2019 Farm to Fine DiningCentral Highlands Development Corporation

Fourth Annual Central Highlands Regional Produce Showcase

Grown in the Central Highlandsgrowninthecentralhighlands.com.au

Our region is home to fabulous producers of table grapes, citrus, beef, grains and legumes, figs, garlic, potatoes and much, much more. Launched in 2019, Grown in the Central Highlands is the one stop shop to satisfy your hunger for authentic, seasonally-available food and fibre products, and for our farmers to showcase

their quality produce.

This is a free resource provided for Central Highlands producers, consumers and retailers and proudly supported by CHDC and the

Local Buying Foundation.

The Central Highlands Development Corporation is a proud partner of the Queensland Government’s #eatqld campaign.

Designed by Blackbird Chefs Anthony Donaldson & Lyndon Tyers, this menu features produce sourced from the Central Highlands (as highlighted).

BREAD & BUTTER Heritage Wheat Breadrolls

CANAPÉSFair Dinkum Meats Pigs in Blankets

AACo Wagyu Bresaola & Celeriac CrostiniSweetcorn Blinis with Smoked Salmon Mousse &

M.A.D. Greens Red Radish Microgreens

ENTRÉE (alternate drop)Pumpkin Gnocchi, Pumpkin Hummus, Brown Butter, Fried Chickpeas &

M.A.D Greens Sunflower MicrogreensCQ Golden Pig Terrine, Red Wine Steeped Figs & Toasted Sourdough

MAIN COURSE (alternate drop)Nogoa Dorper Lamb, Roasted Onions, Harissa, Pomegranate & Sumac

Five Founders Grain Fed Beef Tenderloin, Yorkshire Pudding, Caramelised Onion & Red Pepper

DESSERT (alternate drop)2PH Citrus Eton Mess, Coconut Mousse & Mandarin Leaf Meringue

Caramelised Popped Radicle Seeds Sorghum, Peanuts & Pacific Gold Macadamia Ice Cream Sundae with Warm Sorghum Caramel

BEVERAGES2017 Cape Mentelle Sauvignon Blanc | Semillon, Margaret River, WA

2016 Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River, WA2017 Quartz Reef Pinot Gris, Central Otago, NZ

2016 Toolangi Chardonnay, Yarra Valley, VIC2016 SC Pannell

Grenache | Shiraz | Touriga, McLaren Vale, SACampbells Liquid Gold Classic Topaque, Rutherglen, VIC

Selection of beer, soft drinks, sparkling & still waterTea & coffee

Menu

M.A.D. GreensEMERALD

M.A.D. Greens specialises in healthy, flavoursome, Micro Activated Dynamic baby and leafy greens which are supplied fresh to the community.

17-year-old founder Digby Dunbar pitched his winning concept of growing micro greens at HACKCQ in 2018, and has progressively developed the business with this family while balancing his final year of secondary school studies. The produce is grown in controlled conditions inside shipping containers and sold to restaurants and cafés in Emerald. M.A.D. Greens believes that by using exceptional ingredients, their consumers will be healthier and happier. Produce that may have been travelling for up to

5 days is now harvested and in the restaurant within hours.

M.A.D. Greens continues to consider innovative ways to deal with regional environment conditions and are investigating controlled climates. The company is looking to diversify production and happy to hear from

customers about what they may like to see on their plate.

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We are excited to be helping promote the Central Highlands, showing that small cropping has a big future in our region and the rest of the world. Now that’s MAD!

Digby DunbarCEO, M.A.D. Greens

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The combination of our unique land and cattle herd, built up over almost 200 years, plus the experience of our people creates the heart of AACo. It’s magical and something no one else can do.

Hugh KillenManaging Director & CEO, AACo

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Australian Agricultural Company (AACo)

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The Australian Agricultural Company is in many ways the quintessential Australian story – a cattle company founded in 1824 that has grown to become Australia’s largest integrated beef and cattle producer. It is the oldest continuously operating company in Australia. AACo manages around half a million head of cattle at its stations, feedlots and farming operations, which are spread across pristine outback in Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Central Highlands is a strategic location for the AACo supply chain, in breeding and growing, background and finishing cattle; and for growing grains and

fodder crops to support cattle production.

AACo now has one of the largest Wagyu herds in the world. Our cattle are born wild, free to roam and raised on huge tracts of native Mitchell grass, then finished at the Goonoo Feedlot, Comet on propriety grain blends that include wheat, sorghum and molasses. AACo beef is served at some of the world’s finest restaurants. Rich marbling throughout the cut, delivers a signature juicy

tenderness that offers a timeless experience, every time.

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CQ Golden PigsPENROSE STATION, VIA ROLLESTON

With years of experience breeding and growing wagyu beef cattle and with the knowledge of meat quality attributes derived from the family’s wagyu business, Baden and Sheena Crittle decided to seek the same superior meat qualities for a pig that would be suitable for the Central Queensland environment. Started in 2016, CQ Golden Pigs has focused on improving the genetic potential of their pigs by developing a four-way cross from commercial Landrace/Large white/Duroc lines combined with

high-marbling Berkshire heritage pigs.

CQ Golden Pigs are free-range, and ethically raised on natural pastures and grain. Baden and Sheena partner with Piggy in the Middle, a certified free-range farm with on-farm accredited Butcher House operated by her brother Mason Mayne and cousin Dean Mayne’s families. This partnership

supplies CQ Golden Pigs with a true farm-to-plate pathway.

What started as a small project to cross breed pigs and share quality pasture-raised pork with family and friends has evolved into a passion to

create a superior breed of pig with exceptional eating quality.

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Our passion is to breed and ethically raise a superior pig with exceptional eating quality suitable for the Central Queensland environment.

Baden CrittleOwner, CQ Golden Pigs

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Emerald IGAEMERALD

Operating continuously for more than 40 years, Emerald IGA is one of 1400 independently-owned IGA stores across Australia. Emerald IGA proudly supports local producers by stocking a range of fresh fruit, vegetables,

bakery and meat products from the region.

Emerald IGA has fi rst-hand experience that Central Highlands customers have two priorities when shopping; fi rstly that the products are Australian grown and secondly, Locally Grown. This gives shoppers confi dence that what they are buying is authentic, seasonal and fresh, and that they are

supporting businesses who operate from their community.

In addition to their commitment to sourcing local goods from small and large producers, IGA Emerald cater for people with special dietary needs in the community and aims to provide personal service with a diff erence.

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We welcome farm-fresh produce and want to showcase our local producers – and we can do it because we’re independent.

Julie Arthur-EdwardsManager, Emerald IGA

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Water2019 marks another dry year for the Central Highlands region; after the area south of the Capricorn Highway was drought declared in May, the full Local Government

Area was declared on the 3rd of June.

The intermittent and reduced rainfall has emphasised the incredible asset in the Central Highlands that is the Fairbairn Dam, which continues to support the billion-

dollar agricultural industries from the region.

Established in 1968, the Fairbairn Dam is the second largest water storage in Queensland with a capacity of 1,301,000 Megalitres (ML). It supplies water to the Nogoa-Mackenzie Water Supply Scheme (WSS) which is now locally-owned and

operated by the Fairbairn Irrigation Network from 1 July 2019.

The scheme provides agricultural irrigators, mining and urban water users of the Central Highlands with secure, reliable water allocations.

2019 marks 20 years since the Nogoa-Mackenzie WSS water allocation security objectives have been regulated by the Queensland Government ensuring adequate environmental flows, confidence in water markets and the supply of water. This has supported the strong growth of high value irrigated crops such as

citrus, table grapes and macadamia.

The recorded annual Announced Allocation for the 10 year period from 1988-89 demonstrates the high reliability and security of water in the region even during

periods of extended dry conditions:

• 100 per cent every year for High Priority; and • 100 per cent for Medium Priority for every year bar 1998-99 (90 per cent)

and 2006-07 (80 per cent).

In March, Fairbairn Dam levels dropped to below twelve per cent triggering Level 2 restrictions for the urban communities. A total of 180ml rainfall received at the end of March and April demonstrated the resilience of the system; restrictions have been lifted and the Dam capacity now sits at 20% or 264,259 ML at the end of June. (This is still greater than the water currently held in other Queensland water supply scheme storages with only four exceptions: the Burdekin Falls Dam, Tinaroo

Falls Dam, Fred Haigh Dam, Bundaberg and the Peter Faust Dam, Proserpine.)

Our farming communities continue to defy the dry with best practice cropping techniques and reduced stocking rates, celebrating with events such as the Agricultural Shows, and preparing infrastructure and their businesses for the return

to normal seasons.

Five Founders BeefCUNGELELLA

The North Australian Pastoral Company (NAPCo) was founded by fi ve partners in 1877, and today is one of Australia’s oldest and largest

beef and cattle producers.

With over 200,000 head of cattle and 14 properties that span 6.1 million hectares across Queensland and Northern Territory, our herd are born and bred spending their whole lives in our care. Cattle are ethically raised and free to roam fertile forest friendly pastures, grain assisted for the last 90 days to produce a top-quality, tender and

consistently delicious product.

We’ve spent more than 140 years crafting the fi nest quality beef, and today NAPCo continue to make history, launching our new branded

beef, Five founders

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We know our original fi ve founders would be delighted to discover the company they started continues to forge a reputation for innovative thinking, superior quality and animal welfare.

Phil CumminsCEO, NAPCo

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Nogoa DorpersEMERALD

Sustainable farming and a deep pride in the Central Highlands are at the heart of this family-run Dorper Sheep stud in Central Queensland. Peter and Kim Cheal’s enterprise produces quality commercial and stud stock, and their Lamb-in-a-Box has become a signature product since its launch

just two years ago.

This unique paddock-to-plate offering was inspired by a desire to give consumers a product that is local and fresh. Today, demand is so strong that there’s a customer waiting list for the tasty Dorper Lamb, raised ethically in free-range paddocks. Lamb-in-a-Box has cemented Nogoa Dorpers’

reputation for premium quality lamb grown in the Central Highlands.

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We love that our customers come back time and time again. We feel blessed to be a part of feeding our local community.

Peter ChealOwner, Nogoa Dorpers

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Radicle Seeds & Murphy Farming

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Radicle Seeds Australia specialises in breeding exceptional cultivars that meet the needs of growers and end users. A grower-owned company based in the Central Highlands, it is committed to supplying Australian farmers with quality seed and strong varieties with regional adaptation.

Having brought two grain sorghum hybrids to market, Radicle Seeds Australia now has several grain and forage sorghums, white sorghums and highly digestible brown midrib (BMR) corn hybrids for forage and silage in the breeding pipeline for release in the next few years. The genetic material developed by the company also includes numerous

unique characteristics from a milling perspective.

Through Murphy Farming, Paul Murphy also supplies organic and sustainable ancient and heritage wheat varieties such as Foster to the Wholegrain Milling Company. Wholegrain Milling Company stone mills its grain products which gives artisan bakers and bread lovers an organic

wheat flour that has a distinctive taste and superior baking properties.

Wheat produced in the Central Highlands region is a crucial factor in maintaining the highest quality flour as demanded by the best artisan

bakers in Australia.

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Our aim is to produce hybrid seed that ‘really fits’ – meeting the needs of the grower, processor and consumer.

Paul Murphy CEO, Radicle Seeds

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Unique products and a driven focus on “right fruit, right box, right time” to ensure quality, makes 2PH one of the well-recognised citrus brands in Australia and Asia.

Bindi PresslerCo-Owner, 2PH Farms

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2PH is a citrus market leader that has grown from a small family concern into one of the largest privately-owned mandarin orchards in the Southern Hemisphere. The company has more than 600 hectares of citrus, with in excess of 300,000 productive trees and 220 hectares under table grapes.

The orchards are supported by world-class automated citrus and table grape packaging facilities. The company invests in a comprehensive on-farm research and development program to meet specific consumer demand, cultivating new citrus varieties and developing unique ‘seedless’

produce with better colour and taste.

The breeding program produced Australia’s first commercial ‘Eureka’ seedless lemon. ‘Taylor Lee’ a large full flavoured mandarin, the ‘Phoenix’ a seedless Murcott and most recently ‘Amorette’ also a seedless mandarin. Both ‘Phoenix’ and ‘Amorette’ are available only at Woolworths in Australia

and are exported all over the world.

2PH develops products which are unique to the company and continue to grow demand.

Moving forward, 2PH is investing in additional plantings, production facility upgrades and expansion while remaining focussed on quality.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

Mayor Kerry Hayes, Chairman Sandra Hobbs, General Manager

Liz Alexander, Agribusiness Development Coordinator

Central Highlands Development Corporation Postal Address: PO Box 1425, Emerald Qld 4720

Office Address: 31 Ruby Street, Emerald Qld 4720 T: 07 4982 4386 F: 07 4982 4068

E: ealexander@chdc.com.au www.chdc.com.au

Images courtesy of 2PH, AACo., CQ Golden Pigs, NAPCO, Nogoa Dorpers, Queensland Government.

2019 Farm to Fine Dining