'Costa's Garden: Flowers' Meanjin/Brisbane Book Launch with Costa the Garden Gnome, Brenna Quinlan, Formidable Vegetable & Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

Grow Do It and Food Connect Shed present:

THE 'COSTA'S GARDEN: FLOWERS' MEANJIN/BRISBANE BOOK LAUNCH

Everyone's favourite garden gnome, Costa Georgiadis (Gardening Australia & GA Junior, Get Grubby TV) and permaculture illustrator Brenna Quinlan have written a book for young green-thumbs everywhere all about flowers!

Come celebrate with them, permaculture party band Formidable Vegetable and GRAMMY winning kid-hop MC, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo as they launch it right down the east coast of Australia from Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland to The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney and Cygnet Folk Festival in Tasmania.

Come dressed as a garden gnome or your favourite flower and let's have a garden party like never before!

If you know anyone in any of these places, let them know and help us spread the word:

About Costa

The garden gnome who needs no introduction, Costa Georgiadis is the multiple Logie award-winning host of ABC TV's Gardening Australia and Gardening Australia Jr as well as a regular on DirtGirlWorld's Get Grubby TV. For over a decade, he has been planting seeds of community abundance all over Australia and has now written his first kids book 'Costa's Garden: Flowers' with permaculture illustrator, Brenna Quinlan.

About Brenna Quinlan

Using her art to inspire positive action in the world, Brenna has been drawing and walking the walk of regenerative living for over 10 years. Living in sustainable communities around the world and riding a bike across two hemispheres, she eventually settled into illustration, which she shares on her social media and in books such as RetroSuburbia, Milkwood, Costa's World and now 'Costa's Garden: Flowers'. 

Instagram: @brenna_quinlan_quinlan Web: brennaquinlan.com

About Formidable Vegetable

A permaculture dance band equipped with a wheelbarrow-full of tasty swingfunk beets, brass, strings and the ukulele of abundance, Formidable Vegetable enrich the soil of our minds and plant seeds of inspiration at every festival, fair and farmer’s market they perform at. Having toured to over 20 countries and with seven records under their belt, the band is paving the way for an entirely new kind of creative action for composting problems and growing abundant, community-scale solutions in their place. Over the past decade, they have become a favourite around Australia and on international festival circuits, having played at some of the biggest events on the planet such as Glastonbury and the UN's World Food Forum alongside monumental acts such as Radiohead, Tame Impala, Dolly Parton and The Rolling Stones.

Listen/Stream Music |  Instagram: @formidableveg Web: formidablevegetable.com.au Youtube: youtube.com/growdoit

About Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

GRAMMY winning kid-hop MC, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo from Asheville, North Carolina in the USA has been captivated crowds with his funky brand of positive half pint party music combining deft wordplay, great storytelling and pure positivity for over a decade. 23 Skidoo's beets n rhymes speak to kids and parents alike by bumping up the volume & kids’ self esteem, while setting the family music bar higher than a hidden cookie jar.