Activity Program 17 – 19 July 2026
The weekend is there to get your hands dirty, indulge in local food and engage deeply with local producers.
We are thrilled to bring you a packed program of hands-on experiences, flavour-filled adventures and creative workshops across the Canberra region and surroundings this winter.
Food, Farm and Foraging: Join us for a Long Lunch and Farm Tour at Millpost Permaculture, a beautiful property just outside of Bungendore, where you will discover how permaculture principles come to life on a working farm. On Saturday and Sunday, head out to Elvesgate, Australia’s only certified biodynamic truffle farm, for an unforgettable truffle hunt followed by a decadent truffle feast.
Creative Workshops: Get hands-on with nature in a Basket Weaving Workshop and a Bracelet Weaving Workshop, both led by Kate from Wirimbirra and Kabu. For something a little more literary, join our Japanese Stab-Book-Binding Workshop paired with a Gin Tasting hosted by the team at Everyday Legacy Craft Distillery – a perfect blend of craft and spirit.
Urban Exploration: Take a guided Urban Garden Tour including Morning Coffee at Café Stepping Stone in Dickson, and discover how community gardens are transforming city living in Canberra.
Sip and Celebrate: Raise a glass at a Cocktail Masterclass with Ambrosia Distillery, where you will learn the art of the perfect pour. And Friday, Saturday and Sunday emerge yourself in “Love & Forgetting – Tales from a Young Mixer”, a cocktail Cabaret at the Ambrosia Lounge.
We will continue to add workshops and events as they are confirmed — check back in for more details soon!
Millpost Permaculture Long Lunch & Farm Tour
Join David Watson for a guided tour of Millpost Farm, one of the longest continually worked broad-scale permaculture properties, established in 1979.
Visitors will explore the productive vegetable gardens and diverse plantings surrounding the farm’s heritage-listed homestead dating from the 1870s, while learning how decades of permaculture design have shaped the landscape.
The tour includes a visit to the plant nursery, worm farms, compost toilets and a glasshouse built with a cob wall for thermal mass, showcasing practical and innovative approaches to sustainable living.
To provide visitors with a broader view of the farm, there will be a short walk ( 1 kilometre) to look more closely at the extensive tree planting that has transformed the property, incluDINg large stands of oaks, poplars and other deciduous trees, along with native shelter belts and wildlife corridors established through tube-stock planting, direct seeding and natural regeneration where stock have been excluded.
Millpost Farm focuses on building landscape resilience, sustainable productivity and improved water retention in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss. The farm’s main enterprise is the production of superfine merino wool, alongside milking cows and free-range chooks.
Tickets will include a hot lunch which will showcase Millpost mutton, prepared by Cassandra Simakoff-Ellims of Cork Street Cafe in Gundaroo.
(Vegetarians will be catered for)
Sunday 19 July | 10:00am – 3:30pm
What to wear: Please dress warmly and wear paddock-strength shoes or gumboots.
Lunch Location: Weather permitting, lunch will be served in the courtyard. In the event of poor weather it will be in the shearing shed – which is undercover but not heated.
Families with children: We warmly welcome families! However, please be aware that the property is not suitable for prams.
Member $70
Non-Member $75
Children under 12 $40
Forage & Feast – Australia’s Only Certified Biodynamic Truffle Farm ELVESGATE
Join in for a true foraging adventure on Elvesgate certified organic and biodynamic truffle farm. Explore our paddock, filled with wombat holes, wild grasses, winter flowers and natural biodiversity, as the truffle labrador Billy leads the way on a weekly hunt through the winter season.
The hunt ends at the fire pit, where the table is laid for a rich winter feast. Enjoy the truffle classics the family has grown to love, crafted around organic produce straight from the veggie patch. As a vegetarian farmhouse, the feast is too — a beautiful, wholesome celebration of the season.
Where: Elvesgate, Harrolds Cross
When: Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 July, 11:00am
Price from $205 per person plus booking fee
Basket Weaving Workshop with Wirimbirra &Kabu
Wirimbirra & Kabu is an indigenous-owned small business founded by Kate Buerckner. Kate has a diploma in the Visual Arts and is a practicing visual artist working across various mediums including oil painting, water colours, some sculpting works and fibre’s. Kate quite often combines 2 or more of those techniques into her works as well as singular pursuits. Kate also loves creating unique fibre art pieces inclusive of jewellery items, baskets & creatures.
Come see what magic you create!
Starter coil pack included.
When: Sunday 19th of July, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Where: Mura Lanyon Centre at Tuggeranong
Costs: $60 adults, $ 40 kids
Bracelet Weaving Workshop with Wirimbirra &Kabu
Wirimbirra & Kabu is an indigenous-owned small business founded by Kate Buerckner. Kate has a diploma in the Visual Arts and is a practicing visual artist working across various mediums including oil painting, water colours, some sculpting works and fibre’s. Kate quite often combines 2 or more of those techniques into her works as well as singular pursuits. Kate also loves creating unique fibre art pieces inclusive of jewellery items, baskets & creatures.
Come see what magic you create!
Starter coil pack included.
When: Sunday 19th of July, 10:30am – 11:30am
Where: Mura Lanyon Centre at Tuggeranong
Costs: $30 adults, $ 25 kids
The WISE garden is a work integrated social enterprise run by Cafe Stepping Stone adjacent to the cafe Dickson.
Fiona Buining is the urban farm manger who is training migrant and refugee women to grow vegetables for the cafe.
Fiona will take participants on a tour of the urban farm talking about the urban farm training program and the method they are using to grow vegetables for the cafe. The tour will continue with a full morning tea (Cakes, dips, veg and fruit platter plus tea and coffee ) at the cafe where there will be plenty of time for questions and chatting.
Workshop Details:
DATE: Sunday 19 July 2026
TIME: 10am
LOCATION: 8 Hawdon Place Dickson
PARKING: Free on street parking is available.
Whats Included:
Urban Farm Tour
Morning tea at Cafe Stepping Stone
COST: $40 single ticket, $ 15 for kids under 12