Join Jill and Nick as they take you behind the scenes to see where your food actually comes from!

Thank you for a fabulous day! Interesting stall holders, wonderful food and great company. Thanks (Dell, Mittagong)

A note to thank you for a really enjoyable day. It was all we expected and more. We would love to come back in the Springtime, so keep us in the loop please. Very nice people around the table, such a lovely way to spend a Sunday. (Chris, Mittagong)

We have a preserving class with Steve Hogwood of the 1910 Bottling Company scheduled on Sun 4 Aug. This time it will be on Pickling and Fermenting.
This is an interesting topic and covers the history and health benefits of fermenting food.
Our venue has changed to Eling Forest Estate which is on the Hume Highway at Sutton Forest, just before the Moss Vale/Canyonleigh exit - about 1.5hrs from Sydney. Steve runs his business from Eling Forest now and this is a beautiful historic location, well worth a visit.

Date: Sun 4 Aug 2013
Time 10am - 1pm
Price: $105
Inclusions: Tea/coffee on arrival, DVD with handouts, a jar to take home and a light lunch of crusty bread, cheese and Steve's pickles.

If you are interested in pickling and would like to come to our Pickling and Fermenting workshop contact us from www.foodpath.com.au and we will email you a booking form.

We now have two dates confirmed for our truffle tours to Ted and Barbara's farm near Robertson! This is special because not many truffle farms will let you visit.

• Sat 27 July
• Sun 18 Aug

I think that today is the first time I have ever eaten truffle on the day that it was harvested! Actually I can count on one hand the number of times I have eaten truffle or even seen them - which makes today all the more special.
This afternoon we met with Ted Smith who has a trufferie near Robertson. Last year they found their first truffles and we wanted to ask if we could run some Truffle Tours this year.
Ted brought with him a small 40g truffle beautifully packaged and labelled. The pungent smell was strong and unmistakable.
After some discussion Ted agreed that we could run tours with a minimum of 10 people - as long as his supply of truffles holds up. Very exciting. They are well set up and a tour will include a welcoming cup of tea or coffee, a talk in the hay shed about growing truffles, a visit to the trufferie where we will see the truffle dog in action. We will finish with a tasty truffle treat.
I will write up the tour description and pop it on the website as soon as we have confirmed dates.
Nick from ABC Illawarra radio has already asked if he can come along - it is an unusual tour and will be popular, I'm sure.

Saw Biddy today at the Mittagong Market and she is keen to do more Jam Making Classes. She loved it and so did we!
Spoke to several people who were sorry they missed out - so, all being well, we should have our minimum numbers (group of 8) soon and can set another date.
Let us know if you would like to come?
Includes morning tea on arrival and light lunch at the end with tastings of all Biddy's wonderful products - parmesan biscuits, flourless fruit cake, duck and chick liver terrine.
Next time we will ask Biddy's French husband to come along too - because he is part of the team.
Date: To be confirmed
Venue: The Cookability Kitchen, Bowral
Time: 10am - 1pm
Price: $85

We have had two private tours during the past week.
First we had a couple who badly wanted to visit an alpaca farm - so we were able to organise that and they loved it.
On Thursday we took another couple to a cooking class and lunch at Feast@McVitty followed by a guided wine and cheese tasting at Tertini Wines - then we led the way to their accommodation at Pines Pastoral, near Moss Vale.
Very personalised and I enjoyed it. Definitely a new product for FoodPath to add to our growing repertoire.
Privately hosted tours are good for people with visitors from out of the area who want to learn about the food and wine of the Southern Highlands.

Had a call at midday today asking if we could take a conference group on a tour this afternoon. Their scheduled activity was cancelled at short notice and they were in a spot. We like to personalise tours for private groups and soon ascertained that this group wanted to visit wineries - so we made a few phone calls and were quickly able to put together a nice itinerary visiting Centennial Winery, Bendooley Estate and Tertini.
As you know we normally run food tours - but we are flexible and this was fun.

Groups are our main focus these days so don't forget if you have a bunch of friends, family or work mates we can put something together for you - even at short notice, just give us a call - m: 0419 617 021 or info@foodpath.com.au

In earl April I was asked by Destination NSW to escort Christina Pfeiffer for a day in the Southern Highlands and to introduce her to some of the interesting people behind out local food. She was writing an article for the Wellbeing magazine - which is expected to be in the June edition.
Christina also videos her travels and with help from her husband she produces short "webisodes" which she loads onto her online channel TRAVELTHERENEXT TV (www.traveltherenext.tv).
In the Highlands she spent about 3 days and she is now launching a series of webisodes weekly on Friday for the next 8 weeks. The first one was released on Fri 31 May and is about FoodPath and our day together - click on the link http://youtu.be/QbHEYSkcr1I
We are so grateful for exposure like this which is very helpful to businesses like ours!