Organisers of the Horsham Spring Garden and Sustainable Lifestyle festival have been encouraged by the number of families that attended the 2019 event on Saturday and Sunday.
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Committee member Michael Speirs said 1500 people came through the gates of Horsham Botanical Gardens on Saturday alone, the same amount of people that would normally visit the festival across two days.
The star of the show was celebrity gardener Costa Georgiadis. La Vergne Lehman of Grampians Central West Waste Resource Recovery Group, who sponsored Mr Georgiadis' visit, said he spent the whole day at the festival on Saturday.
"He bought plenty of plants himself from traders and had kids around him all day," she said. "He gave the plants to them and gave them tips on how to look after them."
Ms Lehmann said it was good to see a mix of older visitors who had already formed habits on how to live more sustainably, and children learning them for the first time.
"If you understand the natural life of plants you're going to be more engaged in using resources properly, and if you grow your own vegetables you're going to waste less food," she said.
Jodie Membrey and her son Hunter Pohnler, both of Haven, were among the attendees. Ms Membrey said it was important to make children aware of the need to conserve resources from an early age.
"We read books to Hunter at night about looking after the environment, he loves it," she said.
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