FARM TOURS, LONG LUNCH & WORKSHOPS – Sunday 10th of April
Morning Activities
BRAIDWOOD FOOD COMPANY – Australian Mountain Pepper Farm Tour
In 2016 chef Tim Wimborne and his partner Meraiah Foley started the first commercial native mountain pepper orchard in N.S.W. An innovative and experimental operation that could best be described as “nature first farming”. On 4 January 2020 their business vanished into smoke when the Currowan bushfire ripped through their farm. The month following this human amplified disaster was the wettest recorded in their 20 years in the Budawang Ranges. More than two years on they are rebuilding their business quite literally from the ground up. Some of their original practices have been retained and some are new in response to the record breaking summer. Come and see what their recovery looks like and how they are planning ahead for an unknown climate future, and try a mountain pepper flavoured treat. $15/adult
9:30am – Sunday 10 April, 2022
MILLPOST – Permaculture Farm Tour
Experience over 40 years of permaculture on this 150 year old sheep farm. See vegetable and fruit gardens, poultry, worm farms, compost toilet, tree nursery, new glasshouse with cob wall, native windbreaks, oak tree plantation and merino sheep. Millpost Merino is a multigenerational farm and business that currently retails superfine yarn, ethically and regeneratively grown and milled in Australian and New Zealand.
Sunday 10th of April, 930am. $30 per person, includes morning tea, $10 for children 14 years or under.
VALUE LIFE FARM – Pigs, Goats, Chickens and Self Sufficient Living tour
Value Life Farm are offering a free tour of their family run Beyond Organic Regenerative livestock farm. The tour will involve visits to the pigs, chickens and goats and is suitable for the whole family. Dan and Jillian will explain how they raise their animals in a way that is keeping closely with nature and leveraging their innate abilities to help regenerate the landscape into a more prosperous and healthy ecosystem. They will be offering hot food for purchase so bring your appetite and they will be offer their Ethically Delicious – Beyond Organic – Pasture Raised – Pork, Chicken and Goat for sale, so don’t forget to pack the esky in the car. The tour will begin at 9am and bookings are essential.
Harvest Heritage Long Lunch
SCRUMPERS GARDEN – Heritage Long Lunch – Lebanese Family Feast
When thinking about the theme this year for Harvest Festival, I came up with so many big ideas around Heritage Food and Farming that could be integrated into our annual Harvest long lunch. However, I eventually settled on the one most meaningful to me, my own family heritage. I am first generation Lebanese and grew up at my grandmother’s knee, growing and cooking seasonal food. I learnt from my mother and even travelled to visit family in Lebanon. I am fortunate to have this rich food heritage and would love to share it with you in a Lebanese family feast for Harvest Festival Long Lunch. Cooking with me for this event will be my mother and daughter, three generations of women from one family, all with a passion for amazing food and local seasonal eating.
Sunday 10th of April, 1230pm. Adult tickets include a glass of wine for $45
Afternoon Activities
AWOL – Another Way of Living tour
AWOL is a place where we are trying to [re]learn how to be in reciprocity and connection. We try to listen to the landscape and do the best we can while continually learning more.
We will guide you through an in-depth tour to see how we’re applying what we’ve learned so far to help us and the land thrive with each other to live a rewarding life. We’ll share our experiences interacting with this ecosystem through managed grazing of kangaroos, turkeys, goats and chooks, as well as the returning of cultural burning to this relationship.
We’ll also likely share how we’re integrating the chooks with composting and vegetable garden, worm farm septic with orchard, living spaces with kitchen garden and perennial food production, bees, garden kitchen including rocket stove, huge pantry full of our preserves, cellar and meat room (in the making), passive solar house design (new and and retrofitted) and more.
Living on and nourished by Ngunnawal, Ngambri, Ngarigu, Yuin, Wiradjuri & Gundungara Country. A percentage of sales goes to SEED, a youth led indigenous organisation, to help Pay the Rent of living on stolen land.
Sunday 10th of April, 330pm. Adult tickets $15-$35
VALUE LIFE FARM – Chicken Butchery Workshop
We are delighted to be able to offer a hands on chicken butchery workshop. You will leave the workshop with the knowledge and confidence to process your own chickens at home. With all of the constant and relentless uncertainty in the world, the real life skills of being able to feed your family may have never been more important. We will work through how to use modern day equipment such as a poultry plucker, but also the very basics of how you can do small numbers at home with just what you already have at hand. The cost is $50 for individuals or $70 for couples. Chickens will be available for purchase on the day as well as our usual offerings of Pork, Chicken and Goat. Book in now as numbers are limited to a small group so as to ensure maximum benefit to all participants.
Sunday 10th of April at 3pm. The workshop will be held on the farm and details further details are available on enquiry.
