As interest grows among consumers in sourcing their food from local producers, it is worth looking at resilience in the local food system as one of the many benefits.

The term resilience has roots in the Latin word resilio, which means to ‘jump back’1; and broadly it is defined as a return to an original state. […]

The Gippsland Food Plan is the first of its kind to be developed in response to the Australian National Food Plan.

The Gippsland region borders our Southern Harvest region. It extends from the edge of metropolitan Melbourne in the west, to the most easterly point of Victoria, and up to the NSW border.

Gippsland’s economy is predominantly […]

ACT Territories and Municipal Services Minister Shane Rattenbury aims to free up more unused public land for growing food in Canberra and plans a registration system for backyard beekeepers this year, among measures to boost food self-sufficiency in Canberra.

Mr Rattenbury, head of the ACT Greens, called a roundtable of local producers last year and on […]

Earlier this month, RDA Southern Inland and Southern Harvest hosted the Australian Capital Region premiere of Fair Food, Australia’s first feature length documentary that tells the story of our farmers, social entrepreneurs and communities pioneering new approaches to food production, marketing and distribution. About 180 people attended the premiere. It was great to see such […]

Last Wednesday more than 60 members of the regional food community attended the second Australian Capital Region Food Hub event and agreed that building a stronger regional food sector with a Southern Harvest brand would be a useful way of identifying local produce.

Hosted by Regional Development Australia (RDA) Southern Inland and Southern NSW Harvest […]

The Honourable Katrina Hodgkinson MP, Minister for Primary Industries and Small Business officially launched the Southern Harvest Association at Fine Foods Australia on Thursday, 12 September 2013. This was a milestone event for the association and demonstrated the significance of regional food to our local and regional food economies.

Read the media release by the […]

The Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Hospitality and Racing, the Hon. George Souris MP, today launched Inland NSW Tourism’s Regional NSW BBQ Challenge and associated Regional NSW Showcase Dinners and Farmers Markets at Centennial Parklands.

Commencing 31st August, 2012 in Young with the ‘Hungry for Hilltops’ Regional NSW Showcase Dinner, this will be the first of […]