Scarecrows are very much part of the Bedford Garden Festival scene: you'll find them popping up all over!
Joy Hodgson is co-ordinating the village scarecrow competition this year. For information, contact her at The Country Squire 046 685 0575
Ivor Markman, Weekend Post Photojournalist, published these comments about our scarecrows on 1 November 2008:
If you were one of the speeding motorists caught off-guard by the "traffic cop" and his gatsometer radar gun as you entered Bedford from the Adelaide direction over the past weekend, don’t expect a ticket.
The “cop” was actually an entrant in the annual Bedford Garden Festival scarecrow competition and raised many eyebrows and laughs.
Appreciative visitors were spotted all over town stopping and taking photographs of the many imaginative creations.
The “cop” was the handiwork of Eaglehout factory employees and won first prize in the business category of the competition, which was held for the third time.
Organisers are hoping to hold the competition again next year.
An elderly gentleman wearing a tweed jacket and smoking a pipe won the garden category for Squires B&B while “Sarah,” made by the children of Bedford Primary, won the children’s category.
The farm school section winner was displayed at Eildon in the Baviaans River Valley. Their entry consisted of two scarecrows, a man beating a home-made drum and a dancing woman.