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Get ready for two action-packed days of fun. Explore our six zones for hands-on activities.

**Bunnings:** Get your hands dirty planting a winter harvest.
**Rooftop Bees:** Set off on a scavenger hunt to learn all about the secret life of bees.
**Koorie Heritage Trust:** Learn about the cultural significance of the Murnong Yam Daisy with Indigenous artists.

**Farm My School and Monash University:** Join in on the Farm Dash, a fast-paced game of two farm journeys.

**A Better Choice!:** Grab a basket and step into the Little Food Market.
**Angharad Neal-Williams:** Create a seasonal food calendar by matching fruits and veggies to where they grow.
**You’re no food fool:** Become a detective. Search ingredient lists to find the real foods hiding.

**National Nutrition Foundation:** Pack a balanced lunch to fuel learning and growing.
**Common Ground Project:** Learn to make cordial using delicious Australian native ingredients.
**Killara Foundation:** Touch, taste and smell indigenous bush food.
**Veggies First!:** Let’s get creative. Build fun creatures like cucumber caterpillars while learning how vegetables grow.
**Ubuntu Theatre Company:** Learn how vegetables can give us safe dye for fabric and food.

**Jazz Apples:** Do an apple taste test and learn what makes them unique with Montague Farms.
**Chobani:** Spin, mix and invent! Kids can explore fun ways to enjoy yoghurt and create their own flavour.
**Oral Health Victoria:** Create fruit and veggie rainbows. Learn about how eating a variety of different coloured food can help our teeth.
**Lunchbox Heroes:** Play what’s in the box with Rainbow Rae.
**United African Farm:** Learn about fruit and vegetables from the African diaspora.

**CERES School of Nature & Climate:** Learn about healthy soil, food waste, and our tiny but mighty friends – worms.
**Play for Good:** Be a soil scientist – spin soil to nd compost critters!
**Dillicious Pickles:** Want to reduce your food waste? Learn how to do it in the yummiest way possible.

More to explore

**Cooking with Carisma:** Try delicious Carisma potatoes at the baked potato food truck.
**Smoothie Bikes:** Jump on a smoothie bike and create your very own smoothie!
**Little Food Library:** Relax and recharge. A selection of books to spark curiosity about food and nature will be on offer.

**Voice Lab by Polyglot Theatre:** A safe space for sharing thoughts and reflection, the Voice Lab encourages self- expression in a supportive environment.
**Face painting:** Fun fruit and vegetable themed face painting with Fairy Mary.
**Indigenous art:** Drop in on Indigenous artist Stan Dryden as he creates an artwork especially for the Little Food Festival.
**Plus, explore what food your body needs to feel strong and play your best on the sporting pitch with AIA Australia.**

In the spirit of reconciliation we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Victoria and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

We acknowledge the land we work, live and eat on always has been, and always will be, Aboriginal Land.

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