Explore Elizabeth Farm at Spring Harvest festival Rosehill on October 13, 2019
Catch a glimpse of how the Macarthur family used to dine and cook at Rosehill’s Elizabeth Farm — Australia’s oldest homesteads — when the Spring Harvest festival bursts to life.
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Forget everything you said to your offspring about playing with your food.
One of the drawcards of the Spring Harvest at Elizabeth Farm on Sunday is environmental educator Diego Bonetto hosting sculptures workshops for youngsters to make “villain and hero” characters out of their veggies.
“The aim is to have people come and to have fun with it; to be crafty and come away from the technology and use the food around them to create characters,’’ he said.
“Hopefully when they go back home they see craft and creativity is around them. Everyone’s got a potato at home, everyone’s got a carrot at home.
“It’s an empowering process for kids to engage with the elements around them.’’
Along with the workshops, artisan delights, a fine food market and fascinating talks about Elizabeth Farm — one of Australia’s oldest homesteads — is planned for the annual Spring Harvest at Rosehill.
Children are also invited to sample forgotten flavours and lost techniques in cordial making workshop where they can whip up their own lemon sherbet from a recipe dating to 1816, and try their hand at folding a lotus flower napkin as featured in the 1907 edition of Mrs Beeton’s Guide to Household Management.
Visitors can browse, sample, sip and shop from a hand-picked selection of Sydney’s finest food producers including breads, cheeses, gourmet meats, pies, gelato, teas, salts and spices.
Fledgling artists can also get crafty with a creative collage workshop designed by artist Alice Lindstrom and inspired by Elizabeth Farm’s colonial kitchen.
Visitors can also meander through the historic homestead and experience how the Macarthur family lived and dined while glimpsing their colonial kitchen with its wood-fire stove and how the dining room would have been set, in full splendour for a formal occasion.
You can opt for a delicious spread from stalls including Bilpin Cider, Brickfields, Willowbrae Chevre Cheese, Broomfields Pie Co and the Gelato Man or sip on Devonshire tea in the Elizabeth Farm Tearoom.
● Spring Harvest is at Elizabeth Farm, 70 Alice St, Rosehill, on October 13 from 10am to 3pm. General entry is $8, Sydney Living Museum members $5, family $25, children under five free. Book at slm.is/harvesting
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