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- Jill Dyson,
- Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia
- Click on the link to read Jill's latest blog post. Jill has been running FoodPath in the Southern Highlands of NSW with her partner Nick since April 2010. They have grown the business to a level where they now include a range of activities including tours, workshops and collaboration with others (cooking schools, wineries, etc). During the past 10 years Jill and Nick have got to know the local producers and continue to promote and support these local small businesses. They have organised and run many food related activities including taste education workshops and producer visits. It was after they organised a successful tour for a group of chefs from some of the best restaurants in Sydney that they realised they could turn their interest into a business - and this led to the setting up of FoodPath - Culinary Tours with a Difference. Now Jill and Nick are working closely with Southern Highlands Tourism and Wingecarribee Council to help raise the profile of their area as a food destination where everyone will benefit - tourists, local consumers and the producers themselves.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Well we are still in recovery mode!
On Wednesday this week, 9 Mar we had two things running concurrently. Fortunately Nick could be at one and I was at the other.
First we had a film crew come to shoot one of our Fruit Bottling Workshops for the program Sydney Weekender. We got a group of nine women together to make up a class at the Howards Lane tasting room out of Mittagong - a beautiful setting looking over the vineyard.
Steve Hogwood from the 1910 Bottling Company ran the workshop and Kath and Emma from a new business DeliSH kindly brought along one of their hampers to provide lunch for everyone to share.
While this was going on I was at the Visitors Information Centre in Mittagong to host the Mushroom Tunnel Tours. We had two tours which were well attended.
We travelled by bus to the entrance of the tunnel. From there the group walked the full length of the tunnel (650metres) while Noel told us about the mushrooms and about his business. It was very interesting and as always very popular.
We are hoping that Noel will let SH Tourism and FoodPath host a further 3 tours to the tunnel during the year - fingers crossed!
On Wednesday this week, 9 Mar we had two things running concurrently. Fortunately Nick could be at one and I was at the other.
First we had a film crew come to shoot one of our Fruit Bottling Workshops for the program Sydney Weekender. We got a group of nine women together to make up a class at the Howards Lane tasting room out of Mittagong - a beautiful setting looking over the vineyard.
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| Fruit preparation for bottling with Steve |
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| Mike Whitney complete with apron! |
While this was going on I was at the Visitors Information Centre in Mittagong to host the Mushroom Tunnel Tours. We had two tours which were well attended.
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| Noel explaining about his mushrooms |
We are hoping that Noel will let SH Tourism and FoodPath host a further 3 tours to the tunnel during the year - fingers crossed!
