Great Outdoors Expo
Venue: Glen Lyn Park, Giles
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, September 1, 2012
Time: 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Speaking Engagements
Cost:
$5.00 per vehicle per day.

Description:
The Great Outdoors Expo will occur on Labor Day Weekend from Friday, August 31st to Saturday, September 1st along the New River at Glen Lyn Park in Giles County. Farm, forest, field and fish, education and fun!

Enjoy seminars, demonstrations, farmers market, music and exhibits that will engage all ages. A hands-on learning environment that will also entertain you!

Saturday Events:
• 7:00 am - Farmers Market
• 8:00 am - Antique Tractor Pull
• 9:00 am - Edible Landscapes
• 10:00 am - Lori Miller & Joanne Anderson horseback performance
• 10:00 am - Geochaching by Jessica Coker of Mountain Lake Conservancy
• 10:30 am - Top Ten Garden Pests and Diseases
• 11:00 am - Cooking Demonstration by Michael Behmoiras of The Bank Food and Drink
• 11:00 am - Dept of Forestry "Wild Fire Mitigation"
• 12:00 pm - Deer Run Drifters
• 12:30 pm - Radford Cloggers
• 1:00 pm - Best Management Practices Program in Virginia
• 1:00 pm - Geochaching by Jessica Coker of Mountain Lake Conservancy
• 1:30 pm - Deer Run Drifters
• 2:00 pm - Goat Contest
• 3:00 pm - Developing alternate sources of water and its importance to the farm
• 3:00 pm - Geochaching by Jessica Coker of Mountain Lake Conservancy
• 3:00 pm - Ben Harris Demonstrates Horse Logging
• 4:00 pm - Jason Rutledge talks about Restorative Forestry
• 5:00 pm - Horse-Pulling Contest

For directions and location of Glen Lyn Park, visit: https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=Glen+Lyn+Park,+Glen+Lyn,+VA&aq=&sll=36.902943,-81.002548&sspn=2.128122,2.331848&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=Glen+Lyn+Park,&hnear=Glen+Lyn,+Giles,+Virginia&ll=37.372466,-80.858797&spn=0.010294,0.013077

For more information, visit: http://www.greatoutdoors-expo.com/index.html

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