The Sustainable Living Festival will touch down in Tatura on Saturday as part of the Play in the Piazza in Stuart Mock Place.
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The event will feature sustainable games that require no electricity, a veggie and produce swap and sustainable living displays and stalls.
Event organiser Ross Musolino said it was the first time the festival would be partnering with Play in the Piazza, having previously been confined to Melbourne.
"One of the Landcare groups is bringing big drains and ladders game which is five metres square and uses 50 centimetre dice and you actually walk on the board, and there'll be a few board games floating around," he said.
Among the local sustainability groups attending the festival are Beneath the Wisteria, Dhurringile Landcare Group, GV Community Energy, and the Tatura Anglican Church.
"Dhurringile Landcare will have a critter show where they have displays of local small insects," Mr Musolino said.
"And there's a group that meets once a month in Shepparton called Beneath the Wisteria and they just sit under the wisteria in Maude Street Mall in Shepparton and talk about environmental sustainability.
"We don’t have a wisteria but there are some nice trees to sit under."
The day is being run in partnership with local environment group Transition Tatura who will be holding consultations on their Energy Descent Action Plan.
"It's a way to look forward for the town to reduce our overall consumption of electricity, power and resources and so on, so we're drafting a plan for the town," Mr Musolino said.
"There's also a whole bunch of groups coming together to look at the Tatura Energy Opportunity Study, looking at ways the whole town and industries can utilise the power we have and hopefully set up new local power sources such as solar or biomass or something along those lines."
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own games, but batteries and electricity are strictly prohibited.