Morning – Fri 19 June

The weekend begins at ground level with Forage to Feast. On Tommerup’s sixth-generation dairy farm in Kerry, feeding animals, milking Jersey cows, separating cream, churning butter, and foraging through the paddocks before the Wild Canary team transforms it all into an extraordinary slow feast created metres from the source. This is not a cooking demonstration or a farm tour in any conventional sense. It is a full day of purposeful, connected living, the kind that nurtures and feeds the soul and the belly. 

Morning – Sat 20 June

Saturday begins without agenda and all the better for it. Take the short drive to Carneys Creek and follow the trail into the rainforest, where the canopy closes overhead and the rest of the world falls quietly away. Cool air, birdsong, and the particular stillness of old growth bush in winter — the kind of morning that sharpens every sense before the day properly begins. Free, unhurried, and exactly the right way to open a Saturday built entirely around what the land around you has to offer.

Afternoon

High above the valley at Wild Mountains Environmental Education Centre, the Vegetarian Fireside Feast on Wild Mountains – SOLD OUT earns its name. A guided rainforest walk leads into a campfire cooking experience where a long vegetarian lunch is built from the region’s finest seasonal produce against sweeping Scenic Rim views that stretch further than feels possible. The sound of the fire, the smell of the bush, food that tastes of exactly where you are. An afternoon that engages every sense and asks nothing more of you than to be completely, unhurriedly present.

Night

As the night settles over the vineyard, The Overflow Estate 1895 becomes somewhere quietly extraordinary for Candlelit Dinner by The Piano. Soft piano music, five courses of regionally inspired dishes, a glass of local wine catching the candlelight, and beyond the windows, panoramic views across Lake Wyaralong disappearing into the dark. Intimate without being precious. Memorable without trying to be. The kind of dinner that feels like a slow inhale.

Morning – Sun 21 June

Sunday begins with something that asks for courage and rewards it immediately. Suited up alongside Jason from Bee All Natural for Scenic Rim Bees & Cheese at Towri Sheep Cheeses, you’ll step into the quiet, humming world of a working beehive, exploring the frames, learning the language of the colony, and harvesting honey so fresh it is still warm when it hits the board. Paired with a platter of artisan Towri sheep cheeses, the combination is one of those rare discoveries that feels obvious in retrospect. Sweet, complex, alive with flavour.

Noon

The weekend closes on a walk through an emerging native rainforest fruit orchard at Wilde Foods for the Native Rainforest Orchard Trek & Taste, 1.5 kilometres of guided discovery through regenerative land, tasting gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan-friendly native condiments along the way as the afternoon light filters through the canopy. As the sun sets over Main Range National Park, stay fireside with a refreshing mocktail and a surprise dessert — three days of deeply sensory, deeply felt experiences. The Scenic Rim is alive, and you are right in the middle of it.

Extend Your Stay*

Before you head home, there is one more reason to stay. On Wednesday, Towri Sheep Cheeses hosts The Next Generation Homegorwn Lunch one of the most quietly moving experiences of the entire Eat Local Month program. Senior students from Beaudesert State High School grow, raise, and prepare a three-course lunch using ethical, locally sourced ingredients, every dish telling the story of the land, the culture, and the community that shaped it. This is farm-to-fork in its most purposeful, most human form. Thoughtful, generous, and genuinely inspiring. The kind of lunch that reminds you exactly why slow food matters and leaves you with considerable faith in who is coming next.