ALL WEEKEND Harvest Festival window dress displays at the shops throughout the village
Friday 16th March – Eating Out
12NOON-5PM The Big Green Cup Café: offering a Grazing Plate every day of the Festival, commencing 12pm Friday, which includes fresh and local meats cheese fruit and veg accompanied with local breads. Cost is $25 per head, with bookings preferred (to guarantee a seat!).
5.30-8.30PM Local food and beverages at The Royal Hotel Bistro
6-9PM Local food and beverages at The George Bar & Dining
6-9PM Local dishes and wines at Fat Baby Thai
7-9:30PM Bungendore Harvest Festival ‘Trust the Chef’ Dinner at Le Tres Bon (bookings essential)
Saturday 17th March – All the ingredients you need
Harvest Way
10AM-4PM Bungendore Harvest Festival Market Stalls at the Festival Way in Ellendon Street
10AM-4PM Horse and Carriage Rides $10 leaving from Cnr Ellendon and Gibraltar Streets at the Horse Stop
10AM-4PM Beekeeping Q & A at the Bees R Us Market Stall
11AM Guess the Ferment at the Sapling Yard Market Stall
12NOON Talk: Kerenza Brown: infusing Olive Oil with herbs at Flat Out Produce Market Stall
12NOON Grape stomping at the Sapling Yard Market Stall
1.30PM Talk: Scott Williams of Bees R Us: The Art of Bee Keepingat the Bees R Us Market Stall
Festival Green
10AM Launch of the Bungendorables on the Festival Green – come on down and visit!
10:30AM Dachshund Fashion Parade on the Festival Green – Donations to the Australian Dachshund Rescue – register here
11:30AM Music by POLK on the Festival Stage
12:30PM Music by Danny V – acoustic on the Festival Stage
1:00PM Music by the Broken Arrows on the Festival Stage
1.45PM Bungendore Community Choir outside PRDnationwide Bungendore
2:00PM Music by Mog acoustic on the Festival Stage
3-4PM Music – Dark Horse Band on the Festival Stage
Harvest Tent
11AM Evan Dunstone of WoodDust talking on the International Woodworking Scene as a Hobby. Music: Owen Elliot: classical guitar demonstration on a Smallman Guitar.
11.30AM-12NOON Talk: Jennie Curtis: Out of the City – Adventures in Small Farming
2-2.30PM Cooking demonstration: Chris Curtis of Food for Friends: what to do with tomatoes
2:30-3PM Growing Garlic Cultivars from Silverskin, Creole and Artichoke groups in the ACT and Southern Tablelands – Bronwyn Richards – Harvest Tent
3PM Cooking Demonstration with Chef Christophe Gregoire of Le Tres Bon at the Harvest Tent
Harvest Kids
10AM-4PM Kids activities on the Festival Green at Harvest kids – Loads of fun for the little ones including prizes
At Harvest Kids:
Stealing eggs game
Potato race
Egg and spoon race
Kids Sheep dog trials-In pairs
Shopping bag race
Apple spiral eating off string.
Harvest Rest
10AM-4PM Face Painting at the Harvest Rest
Also at the Harvest Rest: Potato stamping, Apple stamping.
In the Village
IGA First Birthday Celebrations in Malbon Street
9AM-3PM Phil’s Emporium Op Shop 1st Birthday Celebrations, Butmaroo St – jumping castle, balloons, barista coffee,birthday cake and great bargains
9AM-5PM Timber Burl Gems Display at Bungendore Woodworks
10AM-4PM The Big Green Cup Café: offering a Grazing Plate, which includes fresh and local meats cheese fruit and veg accompanied with local breads. Cost is $25 per head, with bookings preferred (to guarantee a seat!).
10:30-2PM Cooking Class Lunch at Le Tres Bon with local produce
11AM-3PM Tasting Plate at the Big Green Cup Cafe, Village Square
11AM-4PM The Gathering Cafe will be a hub of activities. Join two locals to hear about their experiences with permaculture and try the end results with skin care products for you to try or purchase. Enjoy fantastic coffee and fresh healthy food at the Gathering Cafe which sources local produce such as Long Paddock eggs, Lonsdale St Roasters coffee, Wynella meat, Little Big Dairy Co: a single source milk fresh produce straight from the veggie patch or try the fabulous in-house cooked french apple tart or maybe a slice of strawberry shortcake. Look for the scarecrows out the front of 10 Gibraltar St and join in crafty harvest painting for the children or maybe have a game of two of Pumpkin and Squash Noughts and Crosses: its all free.
12NOON-2PM Local food and beverages at The Royal Hotel Bistro
12-3PM Local dishes and wines at Fat Baby Thai
12-3PM Local Food and Beverages at The George Bar & Dining
5.30-8.30PM Local food and beverages at The Royal Hotel Bistro
6-9PM Local food and beverages at The George Bar & Dining
6-9PM Local dishes and wines at Fat Baby Thai
Further Afield
10AM-4PM Affleck Vineyard Art Show plus free wine tasting and cheese, biscuit and wine plates.
10AM-6PM Provisions Deli and Grocery Braidwood, for all your local produce needs 56 Wallace Street, Braidwood
11AM-4PM Lark Hill Biodynamic Vineyard – Cellar Door Open
12-3PM Lunch at Lark Hill Biodynamic Winery
Sunday 18th March – Immerse yourself
Farm Tours and Wineries
10AM-4PM Affleck Vineyard Art Show plus free wine tasting and cheese, biscuit and wine plates $10
10-11AM Farm tour (bookings essential $20pp) at Jerrabatt Gully Organics
10-11AM Farm tour (bookings essential $20/pp) at Caroola Farm
11AM-4PM Lark Hill Biodynamic Vineyard – Cellar Door Open
11AM-5PM Local food and wine at Contentious Character
11AM-5PM The Old Stone House Open Gardens, Devonshire tea and free wine tastings – please book for Devonshire Tea
12-3PM Lunch at Lark Hill Biodynamic Winery
12NOON-2PM Local food and beverages at The Royal Hotel Bistro
12-3PM Local dishes and wines at Fat Baby Thai
12-3PM Local Food and Beverages at The George Bar & Dining
2-3PM Jerrabatt Gully Organics farm tour (bookings essential $20/pp – children free) at Jerrabatt Gully Organics
2-3PM Caroola Farm tour (bookings essential $20/pp – children free) at Caroola Farm
2.15-4.30PM Aminya Organic Olive Grove Farm Tour (bookings essential $15/pp – children free) in association with Flat Out Produce
3-4PM Mamma Rita’s Farm tour (bookings essential $20/pp – children free) at Mamma Rita’s Farm
In the Village
9AM-2PM the market@bungendore, Bungendore Memorial Hall
9AM-5PM Timber Burl Gems Display at Bungendore Woodworks
9:30AM Bungendore Anglican Church Harvest Thanksgiving Service – open air, kid’s activity for the morning will be scarecrow construction
10AM-4PM The Big Green Cup Café: offering a Grazing Plate, which includes fresh and local meats cheese fruit and veg accompanied with local breads. Cost is $25 per head, with bookings preferred (to guarantee a seat!).
11AM-4PM The Gathering Cafe and Gib St Courtyard Art Connection. Pumpkin and Squash Noughts and Crosses outside 10 Gibraltar Street, plus Childrens Craft Activities.
11AM-5PM The Old Stone House Open Gardens, Devonshire tea and free wine tastings – please book for Devonshire Tea
12NOON-2PM Local food and beverages at The Royal Hotel Bistro
12-3PM Local dishes and wines at Fat Baby Thai
12-3PM Local Food and Beverages at The George Bar & Dining
5.30-8.30PM Local food and beverages at The Royal Hotel Bistro
6-9PM Local dishes and wines at Fat Baby Thai
6-9PM Local Food and Beverages at The George Bar & Dining
Further Afield
9.30AM-3.30PM Raising Animals Organically, Wynlen House Learning Centre $175 bookings essential
10AM-6PM Provisions Deli and Grocery Braidwood, for all your local produce needs 56 Wallace Street, Braidwood