Local food to star at GLENRAC birthday
Local producers will star at next week's GLENRAC birthday celebrations, with the event line up announced by the conservation group yesterday.
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Graham Moore of Moore Venison, Peter Scott of Gillens Glencoe Garlic, and Tom Hartmann of Glen Olives all produce food within a 160 kilometre radius of the place they will be consumed.
The trio will also share both their paddock to plate story and explain the impact of the current climate on their business that night.
The feast will take place as GLENRAC celebrates thirty years in business on November 20.
Dinner guests will be treated to a menu of Stanthorpe cheeses, smoked trout, honey glazed goat, roasted venison, pickled vegetables, black garlic and fresh strawberries.
"The drought has impacted us over the last two years, with production being down by 60 per cent approximately," said Mr Hartmann.
His olive grove of over 800 trees regularly win Glen Olives top awards at the annual Sydney Royal Fine Food Show.
"As well as this dinner giving us more exposure, and highlighting to a lot of people that olives really are grown in the New England, we are looking forward to hearing how other producers are drought proofing their properties."
For Peter Scott, his wife and their growing partners, Jim and Lynn Gillen, the dinner provides an opportunity to give the public their first taste of newly introduced product: black garlic.
They are currently introducing it to the general public by sale at community markets and health food stores throughout the region and the coast.
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