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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.
Showing posts with label school holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school holidays. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
We have three Family Farm Tours scheduled for the next school holidays so tell your friends and come and join us. Always fun these are a great thing to do with your children or grandchildren.
These tours appeal to locals, visitors and grandparents who have children staying during the school holidays.
We are visiting two farms on different days - both are fun and quite close to Bowral. Alan and Colin always run an interesting tour set up so the kids have lots of fun.
Check our website "Activities" page and contact us if you have any questions.
Looking forward to having you along.
Dates: Tues 24 Sept, Sat 28 Sept and Sun 6 Oct (on the long weekend).
Time: 10.30 - 12.
Price: $35 per adult, $15 per child 3 - 12yrs of age. Children under 3yrs FREE.
Directions provided on booking.
Children must be supervised by an accompanying adult.
Minimum numbers apply.
To book contact us - w: foodpath.com.au, e: info@foodpath.com.au, m: 0419 617 021
These tours appeal to locals, visitors and grandparents who have children staying during the school holidays.
We are visiting two farms on different days - both are fun and quite close to Bowral. Alan and Colin always run an interesting tour set up so the kids have lots of fun.
Check our website "Activities" page and contact us if you have any questions.
Looking forward to having you along.
Dates: Tues 24 Sept, Sat 28 Sept and Sun 6 Oct (on the long weekend).
Time: 10.30 - 12.
Price: $35 per adult, $15 per child 3 - 12yrs of age. Children under 3yrs FREE.
Directions provided on booking.
Children must be supervised by an accompanying adult.
Minimum numbers apply.
To book contact us - w: foodpath.com.au, e: info@foodpath.com.au, m: 0419 617 021
Monday, September 17, 2012
Come with us to visit a family friendly farm in the Southern
Highlands. Show your children where their food comes from
and have fun at the same time.
Harvey and Lindy will be our hosts and have kindly offered to
share their farmyard friends with us for the afternoon.
• Feed the alpacas – James and Kerry
• Pat Dave the miniature horse
• Meet Gino the retired race horse (there is a life after racing)
• Play in the “Bradman enclosure” (playground)
• Fish for yabbies
• Feed the trout
• Collect the eggs
• Feed the chooks
• Draw a face on an egg to take home
• See the baby goslings
• Learn about honey, taste some and take a jar home.
Date: Sat 29 Sept 2012
Venue: Meet at Lake Alexander, Queen St, Mittagong
Time: 12 -3pm
12 noon meet for optional picnic at the lake.
12.45pm leave for tour – follow us in your car
Price: Child (3-15yrs) $12. Adults $18. Children under 3 free.
BYO picnic or pre-order with FoodPath (extra cost).
NB. Children to be supervised by their accompanying adults at all times.
Contact us from the website for bookings or more information or ring Jill on
0419 617 021. Join the mailing list for updates.
(Minimum numbers apply)
Thursday, September 29, 2011
We say we will do the Family Farm Tours rain, hail or shine but it was very soggy underfoot yesterday so we have changed our minds. Not very pleasant so we have decided to cancel the tour scheduled for Sun 2 Oct. We have to give notice a few days prior.
Other options for you to consider in wet weather are:
- 10 pin bowling (Mittagong)
- Neeny's Playhouse (Mittagong)
- A range of movies at our wonderful Empire Cinema (Bowral) and
- Bunnings are offering a free DIY Workshop for 5yr + age group.
There is one FoodPath Family Tour to go these holidays and that is on Wed 5 Oct if you are interested? We will be visiting the free range chook farm in the morning, a dairy in the afternoon with a picnic lunch in between.
Cross your fingers conditions improve by then. Please contact us if you want to come because we have to have a minimum number.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
How cute is the little book of letters that was launched last night in Bowral.
The letters were written by a chook - Isobel, the CEO of the hen house at Berrima Ridge a free range egg farm outside Berrima.
Anne is Grandma and she helps with the stories which appear in every dozen eggs that are sold. Rather like a journal - giving the reader an insight into life on the farm. What a great idea! I love the social commentary, the wise words and the humour that creep in from time to time - and what a good way to educate the public about life on a farm.
We are having another Family Farm Day in the Spring school holidays and will be visiting Berrima Ridge. Bring your family along and share the fun! This time we will have a professional photographer with us. You may like to take advantage of the opportunity. If so I will give you her contact details and you can speak directly to her. Extra cost for photos of course.
The letters were written by a chook - Isobel, the CEO of the hen house at Berrima Ridge a free range egg farm outside Berrima.
There was definitely an "egg" theme with Tony Capps serving delicious egg based canapés and platter with a nest of Patrice Cook's eggs. We have three of Patrice's chooks in our display at SH Tourism this month - in the entrance atrium if you get a chance to look.
We are having another Family Farm Day in the Spring school holidays and will be visiting Berrima Ridge. Bring your family along and share the fun! This time we will have a professional photographer with us. You may like to take advantage of the opportunity. If so I will give you her contact details and you can speak directly to her. Extra cost for photos of course.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Well our second Family Farm Tour was great fun too. Same itinerary as on 8 Jan but with the added treat of seeing the 9 tiny baby goats at one of the farms. Very cute and lots of photos taken by adults and children!
Our picnic lunch was very pleasant sitting under the trees by the lake at Eling Forest winery.
We had a birthday girl along on this trip who had chosen to come as a birthday treat. Mark at Eling Forest dressed up one of his delicious little cakes as a b'day cake which was kind.
We had a large group of little children this time (aged 3 - 6yrs) so at the free range egg farm we divided into two groups - the adults and older children in one group and the little ones in another.
Warryn's pasta demonstration was popular. This is a good way to use surplus eggs. It is only made of eggs and flour, nothing else. What child doesn't eat pasta these days - so good for them to see how it is made. They were fascinated! Each family was given a sample of pasta to take home, cut to their choice - tagliatelle, fettucine etc.
Collecting eggs rated highly too and the children learnt a lot about where their eggs come from. We even saw a hen actually lay an egg this time, which was a first! The children painted faces on some hard boiled eggs and took them home to eat.
At the dairy this time we got very close to the cows who were anxiously waiting to be milked. Craig showed us the milking apparatus and we got to feel the suction that is used to actually milk the cows. The children loved that and it caused much hilarity!
Feeding the calves was popular again especially with the bigger children (and some of the adults)!
Thanks to all our kind producers who let us visit their farms! These school holiday family farm tours have been such a success that we will repeat them next holidays. Let us know if you want to go on a waiting list?
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| The birthday girl holding a baby goat! |
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| Cute little baby Boer goats! |
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| Lunch under the trees at beautiful Eling Forest |
We had a large group of little children this time (aged 3 - 6yrs) so at the free range egg farm we divided into two groups - the adults and older children in one group and the little ones in another.
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| Inquisitive kids! |
Collecting eggs rated highly too and the children learnt a lot about where their eggs come from. We even saw a hen actually lay an egg this time, which was a first! The children painted faces on some hard boiled eggs and took them home to eat.
At the dairy this time we got very close to the cows who were anxiously waiting to be milked. Craig showed us the milking apparatus and we got to feel the suction that is used to actually milk the cows. The children loved that and it caused much hilarity!
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| Eva and Sam feeling the suction on the milking machine |
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| Zoe helping to feed the calf |
Thanks to all our kind producers who let us visit their farms! These school holiday family farm tours have been such a success that we will repeat them next holidays. Let us know if you want to go on a waiting list?
Monday, September 13, 2010
School Holidays Family Event
Sat 25 September 2010
11am – 2pm
Come along and have some fun! Enjoy this unique farm experience.
Visit a milking sheep farm on Jamberoo Pass between Robertson & Kiama where Cressie & Michael breed Eastern Friesan sheep & make ewe's milk cheese.
Lots of lambs for the children to pat & feed. Watch a sheep being milked. Join in some organised games and a sing-a-long.
Bring a picnic. Coffee, tea & fruit provided.
Approx 2hrs from Sydney, 1hr from Wollongong, 2hrs from Canberra.
Directions provided on booking.
Suitable for children under 12.
Price: $55 per family – 2 adults, 2 children (under 12 yrs), $10 each extra person.
For bookings contact Jill: E: jill@foodpath.com.au
Friday, April 16, 2010
What a great lunch we had today at Centennial Winery. Put on by the ABC Delicious magazine. It was a regional producers meal and all of the producers from our FIRST FoodPath tour tomorrow were there.See the happy snap!
There were displays of the produce used and Robin Murray the Chef spoke between courses about how he had prepared the meal using the fresh local produce.
We were featured tonight on WIN TV News! A good story about the start of food tourism in the Southern Highlands - great exposure for us. Come and join us.
Lots of enquiries coming in from various websites - some we don't even know about! Everyone is as excited as we are and the support is unbelievable.
We had a request last night for a tour including small children, so we are working on an itinerary for the July school holidays. We will post it on the Tours page when it is finalised.
Please let us know if you have any requests?
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