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 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 communities, special winemakerand 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.

  BREAKING NEWS

Regional Tasting Plate Competition

Winners Announced!

Regional Tasting Plate matched with Local Wine

Perfect Drop Food & Wine Bar - Daylesford

Best Wow Factor

The Argus Dining Room - Hepburn Springs

Best Seasonal Representation & Best Matched Wine

Lake House - Daylesford

Individual Component Gold Star Award

The Village Larder - Woodend

A huge thank you to our esteemed judging panel

Janne Aplegren - editor Age Good Food Guide

John Lethlean - restaurant reviewer and food writer, The Australian

Dani Valent - restaurant reviewer The Age, food writer, author

Apology Michael Harden

A big thank you to our generous sponsors KitchenAid and Profiline

to read more about the results harvest_week_tasting_plate_judging_2012

 Congratulations to all our winners and thanks to all of our entrants for an outstanding array of dishes.

Harvest Week Festival Junior Chef of the Year - Winners Results!

Junior Chef of the Year - Jessica Vandenberg

award winning potato & cauliflower pie

Innovative - Lola Jackson

 award winning spiced potato & rhubarb pudding with cream

Highly Commended - Kirra Vandenberg

award winning gnocchi & goats cheese

Highly Commended - George Augh Minchinton Kimpton

award winning potato salad

Congratulations to our winners  for their fantastic dishes, each receiving a gift bag of KitchenAid utensils. Each of our entrants this year received a kiddie kutter safe knife.

DMP would like to thank our generous sponsors KitchenAid and Kiddie Kutters for their support and prizes for our Harvest Week Junior Chef of the Year 2012.

A warm thank you to our judges - Jo Richardson, KitchenAid and Gary Thomas, Spade to Blade. Thanks also to the Daylesford Primary School for the use of their spectacular kitchen.

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Our generous sponsors of this year's DMP Harvest Week Festival 2012 -KitchenAid, Tourism Victoria, Hepburn Shire Council, Kiddie Kutters