Experience a unique long local farmers’ lunch for a good cause

Pachamama Catering and SWAMP (Sustainable Wetlands Agricultural Makers Project) will host The Giving Garden – A Long Table Harvest Lunch on November 9.

Featuring a three-course meal, it will be held at the SWAMP Market Garden in Somersby and cost for the BYO event is $100 a ticket.

Participants will have the opportunity to meet local growers and farmers, experience a garden tour and be entertained with live music by Woodie McClean.

Showcasing seasonally harvested goods from a selection of the finest local growers and suppliers on the Central Coast, it includes a beautifully styled long table setting by a locally owned small business Taybl with cuisine straight from the SWAMP market garden.

Money raised goes back into the hands of local growers and suppliers and SWAMP, a not-for-profit community focused social enterprise.

This event provides an opportunity to support a project which connects more vulnerable community members with free, fresh, organic produce via collaborative organisations, all working to help those in need.

The food grown at SWAMP Tuggerah goes straight into the hands of The Epic Centre, San Remo Neighbourhood Centre and CoastHands. 

It is then distributed to people who are in hardship or have no access to fresh local produce and families in need. 

SWAMP also provides community groups and services the opportunity to the learn and experience growing food and facilitates educational programs such as the Soil to Plate Program for young people living with disabilities, Foundational Skills for Women at the Glen rehab, Barayi Community Gardening program at Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Health Services and a new collaboration with Central Coast Women’s Health Centre at Wyoming. 

SWAMP also has a unique collaborative partnership with ARC Ento Technologies at Somersby where it manages the market garden as a demonstration and educational space utilising Black Soldier Fly Frass to help with soil and plant health.

School groups, garden groups and individuals visit on a regular basis for tours, workshops and events.

The Giving Garden lunch will offer a unique community dining experience in the impressive fertile grounds of the SWAMP community market gardens at Somersby.

For tickets click here.