday started with eager customers taking advantage of the 30% off everything sale. As people left with carts full of plants, it allowed us to start thinking about some of the new, unique plants we will be carrying in Scenic’s near future. Friday evening heated up with a Modesto Garden Club Evening Glow Planting Party where friends gathered to plant their fall containers. We thank the Modesto Garden Club members and friends for all of your support in making this event a success. These participants brought in around 175 cans for local families in need. Wow!
There was so shortage of sunshine Saturday the 26th as our customers gathered to enjoy community education, BBQ hotdogs, fun kids games, live music, and great deals. Mr. Howard Rogers of California Sky Ads kicked things off as he flew over the nursery and surrounding area with a banner proclaiming our Fall Festival event and sale: Thank you very much Mr. Rogers! By 9:30 am, 4-H, FFA, and Ag Science students from Enochs High, Downey High, Johansen High, and Grace Davis High arrived with rabbits, piglets and chickens to show off to all the youthful participants. We appreciate very much these young adults who came to educate kids and adults on the importance of agriculture in this area and for a sustainable future. They also helped young festival-goers plant containers to take home and enjoy. For their participation, these organizations earned community service hours. We look forward to working with these fine young men and women again in the future and say thank you for coming!
We would like to thank the Stanislaus Wildlife Care Center for sharing information Saturday. Oscar the rescued owl greeted customers as his handler taught and encouraged people to learn more about what we can do as a community to help rescued California wild animals. To rescue people from landscape design mistakes, Jim Rogers laid out the basics to great landscape design at 10 am. Thanks to all who attended. We look forward to even more learning opportunities with Jim. He is a wealth of knowledge.
From 11 am-2 pm, kid’s enjoyed face painting, balloons, bean bag toss, the fishing game, arts and crafts, planting, petting, and lunch. Adults shopped as they enjoyed Jazzoni, a local jazz and blues band, who created incredible ambiance. Jazzoni was fabulous and their participation was greatly valued. We look forward to having them back for another event. Sunday, Rose Loveall came to give her back-by-demand talk on choosing perennials and herbs—a thank you to her for coming in.
As we wrapped up the Fall Festival, we began thinking about our upcoming events. We’ve got many fun and informative workshops, demos, and seminars planned for fall. Catch CA native plant expert Jim Brugger’s talk on California native plants this weekend October 10th at 10am(which we now carry). Come in for a Coming Events handout for more complete details or look on the coming events sidebar for more information. Our Sunflower Children’s Events lineup will be on the back of that handout. Check out the Annual Scarecrow Stuffing Event and Spooktacular Halloween Happening! Fun, Fun, Fun!
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