Festival of Harvest on Saturday

Take your first step into autumn at Thrive’s Festival of Harvest on Saturday September 4.
Local produce, including our own home-grown seasonal vegetables, will be on offer alongside delicious preserves and delightful gifts from our garden shop.
We will also have a variety of plants for sale and our festival at Thrive’s Trunkwell Garden Project in Beech Hill, near Reading marks the end of the 2010 Plant a Difference campaign with the final plant swap of the year.
The Plant a Difference campaign will start again in earnest throughout 2011 so, thanks to your generosity, we can continue to deliver wonderful boxes of herbs, perennials or vegetables direct to the homes of disabled people.
Thrive’s Chief Executive Nicci Carruthers said: “Our Plant a Difference campaign has touched the lives of many disabled gardeners.
“The money raised through plant swaps has allowed us to buy and send almost 80 boxes of herbs, perennials and vegetables straight to the door of a disabled person.
“Please help us reach more people by taking part in the plant swap. The idea is simple. Take along a plant, swap it for another and make a donation to Thrive. If you cannot make it here on September 4, why not hold your own event?”
One happy recipient said: “It was a thrill to receive my plants, I will enjoy looking after them, take great pleasure in watching them grow and will always be reminded of the kind people at Thrive who provided them for me.”
Another said: “It was a super box (of plants) I know it will give me a lot of enjoyment and pleasure.”
The Festival of Harvest is a FREE event running between 11am and 4pm at the Trunkwell Garden Project, The Geoffrey Udall Centre, Beech Hill, Reading, RG7 2AT.
Visitors will also be able to see our gold winning Chelsea Garden, now a permanent fixture at Thrive HQ, and wander around the delightful three-acre Victorian walled gardens which are cared for by disabled gardeners. Home-made tea and cakes will also be on offer.