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SBS Food Journey

Posted on Mar 9, 2011 by merran in General

Six producers from the Sun Country on the Murray Food-Wine-Produce group headed to Melbourne at the beginning of March for the SBS Food Journey. This was a new event created in conjunction with the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, and was held on March 4-6 2011.

The producers involved were Sue from Daisy Cow Soaps, Anna from Monichino Wines, Mariea and Trinity from Aintree Almonds & Apiary, Bev from Tranquil Hills, Ros and Damien from Rich Glen Olives and Don and Ada from Boosey Creek Cheese. Sun Country on the Murray was there handing out Farm Gate Trail brochures, Visitor Guides and generally enticing everyone to visit our beautiful region.

As we chose to design our own stand we had a car full of hessian, fruit and vegetables, gum leaves, banners and olive branches. Our empty space was soon transformed with wine barrels, wheelbarrows, hessian, milk churns and fruit and vegetables. As you can see, the end product looked fantastic, and was so different to anything else at the show. It was great to see all our hard work recognised when we received the award for best small exhibit. We even got a trophy!

The weekend saw 13,600 people through the gates. It was a weekend full of amazing food and wine.

There was a lot of interest in our produce, especially from some of the SBS Personalities. We had a visit from Costa (from Costa's Garden Odyssey), which was great. We sent him off with some wine and cheese, which he loved. He had to come back to get some more.

It was a great experience for such a new group, and was fantastic that they could attend as a collective group. The support from Sun Country on the Murray and the Moira Shire Council was fantastic. To see more photos of the weekend go to http://on.fb.me/gXTXzT