| Four Seasons: | ||||||||||
| The Ultimate Foodmaking Experience! | ||||||||||
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Take on positions in the Four Seasons Food Production Program, providing a great year of fun and challenging food production, products dicated by season. . Participants travel to McLaren Vale for one day of challenging "hands on" food production every three months. All foods produced are packaged and returned to participants for private consumption. |
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| Spring: | Your group rises early, and heads to a local dairy to collect their milk fresh by hand. After a warming breakfast, they spend the day making Brie, Fetta and Ricotta from the milk. All transport and a full breakfast and lunch is provided. A 2 kg wheel of Brie and a 2kg tub of Fetta is returned to your group after 6 weeks. |
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| Summer: | Your group heads out to the McLaren Vale and hand harvests a quarter acre of good quality Shiraz. The harvest are taken to the Redheads winery and the wine pressed from the berries. All transport and a full lunch is provided. Fifty (50) dozen bottles of wine is produced for your group and returned for consumption after 12 months. |
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| Autumn: | Your group hand harvests a quarter tonne of Kalamata olives. After sorting for table olives, the rest is pressed for oil. All transport and a full lunch is provided. Fifty (50) x 750ml bottles of quality Olive Oil and fifty (50) x 350g jars of Table Olives are produced and returned to your group of private consumption. |
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| Winter: | Your group spends the day with a commercial brewer making beer. All transport and a full lunch is provided. One hundred dozen bottles (fifty cases) of beer is produced and returned to your group for private consumption. |
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| Venue: | Various venues
across McLaren Vale, SA |
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| Period: | Generally 9am to 5pm, although early start option exists with Cheesemaking. | |||||||||
| Cost: | $1450/head (min.12, max 20) | |||||||||
The day includes transport to/from CBD, as well as morning and afternoon tea and appropriate meals. |
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| When: | New groups can begin any time, starting their 12 month program with the appropriate seasonal event. | |||||||||
| Further info: | Download and print FOUR SEASONS or EMAIL questions direct. | |||||||||