February 12 | CanberraDigest

Hello Canberra,

⛅️ Weather: 30° and Partly Cloudy.

📆 Today: It’s Monday 12th February

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This Weekend: 🥬 City Farm Open Day

The Canberra City Farm, located on Dairy Road in Fyshwick, is a community garden with communal areas and 60 allotments. This weekend, The City Farm is holding an open day.

You can tour the farm and learn about the history of the site, participate in various workshops and purchase produce and seedlings from the farm.

There will also be a fruit tree netting swap. Bring your unsafe garden netting and swap old, large-mesh nets for wildlife-friendly nets, which have been purchased with funds from the ACT Government.

It’s a free event. Details here.

On Now: 🐶 Story Dogs at ACT Libraries

ACT Libraries are running Story Dogs this term. Each child gets an exclusive 20-minute reading time with a Story Dog. This program is for children aged 7 years and up makes reading fun for reluctant readers and those facing reading challenges. The accepting, loving nature of dogs gives this program its magic and helps children relax, open up, try harder and have fun while reading to a friendly, calm dog. Details here.

New Eats: 🍲 My Banh Mi in Dickson

Located in a car park off Woolley Street in Dickson is My Banh Mi, a new Vietnamese street food van serving Banh Mi, Pho and other delicious Vietnamese food. I believe it’s currently open for lunch and dinner. You can find it here.

Something To Do: 🛶 Taste of Paddling

If you’re new to paddling, the Burley Griffin Canoe Club hosts Taste of Paddlingsessions. You will be able to try out a variety of boats and learn about equipment, boat handling, entry and exit techniques, basic paddling techniques and basic capsize procedures. The next session is this weekend, and there’s another in March. Details here.

Coming Up: 🐄 The Royal Canberra Show

The Canberra Show is running from the 23-25th February at Epic. This year’s program features an Outback Stockman Show, a Woodchopping championship, a farmyard nursery, racing pigs, a science extravaganza and much more. You can buy tickets online, and all ticket holders can travel for free on light rail or bus. Details here.

Did you Know: Sigrid Thornton

Did you know Australian actor Sigrid Thornton was born in Canberra on this day in 1959? Her parents were at the ANU before moving soon after to Brisbane, where she spent her formative years.