Amazing gourmet dinners will celebrate Tasmanian food and showcase the Tamar Valley region during the 2023 Farmgate Festival.

The festival will begin in spectacular style with a dinner showcasing local Tasmanian produce - with a menu including ingredients grown right in the Tamar Valley and surrounds. Diners will indulge in an array of seasonal, local and organic produce in a celebration of Tasmanian flavours. Matching wine will be served for a truly sensational degustational experience.

Well known chefs will prepare the feasts.

Tickets for these events will be available online at farmgatefestival.net.au.

Farmgate Festival returns in 2023, connecting people with locally produced food. The festival will take place this year in November, when a collection of small farm and rural businesses in the Tamar Valley will open their gates to the public for the weekend.

Visitors can visit the farms they’re interested in, for short guided tours hosted by the business owners themselves.

The aim of the festival is to educate and inform people on how real food is produced. This year, we expect that up to sixteen businesses will take part. Some of which will have been part of the festival since its inaugural year, and some will join us for the first time to tell their stories.

There’s plenty to discover, as the farms, orchards and vineyards showcase how they go about their business. You can expect to see demonstrations of harvesting, production and processing techniques. There will be product samples and tastings, animal encounters and farmgate sales.

Tours vary in length. Some are short at around 10 to 20 minutes, some a little longer, up to 40 minutes. As a visitor, you will drive your own vehicle between venues, choosing the farms to suit you, and taking in the scenic Tamar Valley along the way.

Festival tickets gain you entry to as many farms as you would like to visit on both days, allowing plenty of time over the whole weekend to visit.

Please check back here regularly as we continue to add information to make your Farmgate festival experience once to remember.

At each of our venues, you’ll find the owner ready to conduct a short tour. They’ll tell you their story, and a bit about what it’s like to run a small, agricultural or food based business in the Tamar Valley.

In past Festivals you will have checked in at the Farmgate Festival Hub, by showing a print-out of your ticket, or showing us on your phone. We’ll issued you with a wristband which is your entry to festival venues over the weekend.

At each venue you visited after that, your wristband number was checked at the start of the tour, so that we could trace where you’ve been.

If you have any questions over the weekend, please ask a volunteer or the owner of the farm you’re visiting, and we will find out the answer for you.

Have a great weekend!