Festival Day 2025
Saturday May 10         ​9am - 3pm
​Imbil Town Square & Rail Park

With your host
Martin Duncan
​known to most as 'Sunshine Coast Foodie'

What's on the MENU
in the GourMay Kitchen?
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​Cooking demonstrations
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9.30am    "Herring Under a Fur Coat" with Anastasia Jakuschinski  
10.30am    Celebrating the Bush with Peter Wolfe

10.15 am Baking competition awards and produce sales

Food Talks with Gympie Living

10.00 am    John Tidy
​10.30 am     CC   
11.00 am    Tim Scott    
11.30 am    Adele Frew
12 noon      Shane Kent

John Tidy Organics – Why Organic? And the seasonal ​flavours of avocados
Woolooga Farm Kitchen - Things you can do with rosellas and produce that grows well in our region.
​Kandanga Farm - Embracing the complexity of nature to produce better food.
Belli Beef – From Soil to Soul: regenerating land, food and community.
Wild Barrell Beer – Beer done differently.

Exhibition  at the Imbil RSL Hall
May Bee

Come along to the sweetest exhibition in town, taste some honey, and have your questions answered by an expert.
There will be Bee 'comb' honey, beeswax, bee books and bee artefacts.
​Talk by Bee keeping expert Brian McKenzie at 11.30am.
Imbil RSL Hall 

12.30pm - 1.30pm
"The Great GourMay Mary Valley Cooking Challenge"
4 locals go head to head in a Mystery Box style challenge to see who will be crowned
GourMay Mary Valley Cook of the Year

Cured Compliance with Bryton Wishart
Audience Quiz Time

Looks delicious!

Judging's a serious business

Peter Wolfe

Food Talks with Gympie Living

Into the frying pan

Mary Valley Country Harvest Co-operative

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 Competitions

$20 entry fee per team

RULES

To enter contact [email protected]

GourMay Market - ​Food Vendors and Stalls

Competition Corner with Headstart Electrical

Are you puzzled?        Why? 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 Imbil. 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"
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Why get 'Egg on your Face',  when you can put 'Paint on that Egg'
Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!

Kids Corner
 Face painting, henna tattoos ​and colouring in table.
Acrobatics with Mary Valley Circus

Entertainment
​Live Music
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Hannah Rose

Cool Lula

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