Logan Eco Action Festival 2019

Free family fun promised at LEAF

If you can’t reuse it, refuse it!

That will be the take-home message from this year’s Logan Eco Action Festival, better known as LEAF, which will be back for its ninth year next month.

Gardening guru and self-proclaimed “friend of the festival” Costa Georgiadis, from ABC TV’s Gardening Australia show, will again headline the event for 2019, continuing his strong track record of inspiring clean green living in Logan. Costa will be joined by several other green-living superstars, whose names will be announced in coming weeks.

The event will also feature a range of workshops and demonstrations promoting tips and tricks on sustainable living practices such as plant-based cooking, cheese making, keeping backyard chickens, kokedama making and composting.

Festival highlights

Sustainability Exhibitors

Discover how easy it is to live more sustainably with a range of different exhibitors offering information, including local beekeeping, how to care for local wildlife, sustainable household practices and local resources supporting sustainable living.

Growers and Producers

Connect with local growers and producers, as well as those organisations that care for injured wildlife and those that help to keep local waterways and green spaces in their natural state.

Local government services

Introduce the kids to a range of local services that form our community services. A learned appreciation for what happens “behind the scenes” is a great foundation for kids to understand how communities work.

Food Options

Whether you fancy a BBQ chargrill, French crepes, or paella, you will find a range of different delicious food options at the Logan Eco Action Festival 2019. Plenty of healthy refreshing drinks are on offer too, including iced tea, juices and coffee. You are also welcome to pack a lunch and bring it along, with Logan Eco Action Festival being held on the leafy Griffith University’s Logan Campus.

Logan Eco Action Festival kids’ zone

A free kids’ zone at the Logan Eco Action Festival welcomes families of all ages for free family fun. Activities and exhibitors include:

• Bug education with BugsEd
• Boronia Heights State School Eco Club
• Danzeit Enterprises Pty Ltd with dance and fitness for kids
• Face Painting
• Geckoes Wildlife
• Henna by Chaitali
• Karen Tyrrell Author
• Ocean Life Education
• Queensland Body Artists Society
• Recycleman Show
• Yerongpan Aboriginal Dancers

and more still to be announced.

Things for families to know before they go

• This is a free event, with all activities free within the event. All you will need to spend money on is anything you want to purchase, such as food or eco products.
• This is a pet-free event due to the myriad of wildlife on display.
• All event sites are accessible by wheelchair and prams. Disabled parking is available (just ask the traffic controllers as you enter the event).
• Free parking is available for everyone within the Griffith University campus. Alternatively, you could catch a train to Loganlea train station and make use of the shuttle buses running every 10 minutes.
• Bring a reusable water bottle for each member of your family and make use of the free water refilling stations.

The Logan Eco Action Festival will be held on Sunday May 26 at Griffith University’s Logan Campus in Meadowbrook, from 10am until 3pm.

For more information visit the LEAF website leafevent.com.au, or the Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/LEAFevent/.