With a month to go until the 2015 Sunshine Coast Real Food Festival, organisers have unveiled a festival program rich with food experiences, inspiring presentations and a celebration of the region’s food producers.
Not only can visitors indulge in the region’s best produce with over 100 food and food-related exhibits, they can experience 88 sessions across seven venues, throughout the two days.
Sunshine Coast Businessman Philip Hart has become the newest ambassador to Sunshine Coast Airport’s Fly Local campaign, which aims to highlight the importance and benefits to the community of people choosing to Fly Local.
The 2015 Real Food Festival organisers will start the month countdown to the big event with a sneak peak of the festival at a long table lunch prepared by Rory Thorpe for Festival stakeholders at Spicers Tamarind Retreat on Tuesday (4th August).
With increased demand for local organic produce to ensure clean and healthy food, the fifth annual Sunshine Coast Real Food Festival will hold workshops to educate locals on the importance of local food supply chains and how the community can get involved.
Local food supply pioneer and owner of Good Harvest, Mick Dan, said his presentation will focus on how the local real food movement has gone global.
“After travelling around the world working with local communities and development projects and just having returned from a research trip in the Amazon, I’m passionate about educating the community about their local food supply chain.
Congratulations to the Sunshine Coast Airport on securing new Qantas Link flights including business friendly schedule.
We are very proud to have been working with the Airport, and our campaign delivery partners Various Artists, to deliver the Fly Local campaign, encouraging Sunshine Coasters to #FlyLocal. These flights will be great for Coast residents.
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The fifth annual Sunshine Coast Real Food Festival will not only serve up an array of produce from across the Sunshine Coast region but will also host workshops aimed at creating awareness of issues concerning the community and food chain supply.
Accredited practising dietitian, Cherie Hugo founded The Lantern Project when Cherie discovered an urgent need for change when she was working in aged care.
SUNREEF Mooloolaba is welcoming the Humpback Whales to the Sunshine Coast this Saturday with a family fun day at their Mooloolaba Dive Centre to celebrate the Start of the Swim with the Whales season.
The 2015 Swim with Whales season is just the second, with Sunreef being the first in Australia to introduce this unique experience last year.
The fifth annual Sunshine Coast Real Food Festival will host an impressive line up of chefs celebrating Coast produce in an array of international styles on September 12 & 13.
Just one of those chefs is the force behind Brisbane’s Moda Restaurant and Moda Events Portside, Javier Codina. Award-winning and a leader in the food industry, Javier uses a lot of Sunshine Coast food at his restaurants where his inspired, inventive dishes capture the essence of his cultural influences – Catalan, French and Italian – meshed with his professional expertise and the freshest local produce.
You can feel the coolness in the air and even the whales are excited – singing as they make their way up Australia’s East Coast – Sunreef Mooloolaba’s Swim with Whales season starts in just a matter of days on July 4th.
“We are so excited,” Sunreef Whale Encounter supervisor Dan Hart said. “The team is already out doing trials and training ready for the start of the season – its such an awesome experience we just can’t wait to start sharing it with people again this year.”
The Buderim Foundation is pleased to announce for the eighth consecutive year, a record amount of funding will be spent on projects benefiting the Buderim community. The 2015 Community Grants Program provides grants to eligible community groups that provide services to residents within the 4556 postcode.
