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.

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!

Sapling Yard – Wine Tasting

When: Saturday 18th of July, 03:30pm

Where: Winter Festival, Dairy Road at Adapt Homes Tiny House

Costs: $30 adults

COCKTAIL CLASS with Ambrosia Distillery

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.

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

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

Cocktail Cabaret – Love & Forgetting. Tales from a Young Mixer

“A love letter to theatre, to film – a love letter to life! A brave embrace of all the things we need right now.”
Pull up a barstool and savour a finely crafted cocktail of story, classic jazz and intoxicating hospitality, raising a glass to the people, places and poets that shape us. Praised for its wit, warmth and irresistible charm, these Tales from a Young Mixer are equal parts hilarious, mesmerising and disarming – transporting audiences from the banks of the Murrumbidgee to the heights of Manhattan.
Drawing on the intimate style and traditions of the cocktail bar and cabaret, LOVE & FORGETTING blurs the line between patron and performer, service and stage, memory and make-believe – a world where theatre meets hospitality, and the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Bring you strongest shaking arms to the Ambrosia Cocktail Class – learn how to make a collection of our signature cocktails. The class includes dips, tasting board, tasting three cocktails and then making and drinking their favourite.
Ambrosia Distillery is a small batch distillery specialising in an eclectic and unique range of gin and flavoured vodkas. The success of the distillery has led to us opening Ambrosia Lounge – a speakeasy cocktail bar located in the heart of Dairy Road in Fyshwick. Ambrosia Lounge is a fantastic place to enjoy delicious cocktails, mouth watering food, and excellent service.

Supper Club July edition with Elvesgate – Australia’s only certified biodynamic truffle farm. 

Elvesgate is Australia’s only certified biodynamic truffle farm, and it is very much a labour of love.
Just outside Braidwood, beneath 300 oak trees, Gael and her family have spent more than a decade nurturing a forest into a truffle paddock. It began as a natural extension of years spent gardening organically through Sydney veggie patches, and learning the rhythms of biodynamics. What started in 2011 as the biggest veggie patch yet has grown into something remarkable, a living, breathing ecosystem where every part of the process is cared for by the family themselves.

There are no shortcuts at Elvesgate. No herbicides, no rushing, just oak trees, living soil, biodynamic preparations and time. Chicory, clover, lucerne and oats, hand weeding and an annual tree paste all reflect a simple belief, that the best truffle can only come from soil that is truly alive. The journey has not always been easy. Green manure crops so thick that baby trees disappeared into them, wombats digging mysterious holes, bushfires edging close and unpredictable swings of climate have all tested the farm. Yet the oak forest keeps growing, and beneath the surface a rich and sparkling microcosm continues its quiet, extraordinary work.
As Gael says: “We farm to the rhythm of the land, biodynamic methods, patient cultivation, no herbicides, and a belief that the best truffle is one grown in soil that is truly alive.”

We are delighted to welcome Gael and her husband Steve as our special guest for this Southern Harvest Supper Club, an evening to hear her story, taste her produce and sit down together around a shared table.

DATE: Friday 24 July 2026
TIME: 06:30

LOCATION: Scrumpers Kitchen
Two-course shared menu created from the very best produce available on the day.  The menu will remain a surprise until it’s revealed at the dinner table.
PARKING: Free on street parking is available.
COST: $60 per person. Drinks separate.
With every booking, $5 will go directly to the Southern Harvest Association

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 children* (5-15 years)

*children need to be accompanied by a parent or a guardian at all times.

Monkey Business – Family Aerial Acrobartics Fun

Come in from the cold and join us for a playful aerial adventure the whole family can enjoy. Climb, swing, hang, laugh and monkey around together as you explore aerial silks in a safe, beginner-friendly session. A perfect way to warm up, get moving and create fun winter festival memories.

When: Saturday 18.July 11:30a – 12:30p

Where: Aerial Sports, Building 2,G.05, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick

Costs: Adults: $35, Kids: $25 (6 – 17), Family: 2 Adults, 2 Kids: $100

What to Wear: Close fitting clothes you can move comfortably in. Yoga clothing & most active wear will suit. Layers, it is cold in the studio, but you will warm up as you go.

Min participants: 4/ Max participants: 18

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 children * (5-15 years)
*children need to be accompanied by a parent or a guardian at all times.

Winter Warmer – Sip, move & relax (Cacao Ceremony, Gentle Movement, Sound Bath)

Begin with a warming cup of ceremonial cacao before easing into gentle, mindful movement to awaken the body, quiet the mind and prepare for deep relaxation. Then, settle into a soothing sound journey and let the calming vibrations help release tension, restore balance and create a profound sense of peace. Inspired by the quiet wisdom of winter, this nourishing experience invites you to slow down, reflect and set gentle intentions for the season ahead. Leave feeling grounded, refreshed and ready to embrace the months ahead with renewed clarity and calm.

When: Sunday 19 July 9:00am – 10:30am
Where: Aerial Sports, Building 2,G.05, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick
Costs: Adults: $50

What to bring:
– clothes you can move comfortably in.
– blanket & layers to make yourself cozy (it will get cold)
– warm socks/slippers, you will be taking your shoes off
– eye pillow or eye cover
– pillow or bolster (for added support)
– water bottle
– anything else you need

Min participants: 4 Max participants: 16

Beat the Winter Chill – Come & Try Aerial Acrobatics Session for Adults

Shake off the cold with a playful introduction to aerial movement. Stretch, swing and discover a fun new way to move your body.

When: Saturday: 12:30p – 1:30p
Where: Aerial Sports, Building 2,G.05, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick
Costs: Adults: $35
What to Wear: Close fitting clothes you can move comfortably in. Yoga clothing & most active wear will suit. Layers, it is cold in the studio, but you will warm up as you go.

Min participants: 4/ Max participants: 18

Happy Hoop Workshop – Hula Hoop Fun for Everyone

Step into the circle and discover just how much fun a hula hoop can be! Learn to spin, twirl and weave the hoop around your body as you explore playful tricks, movement and plenty of laughter. Whether you’re picking up a hoop for the first time or rediscovering a childhood favourite, this upbeat workshop will have you smiling, moving and warming up from the inside out. Suitable for all ages and abilities. No experience needed.

When: Saturday: 1:30p – 2:30p
Where: Aerial Sports, Building 2,G.05, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick
Costs: Adults: $25, Kids $20
What to Wear: Close fitting clothes you can move comfortably in. Yoga clothing & most active wear will suit. Layers, it is cold in the studio, but you will warm up as you go.

Min participants: 4 / Max participants: 18