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Northern Rivers Food Harvest Food Trail will return in 2021!

The Northern Rivers Food Harvest Food Trail, to be held on the weekend of May 1-2 2021, is guaranteed to be a very Northern Rivers experience, reflecting on and celebrating the distinctive provenance of our region’s food. The Trail will offer lots of wonderful eating and drinking experiences, jammed-packed with our most-acclaimed restaurants, producers, farmers and growers. The Northern Rivers Food Harvest Festival has run each year since 2016. Due to COVID last year the festival was forced to cancel. This year Northern Rivers Foodhave announced an exciting evolution and have...

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🥁 Drumroll 🥁   We are SO excited to announce the participants of our Northern Rivers Food Harvest Food Trail 2021!   Over the weekend of May 1-2 we will showcase 24 participants, including two tours, from farm-gate produce, three course dining, grower talks, classes, distillery tours, tasting sessions, talks on regenerative farming and demonstrations from the region’s most celebrated chefs, the Northern Rivers Food Trail weekend is packed with both phenomenal food and food for thought.   Announcing our wonderful participants - Husk Distillers, Sunshine Sugar, Doña Cholita, Tropical Fruit World, The Farm at...

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Mar 17 2021

Member Stories: Rebecca Barnes, Playing with Fire Native Foods

Rebecca Barnes heads up Playing with Fire Native Foods, a local Northern Rivers NSW company that is working hard to promote the virtues of our amazing Australian native food industry.   She hasn’t always worked in the food industry – originally, she worked in the insurance industry but was looking for a career change that was a little more family friendly. Rebecca moved to the Northern Rivers NSW region back in 1996.  She found inspiration one day when wandering through the bush with a friend and discovered the delights of native raspberries....

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Harvest Food Trail – Sponsor Announcement

We are delighted to announce the sponsors of our Northern Rivers Food Harvest Food Trail 2021! Thank you so much to all the businesses that have come on board to support us. We could not run this year's event without your continued support. A huge shout out to - Partnership Destination NSW Gold Sponsors Stone & Wood Brewing Silver Sponsors NAB Bread Social Brookfarm Bangalow Sweet Pork Santos Organics Bronze Sponsors Ballina Visitor Information Centre Shoobridge Transport Tweed Real Food Salumi Australia Mark Napper Media Partner The Northern Rivers Times ...

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Feb 23 2021

NRF Member Story: Don Jones, Essential Greens A New Sustainable Microalgae Farming Industry for the Northern Rivers Region

“I can’t do that” is not a phrase that you will hear Don Jones utter…ever.   Don is the General Manager and Executive Director of emerging business Essential Greens Pty Ltd which is based in the Tweed region of Northern Rivers NSW.  Don has over 40 years of experience in Engineering and Architectural Design within the construction industry living and working in interesting and exotic locales such as Malaysia, Bougainville Island in PNG, Hong Kong and western Qld!   His latest base & business adventure is in the Tweed region of Northern Rivers NSW...

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