Flinders Bush Festival News page

Quorn is the home of bush foods in the Flinders Ranges, with many pioneers of this industry based in the surrounding area. Our medium term goal for the Flinders Ranges Bush Festival is to focus on the promotion of bush tucker and products made from regional materials. This will cover all aspects from primary production, manufacturing, suppliers and consumers and will grow to include cooking demonstrations and industry workshops with high profile guest chefs and presenters. Read on to hear how our first event went.

A group of enthusiastic Quorn locals hosted the inaugural Flinders Ranges Bush Festival on the Anzac weekend 2008, to coincide with the annual Tastes of the Outback.

The weekend began on Friday night with the outdoor screening of Gallipolli at the Quorn Caravan Park. It was estimated that approx 150 attended this evening. There was plenty of food with the Stockyard areana providing a BBQ, the Yura Ladies cooked up someKangaroo with spicy Quangdon sauce and the Flinders Bush Festival providing dessert of icecream with bush tucker flavoured syrups and Quangdong crumble. The Quandong crumble was served in the Keep-sake bowls which were created through the Port Augusta re-imagines program.

The main event was held at the Quorn Town Hall on the following day with stallholders offering bush food products, regional produce based on natural products (ie wood, wool, art) and Australian native plants. This was complemented by a self-guided, self-drive tour to various farm gates and community gardens. To cap off the days’ festivities, the Quorn Caravan Park hosted its second film 'Lucky Miles' that night, but due to the rain it was quicklyrelocated to the Quorn Town Hall.

We estimate that over the weekend approx 700 people attended which for our first effort is not too bad and we have been given some great feedback on how to improve on this success for next year. Many of the stall holders have expressed interest in coming to our next event and we are always looking for more people to 'showcase' their products. If you have a product and would like to join us next year follow this link HERE to get more information.

For next year we would like to see some more entertainment during the Festival. This could range from Music, poetry, workshops, demonstrations and even cultural dance. If you have a talent you would like to share contact us
on jackie@outbackjack.info