Highlands Harvest

 

The Southern Highlands Harvest project team has recently completed mapping the outlets of local produce with more than thirty local growers registered. A ‘food trail’ map and guide is now available at no cost from Tourism Southern Highlands or download from the CANWin website.

With a rich agricultural heritage, the Wingecarribee bioregion offers great diversity on its food trail: a plethora of herbs, vegetables, berries and other fruits, including heirloom varieties, as well as olives, chestnuts, free range eggs, truffles, honey, meat goats, milking sheep (for cheese making), beef cattle, barramundi, artisan cheeses. Add to this the many grape producers and cool climate wine makers.

At farmers markets or farmgate/cellar door sales, local people and visitors alike have the opportunity to learn more about how their food is produced, and build relationships with those who grow that food. People see not only the nutritional and taste benefits, but also environmental sustainability of reducing the distance that food travels from the paddock to the plate.

If you have an interest in wonderful produce and great food and wine, the Southern Highlands Harvest map will help you source the bounty of local growers, vignerons and providores, so that you can experience the great diversity of locally produced food distinctive to our region, while supporting the economic sustainability of local agriculture.

A map can be found at the following link: Southern Highlands Harvest