The weekend that was: A trip through the Hills Garlic Festival in pictures
By Nelson Daily Editor
With the theme Homemade – Homegrown – Organic this year’s event featured 160 vendors selling everything from organic garlic (go figure) to local crafts of art and jewelry to pottery, textiles, lotions and herbal remedies.
And The Nelson Daily photographer Della Schafer nearly captured them all, as well as some of the 6,000 or so people that attended the event last weekend in New Denver.
You can check out her photos of the event at http://www.schaferphoto.ca/ or directly at http://www.schaferphoto.ca/Events/Local-Festivals-Farmers/2011-Garlic-Festival-New/18996606_k6Grst#1475788914_fkJ4S9H.
The Garlic Festival is a local community fundraiser put on by local volunteers through the Hills Recreation Society (a non-profit society).
Over the years it has become one of the highlights of the Hills/New Denver/Silverton community and has raised money to provide recreation facilities and services for the area including basketball/tennis courts, yoga classes, children’s recreation programs, and local cross-country ski trails.
What started as a small gathering of friends who decided to have a garlic-themed pot luck supper in the park grew quickly to a community event drawing local garlic growers and garlic lovers to the Hills Community park.
By 2003, the Garlic Festival had outgrown its home and was moved to Centennial Park in New Denver.
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