The Muster- Tessa Millar: Thriving Southland

Tessa Miller of Thriving Southland looks at a pretty cool rural competition coming up that they are organising for the busy season.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome back to the muster. Tessa Faars is the music
as we catch up with our next guest, Tessa Miller,
Catchment coordinator for Thriving Southland gid A.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Tessa, Hey, Andy, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, always good to catch up now. Thriving Southland has
been a busy year.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, it has been. It's actually been a busy year
in a busy few months. We had a successful ADM
just the other day where we had Ewan Mathison step
down in one of the Lovely Clear officers stepped back on.
We've been planning for the Gore Catching Group Wetland Open

(00:47):
Day which will be on Thursday, and we've been working
on this year's Christmas competition.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, we'll touch on the Catchman Group Wetland Open Day
and this just personifies the work that's happening around the province.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah. It's actually incredible to see where the Ward's Wetlands started,
which was meant to be a small wetland which was
funded by Fishing Game and West Pact, but then they
decided that actually it needed to go way bigger and
so now it's been funded by so many different businesses
as well as the Wards family who have really just

(01:22):
gotten behind, you know, trying to make this wetland as
beautiful and big as it could be, but make it
accessible for as much of the community as possible and
we can learn ye what the farmers are after about
wetlands at the same time. So their open day is
going to be from twelve pm for a barbecue, one

(01:43):
pm kickoff and finished by three and Katie will make
sure that we are sticking to the timeframe I think.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
And that's happening Friday the fourth, which by memory will
be this Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yes there is there a fourth yep, right now.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
This Christmas competition. We always catch up with you guys
at Thriving about the Christmas comp What are the deets
this year? Because this is really cool.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm actually really stoked to be talking to you about
the Christmas comp because I actually put up my Christmas
tree of the weekend, so for us to December ready
to go. Yeah, it's bet between and twenty five. And
you can even enter as a catchment group, a business, individual,
farm or just any way that actually suits you. It's

(02:25):
open to everyone in Southland, So whether you are painting bails,
lining up palettes, stacking ties, decorating your shed or getting
freed of with your Christmas display. We can't like to
see it.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
We heart back to the COVID times. Not that we
want to, but all the decorations in the way of
hay bales on the road side around the province, it
was a thing of beauty least be perfectly honest. And
the fact that this competition personifies everything that's going on
in the farm in a rural sense and what's been
happening and the way that people use their imaginations. It
is really neat.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Absolutely, Yeah, it's been it's been a tough old season
and so yeah, every year we find new things. My
favorite of all time was the Hennings Nutcracker with their
plastic drums, but we've had yeah. Last year's entry was
the Davis family, which was sent to got stuck in
the ft Rock Flats and it's just awesome when you

(03:20):
are driving past all down the road and you get
to see all the Christmas decorations out there and all
the farmer's kind of getting into it.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Right. So how do you enter?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
So to inter send us a photo of your Christmas
display along with the name of your display by the
fourteenth of December to office at Thrivysouthland dot co dot
zied and we're actually also running a kid's Christmas coloring
competition which sends your entries along to the same address,
same date, but we just jump on the website to

(03:55):
find the Christmas competition.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So you suving down there download obviously.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeap, just a pdf. Yep, get into it kids young
and old.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Pretty much though. This just personifies the time of year,
getting kids to color things in, getting a few presents,
thinking about center and the likes and it'll works. Sence.
Letss be honest. It's a bit of a rip three
weeks ahead of us. But at the same time, what
you talked about is about recognizing the cool things that
you can do on farm if you get an hour
or so with the family, just get creative and thing Roight.

(04:26):
What can we do to pract people's day out when
they're driving past.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, exactly. I can't wait to get into it this year.
So hopefully the Christmas spirit is loud and proud out there.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Absolutely. Do you do you rock two Christmas trees in
the house or just one?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Just the one? But it's fairly large, so yeahs a
lot to connor racing around the house.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, good luck Connor was that when he had a
big weekend his did yourself, but that's a topic for
another day. Testa maet out of Thriving South and thanks
very much for your time on the Muster. Thanks and
Tessa Miller from Thriving South and get amongst it. There
were some really cool stuff happened in this space last
year regarding their competition, their Christmas competition. So yeah, an

(05:11):
organization doing some really great work. Senior Sergeant Gary Edington
and the Gore Police is up next. You're listening to
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