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Eat Local Week events booking fast
Many of this year’s Eat Local Week events are booking up fast. Two exclusive long table lunches, produced by Brisbane chefs Javier Codina and Cameron Matthews, have sold out. Bookings are nearing capacity for the Kalfresh Carrot Field Day and the inaugural Scenic...
Bite into this holiday fun
Put the gadgets away, pull on your gumboots and give your kids a food and farming experience they won’t forget. Scenic Rim Eat Local Week returns for the first week of the Queensland school holidays, from June 25 to July 3, and is a chance to show your children where...
Book celebrates local farmers
Scenic Rim farmers are the heroes of a new book by leading QLD chef Brenda Fawdon and writer Christine Sharp. Brenda and Christine live on Tamborine Mountain in the Scenic Rim and are passionate consumers and supporters of local produce. The coffee table book, EAT...
Feast on the Scenic Rim
Scenic Rim Eat Local Week 2016 plates up from June 25, with a delicious schedule of food and farming events. The festival of food and farming is now in its sixth year and showcases the bounty of fresh produce, wine, beer, milk and gourmet products that grow in the...
Scenic Rim crayfish farmer can’t eat his produce
Rob Hutchings is a well-known Scenic Rim crayfish farmer. He's been farming the native Australian species on a farm at Tarome since the 1980s. But you won't find Rob eating his produce ... he's allergic. He recently told 612ABC how years of handling crayfish led to...
Alison Alexander talks Scenic Rim onions
October marks the start of the Scenic Rim's onion season, It's a relatively short season which runs through until late December, early January. The region has a number of onion producers, who grow brown and red onions, as well as the smaller white spring onions. You...
Winter Harvest Festival pulls record crowd
WHAT a crowd! The 2015 Winter Harvest Festival attracted a record crowd of more than 6000 people, was a highlight of another successful Scenic Rim Eat Local Week. Visitors were queuing outside the Winter Harvest Festival venue by 9am Saturday morning, keen to be among...
Winter Harvest Festival Recipes
If you loved what you saw at the Winter Harvest Festival, now it's time to recreate these amazing dishes at home, using your bounty of Scenic Rim produce. Chefs Josue Lopez, Brenda Fawdon, Alison Alexander, Caroline Jones, Sam Savery, Terri Taylor and Kate Raymont led...
Harvest Festival will satisfy your tastebuds
You won’t leave the Winter Harvest Festival hungry. That’s a promise. This year Eat Local Week’s signature event features a virtual smorgasbord of hot and cold food and a packed menu of cooking demonstrations and producer talks. The Winter Harvest Festival, being held...