LOOKING AT LANDCARE

By CENTRAL WEST LACHLAN LANDCARE, MARG APPLEBEE

We are pleased to welcome a new, young, business owner as a workshop presenter at Homegrown Parkes on Saturday, 11 October.

Leihn Mansley has been operating his business, The Folk Roaster, from Parkes since 2023.

He began with one goal, to create truly exceptional coffee at home.

Leihn invested in a roaster, sourced the finest beans, and spent ten months fine-tuning every variable to unlock the perfect brew.

The result was a first release — Saturday Light Roast — a clean, balanced, single-origin Australian coffee designed to celebrate clarity, flavour, and craft.

Since then, Leihn has continued to roast with one purpose in mind: to elevate the home coffee experience and give every home barista the tools to become a coffee artisan.

Leihn will step workshop attendees through the process of bean selection, flavours, roasting, blending and storage.

All of the processes that have to be done well to obtain the perfect brew!

Leihn’s workshop will be held in the Cooke Park Pavilion at 11am.

We ask that attendees book a spot so that we can cater for everyone and attendees can go in the draw to win one of several prizes at the end of the workshop.

If you would like to learn more about coffee bean types, roasting, blending and much more, register for this workshop via StickyTickets: Coffee Roasting with The Folk Roaster.

Our Homegrown Parkes event will kick off at 9am, where we will welcome representatives from across NSW for the State Tidy Towns Sustainability Awards weekend.

This will be followed by the Parkes Shire Concert Band performance.

We are fortunate to be joined by the Parkes Music and Dramatic Society at 10am with excepts from their production Little Shop of Horrors.

Following the Parkes M and D performance, we will be joined by Parkes Dance Co at 10.30am, providing half an hour of performances.

Spicy Mercury are back! They will be knocking out some tunes from 11am.

Phil and Nadia Donato are going to wrap up our workshops for the day, with a special Tiramisu Workshop in Cooke Park Pavilion from 12.30pm…..more info next week!

To finish up the day, we will have a very special performance from our local Fijian community, who will be singing up a storm to celebrate Fiji Day, officially acknowledged the day before Homegrown Parkes, but celebrated with us at Homegrown Parkes on 11 October at 1.30pm!

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