Charlie Werner welcomes visitors to Sandford Millennium Green 25th anniversary picnic, video Alan Quick IMG_4659

Transcript

00:00Thank you so much for coming for the Sanford Millennium Green Big Picnic.

00:06Some people still talking.

00:09What we used to do in primary school is to put your hand up when you got everybody's attention.

00:16It's alright. Simon's listening now.

00:21Thank you so much.

00:2325 years ago, this was just a field.

00:30It was a boggy field with a stream running on the edge of it.

00:36Some visionaries, I'll call them, decided to build a path between Sanford and Crediton.

00:48And Millennium Green was the first third of the path.

00:54And at the time, Tony Blair was giving...

00:57Well, not personally, but there was a Millennium Green grant.

01:03So we applied for that and were successful.

01:05There are some people here who are Sanford Millennium Green pioneers.

01:20They were here right at the beginning.

01:22So if anybody was here right at the beginning, just put your hands up, please.

01:26These are the people that you need to thank.

01:34And also, all the people that continue to make this place such a special place.

01:40Now, as it's such a blistering hot summer day, there will be water on the information tent if you get a bit thirsty.

01:55And also, Sanford Orchards have got water and all sorts of stuff.

01:59There's a few technical problems with Sanford Orchards at the moment.

02:02Oh, it's all sorted.

02:06You can pay with your card now.

02:09OK, I'm just going to hand over now to my friend Steve, who knows a lot about plants and he knows a lot about hedges.

02:18Ha ha ha!

02:20No thank you.

02:21All right.

02:21Oh, thank you.

02:21All right.

02:22All right.