Bendigo City and region of Gastronomy – Celebrating our region's culture and creativity

A Creative Region

Greater Bendigo embraces the cultural and creative industries as fundamental to our City’s future liveability, economy, social cohesions, health and well-being. We are a community that inspires a culture of creativity, activates our spaces, nurtures and supports talent, champions inclusiveness, showcasing the stories of our rich culture, our Traditional Owners and First Nations to the world.

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Bendigo, A Place Full of Gastronomic History

It is no surprise that Bendigo was designated Australia’s first UNESCO Creative City and Region of Gastronomy in 2019. Our gastronomy story is about growing, sourcing, cooking and sharing food. It is how our culture and heritage is represented and shared through what we eat, drink, the places we share meals, and the memories we […]

Tastes of Harcourt

Only a few years ago, Harcourt was a drive-through town on the Calder Highway enroute to Bendigo. Best known for its apples, roadside stalls – some private, some commercial – dotted the highway, with huts full of delicious, juicy, fresh-from-the-farm apples of multiple varieties, paid for via the good ol’ honesty system. Fast forward to […]

Bendigo is going to Hollywood!

Some of our region’s best produce will have a starring role in this year’s G’Day USA Gala event, showcasing Bendigo and central Victoria as Australia’s first UNESCO Creative City and Region of Gastronomy. The G’Day USA Gala includes a dinner for 460 guests, who will all receive a Bendigo Gastronomy VIP artisan gift bag featuring […]

A School Putting Gastronomy Front and Centre

As you walk through the doors of Kaliana, you are met with a quiet hive of activity. In particular, the canteen staff are hard at work in readiness for lunch service. The difference in this canteen is that it’s not volunteer parents preparing the food, instead, it’s the kids doing all the work. As is […]

Healthy Landscapes – Short Course Kicks Off.

On Friday, September 9, 2022, the Healthy Landscapes program kicked off the first day of the Holistic Grazing Management Course. I joined a new group of engaged, enthusiastic and intrepid food and fibre producers from across Macedon Ranges, Hepburn Shire and the City of Greater Bendigo, coming together to learn about how principles of regenerative […]

How do we Eat Djaara Country Healthy?

Authors: Will Tait and Jodi Newcombe So here we are, bringing this five-part blog series to a close. In our opening blog we described how our collective – the Carbon Arts team in collaboration with Dja Dja Wurrung woman Bec Phillips – is motivated by the question: “How do we eat Djaara Country healthy?” We […]