The beauty of autumn will be celebrated as the first edition of the Alpine Harvest Festival takes place in Hāwea Flat this Sunday. The festival is hosted in by a partnership of the Your Garden Coach podcast — a monthly podcast providing practical gardening advice — and Alpine Blooms Farm, where the festival will take place. Alpine Blooms Farm owner Vera Yakzhik said that the festival aims to fill a gap in the the area’s festive calendar at a beautiful time of year. "We don’t really have a Harvest Festival per se in the area where it’s just celebrating the autumn and the autumn colours and the bounty of it. "We decided that we would like to organise one and it came to be from there. "We would just like people to celebrate autumn because it’s absolutely stunning," Ms Yakzhik said. Ms Yakzhik said that the event is designed to be a fun day out for families on Mother’s Day, with a range of stalls and autumnal activities designed to celebrate harvest.…