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Vodka made from carrots! Yes really.
What would you say if we told you that you can now drink your daily serve of carrots in vodka? No, we are not joking! Two Scenic Rim women – both married to carrot farmers - are behind a new Carrot Vodka, distilled using fresh carrots. The women were looking for ways...
Beaudesert Gourmet Street Food Festival
FOOD trucks are huge right now and so is eating local. During Scenic Rim Eat Local Week we’re bringing the two food crazes together for the ultimate eat local food truck experience. Kat Creasey and Matt Whalley of The Design Collective Markets have organised The...
Josue Lopez returns as Scenic Rim Regional Food Ambassador
QAGOMA Executive Chef, Josue (Josh) Lopez, has been an enthusiastic supporter of Scenic Rim Eat Local week for the past three years. For Eat Local Week 2017 he returns as a Regional Food Ambassador and has crafted a Scenic Rim menu for a special Eat Local Week lunch...
Can you pull a 12-tonne tractor?
How strong are you? Test yourself against a 12-tonne tractor in the Scenic Rim Eat Local Week Tractor Pulling Competition. The Kalbar & District Community Bank returns as sponsor of this popular event, sure to be a highlight at the Winter Harvest Festival on July...
Ayton Farm, an ‘eggstraordinary’ story
Love the idea of keeping chooks but don’t know where to start? During Scenic Rim Eat Local Week you can visit Ayton Farm at Rathdowney and learn how farmers Rod and Kathy O'Connell breed and keep chooks. Ayton Farm is just one of many Scenic Rim farms you can visit...
Take a school holiday food & farming adventure
Food tastes so much better when you know where it was grown. During the June-July school holidays take a real food and farming adventure in the Scenic Rim during Eat Local Week. Take a farm to fork journey at a carrot farm, see cows being milked by robots, or learn...
Feast on Scenic Rim Eat Local Week
SCENIC Rim Eat Local Week plates up from June 24, with a delicious schedule of food and farming events. The festival of food and farming is now in its seventh year and showcases the bounty of fresh produce, wine, beer, milk and gourmet products that grow in the...
Delicious launch for Eat Local Week 2017
MORE than 190 southeast Queensland food producers, chefs and food enthusiasts attended the launch of Scenic Rim Eat Local Week. The launch at Moda Events Portside was a delicious celebration of the Scenic Rim’s farmers, produce and chefs. Scenic Rim Eat Local Week...
SCENIC RIM DISTILLED: A GUIDE FOR THIRSTY TRAVELLERS
MASTER of wine, Peter Scudamore-Smith, has declared the Scenic Rim home to some impressive and surprising wines and artisan beers in his new guide to the region’s wine, beer and coffee products. Scenic Rim Distilled, A guide for thirsty travellers was released at the...