(Ngataringa Community Garden event – Eco Festival)

Purpose:

  • to give to the visitors especially children life experience of nature as a human friendly environment,
  • to make them familiar with different herbs often named weeds having health benefits
  • To allow visitors to sensorial experience of chosen herbs. (Dandelion, nettle, plantain, calendula and nasturtium )
  • To put attention on symbiotic coexistence of the plants with chicken, bees and butterflies
  • To expand their understanding of using of the plants as a ingredients of herbal ointments.( demonstration of hands massage technique from Children Massaging Children programme )