Join us to celebrate the start of Australian Garlic Season:
- Meet the growers
- Watch garlic plaiting
- Discover different varieties
- Talk to garlic expert Penny Woodward
- Learn how its grown, cured and harvested
- Taste delicious garlic dishes
Visitors will also be able to dine on garlic themed dishes available from the Market restaurants: Claypots Evening Star, Koy, Simply Spanish and Paco y Lola; and discover how garlic can be used in so many different ways and in so many different cuisines. Penny Woodward, author, organic gardener and garlic expert will be present with her book ‘Garlic, An organic guide to knowing growing and using garlic’ described by gardening legend Peter Cundall as “the best book I have ever read anywhere in the world on garlic”.
There is more to learn about garlic than you thought was possible. Garlic is not only essential to food and medicine, but is also a pest repellent in organic gardening. Find out about garlic greens, garlic sprouts, green garlic, black garlic and smoked garlic at this special event and get caught up in the joy of garlic.
