Festival Day

Sunday 3rd May
10am - 4pm

FESTIVAL DAY & BIG PICNIC
with Matt Golinski and Sunshine Coast Foodie

!!!!NEWS UPDATE!!!!
That's not a knife......this is a knife
See live demonstrations of the traditional craft of blacksmithing.
Kitchen knives, BBQ utensils and more....!

COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS
10am - Peter Wolfe
2.30pm - Matt Golinski

COOKING MASTERCLASS with Matt Golinski
12.30pm
Working with K2 Organic grass-fed beef, learn how to cook the perfect steak, and a world class Bearnaise sauce and Autumn Salad to go with it. Matt will go through all the techniques you can use to make your next BBQ a hit.

After the work is done, sit down and enjoy your meal together with a drink or two of locally produced beverages.

Bookings essential
Tickets: tinyurl.com/Matt-Golinski-Masterclass

FOOD TALKS with GYMPIE LIVING throughout the day

SONGWRITING SOUP with Amanda Emblem
1pm
Learn the art of songwriting and help Amanda write the lyrics to the latest GourMay song.

SLOW FOOD KIDS with Slow Food Noosa
KIDS COOKING CLASS with Matt Golinski.
10.30am
Matt will talk about how yeast works to make bread dough puff up, and then the kids make their own pizza using the homemade tomato sauce and ricotta cheese made together during the session.

Parents will have to fend for themselves :-)

FERMENTATION
2.00pm - Sauerkraut
3.00pm - Kombucha
Tania Wiesmayr-Freeman “The Fermentier” will introduce kids to fermentation and its benefits

ENTERTAINMENT
12.30pm - 2pm"Those Folk"
1pm - "Wonder Pets All Animal Training" with Fluffalo, Chloe and Aroha.

BIG PICNIC 12 noon - 2pm
Join the fun at the first GourMay Mary Valley BIG picnic.
Pre-order a special GourMay hamper, grab a bite from one of our fabulous food vendors, or....
BRING YOUR OWN - making sure you purchase from local businesses supporting local businesses.

Our Savory GourMay Grazer features a delightful selection of Kenilworth Dairy cheeses, including premium vintage, and gourmet-flavoured club cheddars.
To enhance your cheese experience, there's an array of Mary Valley Smallgoods cured meats, such as ham, beer sticks and kabana.
Additionally, we provide a range of dips, such as Woollahra Homestead caramelised onion dip, tropical mango chutney, and Woolooga tomato relish.
Accompaniments include Mary Valley fruit & veggie sticks, Mary Valley roasted tomatoes, Lindol macadamia nuts, crackers & Jeremiah’s Crust Bread.
Depending on your appetitie there's enough in this hamper for bewteen 2 & 4 people. We'll also be adding 'seasonal' secrets.
Pre Book you hamper here tickets.oztix.com.au

Our Sweet GourMay Grazer features delicious freshly baked scones with Woolooga Farm jam and Maleny Dairies cream, duo of petite quiches made by Woollahra Homestead with Kenilworth Cheese & Mary Valley Roasted Tomato & Caramelised Onion. And watch out for our 'secret' sweetness.
Pre Book you hamper here tickets.oztix.com.au

BAR - 11am - 3pm
For the first time we are serving up some of the regions finest - beer, wine and Ginger Beer.
Enjoy a local beverage from

Dingo Creek Winery
Noosa HInterland Brewery
Diablo Co

Looks delicious!

Judging's a serious business

Slow Food Kids

Peter Wolfe

Food Talks with Gympie Living

Into the frying pan

Mary Valley Country Harvest Co-operative

Competitions
Baking
For bakers and pastry cooks (home cooks only) bring us your best slice, biscuit or cake and be crowned champion GourMay Mary Valley baker
Drop off to the GourMay Kitchen at the Imbil Rail Park by 9am on Sunday 3rd May.
Cash prizes to be won.

Kids veggie sculptures
Let the kids get creative and bring us the best sculpture using Mary Valley vegetables.
Drop off to the Information booth at the Imbil Rail Park by 9am on Sunday 3rd May.

Prizes to be won

GourMay Market
Food Vendors and Stalls

Competition Corner with Head Start Electrical

Are you puzzled? Why? We reckon it's "a piece of cake"!

Going Bananas! Variety is the spice of life! Crying over spilt milk! Two peas in a pod!
Find the Idioms* scattered across the Festival site. Let's make it "A Bakers Dozen!"
*An idiom is a phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a meaning you wouldn't be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words"

Why get 'Egg on your Face', when you can put 'Paint on that Egg'
Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!