at Peppermint Ridge Farm & Cornucopia Living Heritage Centre we are inspiring a sustainable future with experiences for all your senses!

• We are passionate about our unique Australian environment. Since 1996, we have been offering a range of experiences designed to excite and inspire.
• Located at Tynong North, 75km south-east of Melbourne, Peppermint Ridge Farm and Cornucopia Living Heritage Centre are designed to showcase sustainability. We have had over 6000 visitors attending one of our sustainability workshops or enjoying a bushfood lunch.
• You can choose to attend one of our advertised workshops and tours or contact us to organise your own event. Both sites are also available for hire for your next work or private function.
• Our motto is TASTE - LEARN - SEE. At each workshop (listed below and in our calendar) we make sure all of these are covered

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what's been happening lately?

At Peppermint Ridge Farm and Cornucopia Living Heritage Centre we have been busy of late.

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2010 flyer

Sunday Sustainability Series and Environmental Tours information

our consultancy service

Our consultancy service provides a wide range of services in environmental land management, community development projects and property design. Please contact us for further information on how we can assist you with your next project.

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NURSERY & farm produce

Purchase plants, produce and gifts at the Peppermint Ridge Farm nursery and shop.

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event & tour
Bookings & enquiries

All workshops, events and tours must be booked and payment made prior to the event. Please read our terms and conditions.

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cornucopia & our logo

• read about our logo and the legend of cornucopia and the horn of plenty.

taste

• discover the unique flavour of Australian Bushfood
• relax in beautiful rural surroundings
• graze on organic food
• organise your own group or be part of one of our events

learn

• build your skills for sustainable living at the living classroom@ Peppermint Ridge Farm
• enrol in one of our Sunday series of practical sustainablity workshops

see

• take a tour of the Cornucopia Living Heritage Centre & Peppermint Ridge Farm
• educational tours also available for schools, TAFE, community groups and universities
• speak to us about a theme if you are planning an organised tour or group booking

THE SPRING GRAZE

Spring into Bush Food Grazing
Sunday September 26
12.00pm - 3.30 pm

Graze on the spring flush of fresh bushfoods grown right here at Peppermint Ridge Farm. Taste the delights of our new 4 course Spring Menu combining fresh local produce flavoured with our own Strawberry Gum, Aniseed & Lemon Myrtle and Native Spinach whilst enjoying our lovely forest views.

Enjoy the spring sunshine and join the guided tour of the bushfood garden. Our bushfood nursery will be open so you can purchase your own unique plants to take home.

$75 per head includes 4 courses and bush food garden tour

540 Tynong North Road, Tynong North - Bookings essential

Sunday Sustainability Series of Workshops

Vegetable Growing - Naturally
Sunday September 12

Bushfoods for your Backyard
Sunday October 17

Tour the Cornucopia Australis exhibition - depicting Australia’s environmental history & stroll through the native gardens

Sunday September 19

Sunday October 10

Sunday November 14

Speak to us about a theme if you are planning an organised tour or group booking

WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING LATELY?

• East Bentleigh Primary School enjoyed a day learning about aboriginal culture and the wide range of uses for our wonderful Australian native plants. They toured the bush food gardens and Peppermint Ridge Farm. The students particularly enjoyed eating the delicious bush food morning tea! Mick Harding a local aboriginal artist shared his vast knowledge and then thrilled the students giving them lessons in boomerang throwing.
• Food Technology students from Nagle College in Bairnsdale had a great time sampling the native foods and learning how to make more use of them in the hospitality industry.
• Morwell Probus Club and the Retired Citizens Assoc. had an information filled day starting with a tour of the Cornucopia Living Heritage Centre and 'Cornucopia Australis Exhibition" before coming up to Peppermint Ridge for a lunch flavoured with our own native foods. They were then entertained by our local poet with recitals from the great bush poets such as Henry Lawson & Banjo Patterson.

Various firms have booked our venues to run meetings and events making use of our private facilities and delicious food. Peppermint Ridge and Cornucopia are available for hire for meetings and events and you can arrange your own group tour of both venues and enjoy our unique food.

Contact us for more information on our interesting range of group tours.

NURSERY & farm products

Products for sale include:

• Our own fresh free range eggs – personally thank the chook who laid your eggs!
• Seasonal organic vegetables and fruit
• Fresh Organic Bush Foods – Lemon Myrtle, Aniseed Myrtle, Native Spinach, Native Mints (3 varieties) and much more
• Bush Food Plants
• Bush Food Recipe Book
• Peppermint Ridge Farm Organic Eucalyptus Oil
• Organic Yarra Valley Olive Oil
• Peppermint Ridge Farm Organic Hay (square bales)
• Organic composted manures and potting mix for your new vegetable garden