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Family fun is in full swing at Mercer Arboretum & Botanic Gardens’ 6th Annual Garden Faire scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, September 22 and 23, 2012 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sponsored by The Mercer Society (TMS), this family festival takes place in the natural picnic area on the west side of Aldine Westfield Road.
This two-day event features a variety of entertainment and free activities for the kids including “Stan the Train Man” train rides around the picnic loop. The Kids’ Korner Activity Area sponsored by The Mercer Society offers kids nature-related crafts such as making and decorating hats with recycled materials, planting seeds to take home, creating a three-dimensional frog from paper, making a hummingbird feeder, and assembling a book on snakes.
For those looking for that one of a kind gift for your favorite gardener, TMS will have a booth offering gift items sold in The Gift Shoppe. Other nature-related vendor booths that will be onsite will have the following items available for purchase:
- Herbal soaps, local honey, and quirky yard art
- Locally-made garden furniture and planting boxes
- Original artwork, hand-made garden bags and aprons, photography, and pottery
- Hair bows, sun catchers, jewelry, hand-made insects and garden totems.
Regional plant societies will be selling carnivorous plants, gingers, herbs, orchids, trees, shrubs, and more; pet rescue groups will have animals that are open for adoption; and a variety of concessions will be available for purchasing food or festival goers can pack a picnic.
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Kids' Korner
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Free activity area for children |
Free Train Ride |
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Children can take a train ride tour of Mercer's gardens along the trails with Stan the Train Man. |
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Garden, Nature, and Plant-Related Societies and Vendors |
- Ask A Master Gardener
- Bonsai Society Houston
- Chrysanthemum Society
- Dave's Local Honey/Wiltex Houston
- Edible Earth Resources
- Green Mountain Energy
- Habitat for Humanity
- Harris County Watershed Protection Group
- The Herb Cottage
- Indus Valley Sustainable Living Institute
- Mercer Ginger Group
- Mercer Tree & Shrub Group
- Micro-Pals
- Native Plant Society of Texas
- Orchid Express
- Orchid Obsession
- Orchids & Tropicals, LLC
- Pet Fly Trap.com
- Piney Woods Wildlife Society
- Ross Creek Organic Farm
- Tejas Tropicals
- Timberlane Utility District
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Local Plant Society |
| Art and Craft Vendors |
- André Gandin (garden scupltures)
- Art Locker, The
- Artsy Fartsy
- Clayflowerlady.com
- Eva's Pearls
- Farm Fresh Soaps
- Girl Scouts of San Jacinto
- Herbs Mint 4-U
- House of Casteel
- Janet Green Art
- Mayfield Sisters
- Metalforest
- Once Upon A Bead
- One of a Kind
- PamelaKay Designs
- Pigtail Bows
- Quilt Addiction
- Ramco Sales Co.
- River Lodge Woodworks
- Scott's Outdoor Furniture
- Sweet Southern Style Photography
- Tonya Richardson (garden totems)
- Tree Creations
- Warren's Southern Gardens
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Local Garden Art |
| Pet Rescue Organizations |
- Pure Mutts Animal Sanctuary
- Southeast Texas Labrador Retriever Rescue
- Volunteers for Animal Protection
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| Entertainment |
- Stan the Train Man (free train rides around the picnic loop)
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| The Mercer Society (TMS) Booths |
- Kids' Korner, a free activity area for children
- The Gift Shoppe
- Membership
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| Food Concessions |
- Alaskin Snow
- It's A Wrap
- Luchi and Joey's
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