Morehead will host an educational festival on Saturday, June 1. Officials said the second annual Heart and Soil Garden Festival will teach important agricultural lessons to the community. The event is organized by The Painted Hills Garden Club of Morehead.
The festival will be held inside the Carl D. Perkins Center in Morehead, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dee Diebighauser, President of Painted Hills Garden Club, said she hopes the event will spark the joy of gardening in attendees.
“The more that you learn, you realize it’s not as intimidating as you think it will be. If you start with, say a raised bed garden which is where I started here in Kentucky, it leads to two and three, and now I have eight. I’m canning and pickling and picking all summer long,” said Diebighauser.
Officials said two craft workshops are new for this year’s event and will allow a limited number of visitors to take home their own salt cellars and bluebird boxes.
Diebighauser said the event will teach attendees about their local ecosystem.
“We’re going to have all sorts of things for people to learn. Plus, information tables so that they’ll be able to recognize an invasive plant from a good plant and a butterfly host plant from a bad plant,” said Diebighauser.
Food, beverage, and plant vendors will also be at the event, including Meg’s Culinary Kitchen and the Bean Bag Coffee Truck. Diebighauser said The Painted Hills Garden Club works within the Morehead community to educate and advocate for gardening.