Cook your way through Eat Local Week

Scenic Rim Eat Local Week isn’t just about eating great food. There are plenty of opportunities to improve your cooking too. Some of the region’s most passionate chefs will open their kitchens to students and reveal how to incorporate in-season Scenic Rim ingredients...

Nine Eat Local events the kids will love

Your kids won’t have time to complain about boredom when they visit the Scenic Rim for the annual Eat Local Week Festival. Between seeing cows milked by robots, picking their own carrots and cuddling a lamb while learning about sheep’s milk cheese, the kids will have...

Kalbar carrot beer is hopping off the bar

Is this be Australia’s first healthy beer? A beer that’s been made with Kalbar carrots has the media and craft beer enthusiasts hopping with excitement. The Wabbit Saison is a collaboration between Ipswich craft brewer Wade Curtis, of Four Hearts Brewing and Kalbar...

Enter your Tractor Pull team

Lifting weights is so yesterday. If you really want to show off your strength try pulling a 12-tonne tractor. Entries are now being accepted for this year’s Kalbar and District Community Bank Tractor Pulling Competition, which will be staged during the Winter Harvest...

Eat Local Week launched at QAGOMA

Scenic Rim Eat Local Week 2015 was launched in Brisbane at QAGOMA with a spectacular showcase of the region’s producers and their produce. The launch was held on the rooftop terrace at the Gallery of Modern Art and guests were treated to a stunning array of...

Culinary Internship winners announced

The QAGOMA-Scenic Rim Eat Local Week Culinary Internship has been awarded to three of the region’s leading chefs. Eat Local Week ambassador and QAGOMA Executive Chef, Josue Lopez, announced the winners at the launch of Eat Local Week 2015 on May 20. Kate Raymont of...