On Sunday, September 21, TMN set up a table at Millican
Reserve’s monthly farmers market. If you don’t know what it is, Millican
Reserve is almost 3,000 acres of land just north of the small town of
Millican. The land is being maintained
by the Millican Reserve Land Conservancy, a group dedicated to building a
community that is nature oriented, interesting in wildlife conservation, the
arts, and farming.
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| Millican Reserve |
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| Millican Reserve |
For the Market, the table was jointly hosted by both member
of Rio Brazos Audubon and TMN as most of the members actually belonged to both
organizations! Thanks to Betty Vermeire,
Laura Biddle, Abby Ince, Mark McDermott and Rick Laughlin for hosting! The
market ran from 10 am until 2 pm with a steady stream of people throughout the
day. Along with the usual handouts and
brochures, TMN had the animal tracks matching board which was a big hit with
the kids. Thanks to Mike and Joyce Conner
for creating it! At the end of the day,
67 people stopped by the table (20 kids and 47 adults). Not huge numbers of people for 4 hours BUT
(!) I think the event tends to concentrate nature-oriented people so we get
good, quality contact with the public.
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| Betty and Laura at the TMN Booth. Thanks to everyone who helped out throughout the day! |
Millican reserve is a great place to visit! If you’ve never been out, I encourage you to
participate in an RBAS or TMN activity on the property! Hint hint! I’m going to shamelessly plug the
2nd Annual Fall Harvest and Pumpkinpalooza coming up in
October. From the Reserve’s website:
“Celebrating
local farms, arts, recreation, and wildlife, this three day event will serve as
a festive celebration of Millican Reserve’s continued growth in the Brazos
Valley community and will include a host of activities for all ages,
including a farmers’ market, music festival, an outdoor carnival, pumpkin
chunkin’, and much more. We invite you to join us at Millican Reserve as we
share our vision of building healthy community around nature.”
And by pumpkin chuckin’ they really mean pumpkin chuckin’…
with a trebuchet!
Want To Help Out At Pumpkinpalooza?
TMN is looking for people (like you!) to help out with
hosting a booth for Sunday, October, 26th, from 10 am to about 4
pm. If you are interested in helping
out, please contact Joyce Conner or Sarah Laughlin.
Millican Reserve
Information:
http://millicanreserve.org/what-we-do/
Posted and written by Sarah Laughlin
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