Heritage Ventures
Taste your History: Bush Bites and Brews, Fiddles and Yarns
creators and speakers
Taditional Fiddle Playing; Bush to Bowl; Sydney Bee Rescue; Mangrove Woodworkers; Modern Herbal Apothecary; Hawkesbury Duck
location
The Hawkesbury Duck, Spencer
time & date
9.30am - 12:30pm
Saturday 7 December 2024
fitness level
Easy - note steps leading to the Hawkesbury Duck
ticket price
$55.00 + booking fee
highlights
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Bush bites from home-made damper, corn, warrigal greens to native food omelettes, sweet treats and herbal teas from the modern apothecary.
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Talks, yarns and insights from the creators.
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Accompanied by traditional fiddle playing with Hollly Brewster
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Teas and coffee throughout the day
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Purchase unique gifts from the makers from bush medicine, native food plants, to wood turned kitchenware and award winning local raw honey and hand made cards.
the event
Enjoy tea and food pairings sampling craft foods with talks from the creators and live music. Think billy tea, artisan crafted damper and bush honey with the story of the bee and flower synergy. Experience traditional foods and plant flavours with the tastes of warrigal greens and native herbs from Bush to Bowl and hear about this amazing social enterprise. Try roasted corn aka 'Hawkesbury Duck' and sample colonial bush tea with historical yarns. Sip on medicinal brews, hear about key botanicals and their applications from the modern apothecary - served with sweet treats inspired by the Australian bush. Craft products and foods will be on sale - buy direct from the creators for a unique gift.
the producers:
Snives Hives and Sydney Bee Rescue
Snives Hives is the honey brand of Sydney Bee Rescue. Completely bee-orientated they rescue bee swarms to save them from extermination and build them up to full strength and make honey (what the bees can spare). How about Autumn Harvest thick with a hint of caramel after the bees have feasted on the Bloodwoods. Or Snives triple award winner winter harvest the darkest and strongest honey from the flowering Banksia. Or single origin from an apiary hidden in the forests of McPherson State Forest. All 100% raw honey – perfect for a special Christmas gift.
Bush to Bowl
Bush to Bowl is a 100% owned Aboriginal social enterprise based in North Sydney with a farm at Lower Mangrove. Bush to Bowl specialise in sharing traditional foodways through workshops (bush tucker walks, identifying foods, tasting and discussing their various uses); landscaping for purposeful, cultural gardens and country regeneration and runs a nursery of native plants and fresh produce. Luca Bodewes-Leach from Lower Mangrove creates food samples and shares insights into the diversity of bush foods. Native herbs and food for sale from creeping saltbush to curry myrtle.
Mangrove Bodging Woodworkers
The Lower Mangrove Bodging Woodworkers like old school traditional crafts using traditional tools. Loving working with local timbers they shape them, working with their strengths and weaknesses to form something useful. Using local Sassafras, Cedar, Turpentine, Ironbark, Blue gum, Blackwood, Cheese tree and Mangrove tree all the senses are used to discover the smells, textures, grains and colours of timbers. Hear conversations about the use of local timbers past and present. Lovingly crafted timber spoons available for purchase. With Mike Breheny and Nivarna from Mangrove Creek.
The Modern Herbal Apothecary
Smell, sample and enjoy a delightful range of teas, including Autumn Berry Tea, Winter Blues Tea, Summer Detox Tea, and Spring Vitality Tea from The Modern Herbal Apothecary. Joanne Leak, director of the Modern Herbal Apothecary talks about the benefits and seasonal specificity of her tea range. Teas for purchase along with charming small teapots with strainers.
