Taste the Harvest

Coming to the Foreshore Soon!

Don't forget to get your Harvest Dinner tickets for the Friday night at LJ Hookers in Devonport!

Tulip bulb sales for Parkinsons

Tulip Bulbs will be for sale at The Taste of the Harvest Festival on Sunday the 8th of March! All proceeds go to Parkinsons Australia. The Parkinson tulip is used by all the Australian Parkinson's Associations. 

Parkinson's Australia is a not-for-profit community organisation with a branch in every State and Territory. It provides information and support to people living with Parkinson's disease, their carers, families and friends. People living with Parkinsons have <these> problems. For more information on Parkinson's, check the Australian web site www.parkinsons.org.au

World's Greatest Shave

The Leukaemia Foundation World’s Greatest Shave is one of Australia’s biggest fundraising events. 100,000 people across the country will shave or colour their hair. Why not be brave and shave? Don’t go it alone – start a team today.

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Background to World's Greatest Shave

If you like to get your head shaved come to theSpreyton Cricket Club at Maidston Park. Joseph Gaughan is shaving off his (long) hair, and tickets will be auctioned/raffled off to shave his head.

There will be a BBQ and cheap drinks. Starts at 7pm and the shave will be at 8pm.
Contact: Joseph Gaughan on 0408 151 658

Saturday 14 March, 7:00 PM: Be there!

Printing for community groups

Did you know that www.theinternetprinter.com.au is a community-based printing company whose products include: business cards, full colour postcard printer, stationery printing and laser printer safe letterhead printing and all at discounted prices. They are committed to community groups, and 10% of all their printing receipts are given to community group. You can even nominate your own group!

Taste the Harvest around the corner

The City of Devonport Lions Club organises an annual food and wine festival celebrating diversity and high quality produce from the North West region of Tasmania. Staged on the banks of the Mersey River in the centre of the city of Devonport. Held every second Sunday of March it is appropriately called ‘Taste the Harvest’. This year will mark the 9th consecutive Taste the Harvest as Tasmania’s key fruit and vegetable producers exhibit their products along with celebrity chefs and numerous cafes and restaurants in stalls set up on the lawn.
Catering for a wide variety of tastes, offerings typically included potato and vegetable dishes, venison, seafood, beef and lamb. Fresh berries and desserts are a popular repast and wonderful Tasmanian wine, beer, cheeses and quality coffee are there to accompany the other gourmet foods.

Listen to live entertainment ranging from rock and roll, country, jazz and folk to stand-up comedians as local celebrity chefs cook up a storm using products grown locally and share their expertise and ideas. Visitors are entertained everywhere they wander with music, singing and acting by artists from all over Tasmania.

The Harvest Celebration Dinner is the traditional Friday night start to the weekend, marking the beginning of the event. What better way to prepare for a day full of entertainment and good food than to indulge in the absolute best of the best. The 2009 dinner is held at Reece High School, featuring locally produced gourmet Tasmanian food and wines. The dinner sets the tone for the main event the following Sunday, giving the dinner guests a full day to recover from their indulgence.

The Taste the Harvest event is organised by a dedicated committee comprised of members of the City of Devonport Lion’s Club, who are supported by volunteers, Devonport City Council, Devonport City Promotions, TAPG, the Devonport branch of Soroptimists International, and the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industry and Water.

For more information visit www.tastetheharvest.org.au.

Photos by Wayne Harris!