Visitors have filled all the places in the workshops and activities organized at the first family festival of the Botànic of the Costa Brava
The first family botanical festival Marimurtríssim, held today at the Marimurtra Botanical Garden in Blanes, has been a great success. The Garden posted the sold out ticket poster two days before its celebration and all the workshops and activities planned to bring science and botany closer to all audiences have been filled.
Families enthusiastically participated in dynamic and educational workshops focused on improving the biodiversity of our local environment, where they had to work as a team to build insect hotels, bird nest boxes and bird feeders. Two of the workshops that were very popular were those on dyeing plants and printing with natural dyes, where Mònica Dòria, from Bonatinta prints, guided attendees to extract natural dyes from plants and print figures of different shapes on clothing bags.
Attendees also enjoyed making fruit and vegetable dishes as a family in the healthy cooking workshop with bloggers Montse Verdaguer and Júlia Navarro from Kilòmetre0.cat.
During the Festival, all visitors to the Garden were able to follow an autonomous gymkhana accompanied by a leaflet, where families discovered clues inside the Garden and found plants to find the answers.
Guided tours have also been part of the Festival’s cultural offer, focused on understanding how plants and animals help each other, how some plants help us fight pests and the role that biodiversity plays in managing a garden.
The collaboration of AFIC has also been counted on, which has organized a series of photographic challenges, and among these photographs will be a prize drawn for the most original. Among the stands of the collaborators have also participated the Oncolliga Foundation and the Aspronis Foundation with the sale of products created by them.
The stands of the nurseries have participated the ACAO, the ASAC, Yuyo Cactus and Suculentitis, who have explained some conservation techniques of specific species, in addition to the sale of plants, one of the most special memories after the visit to the botanist.
During the festival there has been a gastronomic offer of proximity with local establishments such as Bocado, Sa Croqueta and Laviret.
Josep Borrell, General Director of the Carl Faust Foundation, owner and manager of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, has given a very positive assessment of this first festival, regarding which he stated “the public response has been fantastic, the Marimurtra team has done a great job in organizing the event, aimed at the maximum satisfaction of our visitors, and the collaborators and sponsors have helped us make this Festival possible, so we are more than satisfied. In this sense, starting tomorrow we will start working on the next edition of the Marimurtríssim”, he pointed out.
This festival is part of the actions that the Carl Faust Foundation, manager of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, is organizing this 2024 to celebrate its centenary. One hundred years ago, Carl Faust created a botanical garden on the first cliffs of the Costa Brava to be able to offer it to science and scientists. He created a place where plants and life could be studied. In addition, it is also the 150th anniversary of his birth. So, following Faust’s vision, it is a day to celebrate life, science and plants and also bring all these concepts closer to future generations: a day designed for the whole family.
