York Gourmet Food and Wine Festival 2012

Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd June 2012
York Town Hall
Open 10 am to 4pm daily
Adults $6 entrance, children under 12 yrs free

The annual York Gourmet Food and Wine Festival will be held this year over the Foundation Day weekend (Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd June 2012) in and around York’s iconic Town Hall. The festival will be showcasing a huge range of foods and wines from the Avon Valley and the rest of Western Australia and also some from further afield. The York Olive Oil Co will be there with our olive products, chocolates and ice creams and visitors will be able to sample wines, chillies, yabbies, cheeses, jams, pickles, exotic spices, sauces, nuts and much more from forty other stalls. Also festival markets, live entertainment, cooking demonstrations, degustation lunches and dinners and things to occupy the children.

More details about the festival can be found here: http://www.avoneventsandmarketing.com or contact Tanya Richardson by phone: 0429 260 537 or Email: tanya1973@skymesh.com.au

Regulars to the festival should note the new date in early June, rather than the last weekend in June where it was scheduled in years past.

The York Olive Oil press and retail shop on Ashworth Road will be open as usual over the long weekend, Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 10am to 5pm.

 

Pick Your Own Olives

 

Harvest time is here again, the trees are heavy with ripening olives and the press is already busy. We currently have large pickling varieties, Verdale, Kalamata and UC13A6 (Californian Queen) at optimum ripeness available for Pick Your Own harvesting at $2.50 per kg. We can provide harvesting baskets, crates, etc and also a recipe for making your own table olives. We can also supply specialised pickling containers so all you need to add is salt and water.

 

Our oil varieties will soon be ready for harvesting at 60c per kg plus our usual processing charges. If you’d like your very own cold pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil but don’t have any trees then no problem. Come along in the morning and go home in the afternoon with your freshly pressed “olio novello”.

It’s always a good idea to give us a call before you make the trip to check availability.

 

Hope Farm Guest House

Coming to York and looking for somewhere pleasant to stay? Maybe you are bringing olives to us for crushing and would like to make a weekend of it? If you feel like being pampered a bit may we recommend Hope Farm Guest House in York? Mike’s traditional breakfast alone is worth the trip (in our resident Frenchman’s opinion the croissants are “exceptional”) .

“Enjoy magnificent views of Mt Bakewell from this historic  farmhouse (c.1880) on a 6 acre rural property, including one acre of Shiraz vineyard & elegant gardens.” Visit www.hopefarmguesthouse.com.au for further details or call Mike and Jo Bryant on 0430 044 534.

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