A great time to visit and help celebrate the best growers, provedores, chefs, restaurateurs and vignerons of the Daylesford Macedon Ranges region. Enjoy a showcase of unique product from Daylesford Macedon Produce. Taste your way around the region during Harvest Week.
International guest Joel Salatin – a self confessed larrikin farmer and sustainable food campaigner visiting from the US, will be sharing his ideas and thoughts on food in 2010.
Daylesford Macedon Produce Harvest Festival is a celebration of harvest – a practice dating back to a time when the success of
local crops dictated the lives of people and whole communities.
Celebrate with us.
Taste your way around the region with twenty regional tasting
plates and their matched local tipples. Visit farm gates and cellar doors for Harvest ‘specials’ or shop with the locals at farmer’s markets. Join us at forums on sustainable agriculture, special winemaker and chef’s dinners and classes in everything from composting, preserving to bread making.
As you travel across this beautiful region, keep a look out for our Daylesford Macedon Produce farm gate sign.There you’ll meet the passionate locals who care about issues of sustainability and are committed to growing, producing and serving excellent local food and wine.
Harvest Festival Wrap Up!
During the Harvest Week Festival there were a few competitions bubbling behind the scenes and can now finally reveal the following results - Thank you to all of the participants that entered for a job well done and CONGRATULATIONS to our winners.
Best regional tasting plate matched with a local wine - supported by Kitchen Aid.
Winner
Mercato @ Daylesford
Highly Commened
Perfect Drop Food and Wine Lounge
The Cosmopolitan Hotel
The Best value regional tasting plate matched with a local wine- supported by Kitchen Aid
Winner
The Village Larder
Highly Commended
Rowanston on the Track
Captains Creek Organic Wines
Harvest Week Festival Window Display- supported by DMP
1st - Picnics of Daylesford
2nd - Cliffys Emporium
3rd - Woodend Bakery & Cafe
The little cooks harvest competition (12yrs old and under) supported by Kitchen Aid
The Village Larder
