Cooking Schools & Workshops

Gather ingredients from an extensive kitchen garden and learn new skills with a cooking class in the Jacican cooking school in Mirboo North. Jaci will have you whipping up everything from home-made pasta to slow-cooked meats and even lollies for grown-ups.

Real Bread by George was the home of sourdough before it became pandemic-cool. Learn to craft your own artisan sourdough in the warmth of this West Gippsland country kitchen. Or if you just want to get your hands on their delicious loaves stat – you can find them at the Baw Baw Food Hub.

Meat-lovers rejoice! Warragul's String & Salt have evolved their cooking school to focus on salting, curing, dry aging, butchery and wild caught game. While this is an exciting shift in their offering, their classes remain thoroughly hands-on and focused on teaching traditional skills and celebrating quality produce.

Sharpen your skills in barbecuing, cooking with seafood, herbs and spices, or specialise in flavours of the world with a class from the renowned Culinaire Cooking School in Swan Reach. Delight in Australia’s native foods at Peppermint Ridge Farm (Tynong North), their Native Pantry cooking classes run throughout the year, where you’ll learn how to include native foods into everyday recipes. Be sure to take a few farmgate-fresh and dried native foods home with you, or grown your own from their Native Foods nursery.

Wild Earth Mother in the picturesque Tarra Valley offers fermenting and cheesemaking workshops, they also stock a wide range of handcrafted fermented food and drinks at their farm gate.

Food tours

East Gippsland Variety Tours: guided tours of East Gippsland’s best food and drink venues, book a tour on their 20-seat bus or build your own custom group tour. Tour & accommodation packages available.

Dianne’s Venture Tours: departing Cowes, this guided tour visits South Gippsland’s cheese, olive oil, wine and beer-making venues

Inverloch Food & Wine Tours: hosted tour of South Gippsland’s finest wineries, breweries, distilleries and restaurants, multiple local pick up points

Lakes Entrance Helicopters: scenic flights over the Gippsland Lakes, dropping in to iconic destination restaurants and country pubs.

Peppermint Ridge Farm: guided tour of the native food garden in Tynong North followed by a meal in the cafe; workshops for native food growing and organic vegetable growing

Tour Local: visit Southern Gippsland’s finest farm gates, breweries, wineries, distilleries and more… all interspersed with stretches of stunning dairy-country scenes and ocean views.

Venture Out: Ride & Dine or Paddle & Dine tours include bike or kayak hire for self-guided journeys paired with dining experiences

Wyanga Park Winery Cruise: cruise departs Lakes Entrance to Wyanga Park Winery for lunch at the cafe and winery tastings

Specialty Wine Tours: tour of West and Central Gippsland wineries including Cannibal Creek, Brandy Creek, Narkoojee, and Ripplebrook Winery.