About Harvest Festival
Celebrate our abundant local food - Northern Rivers Food style
The Northern Rivers Food Harvest Festival is all about connecting people with real food on real farms.
The Festival provides locals and visitors with an opportunity to sample fresh and beautifully prepared food by renowned local chefs, hear how it is grown and pay homage to our much loved local food producers!
The 2020 Harvest Festival program is jam packed with events across the region from Friday 1 May to Saturday 9 May 2020.
The full 2020 program will be announced in coming weeks, with tickets on sale from mid March.
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Events
Just some of the not-to-be-missed festivities forming part of the 2020 Harvest Festival program:
- Opening Event at Stone & Wood’s Byron Bay brewery
- The Harvest Trail (Saturday 2 May and Sunday 3 May)
- The return of Brookfarm’s abundant long table Harvest breakfast
- Breakfast at the stunning Beach Byron Bay where sustainability will be the focus
- A community feast at Barrio Byron Bay
- Moorish Feast cooking workshop with Open Table Cooking School
- Table Under a Tree’s expert-led tour of the culinary delights of the Byron hinterland
- A long lunch on the Clarence River
- An indulgent lunch in The Spotted Pig’s charming church in Lindendale
- A special five course degustation dinner at Hotel Illawong in Evans Head
- Taverna’s Harvest luncheon on the beach at Kingscliff
- A Food Photography and Social Media Workshop with award winning photography superstar Nelly le Comte
- Mount Warning Tours Sunset Cruise on the Tweed
- A long table dinner under the stars in Kyogle’s amphitheatre
- Bombay Cricketer’s Club Harvest luncheon in Casuarina
- Night food market at M|ARTS in Murwillumbah
Harvest Trail
Part of enjoying the food, is knowing the story… understanding where your food was grown, the sustainable methods used to grow or produce the food, the farmer who grew and brought the food to market or the local baker who lovingly baked the bread. We all love the back-story!
In its third year in 2020 our Harvest Food Trail offers the opportunity for a self drive foodie experience: simply jump in your car and leisurely enjoy the whole farm to plate experience!
In 2020 we have farmers and food producers stretching from the Tweed to Grafton and Casino on the weekend of Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 2020.
If you’re a local food business keen on participating in the Trail please contact NRF’s Executive Officer on [email protected]
Get involved!
As well as our participating members, NRF have a whole team of volunteers behind the scenes who take time out of their own business to bring the Harvest Festival and Harvest Trail to life each year.
To get involved in the NRF Harvest Festival please contact NRF’s Executive Officer on [email protected]
