After Saturday's forum, May 16th, thirteen local folks came together to share a beautiful lunch made from fresh local ingredients.

We basked in the warm Witta sun and gobbled up our treats that included sweet potato from Sandy Creek Organic Farm roasted in macadamia oil from Yandina with homegrown rosemary; local and homegrown vegetable frittata made from local eggs; gorgeous green salads that up until that morning were growing in Maleny gardens...just to name a few. Then, there was the fruit! Pineapples, mandarins, bananas. Your mouth watering yet??

What any local food picnic aims to highlight is the variety of food available within a short distance from where you live...it's local. Next time you're shopping, consider where the foods you buy are grown and/or made. Choose a local option, if possible.

So, organise your own local food picnic with your friends and family...it's easy, it's fun, it supports your local growers and producers and it's YUM!

Join us for the next local food picnic...proposed for - June 20th - after Sustainable Maleny's June forum - more details to come.