Program Information Session for Farmers and Producers

YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AN INFORMATION SESSION FOR PRODUCERS AND FARMERS

Hear from speakers Rose Wright, founder and Managing Director of Regionality Pty Ltd and Kay Tommerup, Tommerup's Dairy Farm to learn about the opportunities to diversify and innovate your farm and create new income streams by creating closer connections with consumers.

• Investigate ideas for diversification or value-adding
• Explore options for leveraging your farm assets and/or current production
• Develop new pathways to market
• Tap into a booming visitor economy

Rose is a passionate and highly respected agri-food and agritourism innovator with industry leading experience in business strategy and cluster facilitation. As a thought leader in agri and culinary tourism and regional food systems. Rose has pioneered new approaches in the development and implementation of farm to plate value chain development and helped transform agricultural regions into food destinations.

A dairy farmer in the Scenic Rim, South East Queensland. She and her husband Dave, have transformed their 6th generation farm through agritourism and innovation. With their son Harry, now joining the family business, they are embarking on a journey of regeneration for their land and their farm business model. Kay attributes their confidence to embrace change and diversifying to their move into agritourism over 15 years ago, bringing with it a change in mindset and renewed belief that small family farms play an important role in the agricultural landscape of the future.

A passionate advocate for agritourism and agriculture, Kay currently sits on the board of eastAUSmilk, as Vice President of Queensland Farmers Federation, and President of Agritourism Queensland. Believing that agritourism provides options for farmers to overcome the challenges that they face on a daily basis. Kay continues to campaign for regulatory change and access to capacity building resources allowing farmers to more easily diversify and secure the future of their farm business.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

City of Moreton Bay has partnered with highly regarded agri-food and culinary tourism experts Regionality, to offer an exclusive program for Moreton Bay. Beyond the Farm Gate will run throughout 2025 across two capacity building programs.

• Regionality’s Incubator Program will help participants to investigate and develop their agritourism or agri-innovation concept, followed by
• Regionality’s Accelerator program to help bring the new or re-developed concepts to life, by testing and trialling the viability through targeted opportunities.

Both programs will arm participating commercial and small-scale farmers with the tools to develop sustainable agritourism businesses, designed to add value to their primary production or create a new pathway to market, whilst gaining a deeper understanding of agritourism and its benefits.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Open to farmers, primary producers, artisan producers, lifestyle farmers and those working in cottage industries operating in City of Moreton Bay Local Government Area. Whether you’ve got a really clear innovation or value-adding idea that you want to bring to life or you just simply want to know more about the farm-to-plate and agritourism opportunities, don’t hesitate to come along, and we will help explore whether this program is right for you and your business.

*Interested to learn more but can’t make it? Please send us an email at info@regionality.com.au.