Daylesford Farmers Market (9:00AM - 1:00PM)


Contact Info : Daylesford Primary School Vincent Street Daylesford p| 0421 458 891 Url: http://www.rfm.net.au

DMP Harvest Week Festival 2012

Daylesford Macedon Produce presents Harvest Week Festival 2012

Friday 27th April through to Sunday 6th May 2012

Varyiing venues throughout Daylesford Macedon Ranges

 

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. 

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 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.

Download the full festival program here

Contact Info : Simone p| 0421 458 891 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.dmproduce.com.au

Meeting With Mushrooms, Fungi Workshop And Feast (10:30AM - 4:30PM)
FUNGI ECOLOGY WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS The Fungal Ecology Workshop Series is running again in autumn 2012. There will be two different workshops, an introductory workshop and one that is a little more advanced. The fungi, An Introduction to a Curious Kingdom workshop will introduce participants to the diversity and curiosities of the fungi kingdom. This workshop includes an illustrated seminar on the major fungal groups, identification, ecology, natural and cultural history of fungi, and an exciting foray into local forests to search for species of interest. Many fungal specimens from the local area will be displayed, discussed and examined during the workshop. The second, workshop The Bizarre and the beautiful, A Deeper Exploration of a Curious Kingdom, will take participants deeper into the fungi kingdom with a closer look at the major characteristics used to identify fungi in the field. We will also discuss some of the evolutionary peculiarities that have resulted in fungi being such a strange and intriguing group. This workshop includes an illustrated seminar, an interactive specimen identification session and a foray into local forests. Participants are encouraged to bring along specimens for the identification session. It is not necessary to have done the introductory workshop to do the more advanced one, but ideally you'd be familiar with the main features of a fungi fruit body that are used in field identification. Workshops will run from 10.30 until 16.30. Field forays will go ahead regardless of weather, so be sure to bring wet weather gear if necessary. If you have a magnifier, small compact mirror or fungi field guide bring those too, otherwise there will be plenty available. Morning tea will be provided. You may like to bring along your lunch as the local cafes are pretty busy on weekends and we just take a short lunch break. Workshops cost $70. For those interested in the culinary aspects of fungi, a third workshop, Meeting with Mushrooms, Fungi Workshop and Feast introduces participants to the diversity and curiosities of the fungi kingdom with a focus on edible species. It includes an interactive and illustrated seminar exploring the natural and cultural history of the major fungal groups, presenting both Australian and European perspectives on fungi as food. The seminar will be followed by a hands-on identification session where participants will learn how to identify fungi. Participants are encouraged to bring along fungal specimens for this session. A mushroom-inspired lunch will then be prepared and presented by chef, Michael de Jong. After lunch we will take a leisurely stroll around the winery and nearby bushland in search of fungi. Workshop and lunch cost $120

Contact Info : Ellender Estate 260 Greengully Road Glenlyon p| 5348 7785 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.ellenderwines.com.au

Camembert Making Workshop (9:30AM - 4:30PM)

Goldfields Farmhouse Cheese present a hands on Camembert Making Workshop. The class includes cheese making materials, morning tea and a two course lunch.

$150 per person

Bookings are essential and places are limited - call Nardia on 0408 393 792

Contact Info : Gplace Cnr Grant & English Streets Ballarat Url: http://www.goldfieldsfarmhouse.com.au

Lancefield Farmers Market (9:00AM - 1:00PM)


Contact Info : Centre Plantation High Street Lancefield Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Winter Perennnial Maintenance @ Garden Of St Erth (11:00AM - 11:59PM)


Contact Info : Garden of St Erth Simmons Reef Road Blackwood P| 5368 6514 Url: http://www.diggers.com.au