We’re thrilled to announce the next chapter in our Watershed Supper Series in collaboration with Chef Isabel Sykes.

This season, join us at Watershed to celebrate local food and community. Our special event series showcases high-quality, nutritious, and sustainably sourced ingredients, while promoting conversations around community, building a culture of care, and celebrating local producers. Each event fosters strong connections through place-based sharing.

Chef Isabel Sykes, has crafted a menu with produce from Tasmanian Buffalo & Seabrook Valley Farm

Starter - Buffalo Mantu - Afghan dumplings, yellow Dahl, fermented chilli

Main - Buffalo lemongrass meatballs Buffalo brisket rendang Cabbage and herb salad Lime leaf rice

Dessert - Poached pear, ginger cake, ginger caramel

Tasmanian Buffalo became Tasmania's first commercial herd in 1997. Their buffalo products are derived from purely grass fed animals on the rolling hills of Preston. Buffalo meat is very low in fat and high in iron, their animals are holistically bred and raised with no chemicals.

Joining us for conversations is Christina Giudici from The New Black Biochar.

Christina is an agricultural scientist with a keen interest in soil biology and complex systems approaches to landscape function restoration. She started FIMBY (Food In My Back Yard) with a friend in 2008, working alongside home gardeners to help them grow their own food.

Alongside FIMBY, she works in environmental permitting and construction management for large scale renewable energy projects around Australia and in Tasmania. Over the last few years she has been putting her energy into a startup business called The New Black Biochar - making biochar from organic waste streams, and developing the market for biochar in horticulture, agriculture, environmental remediation and green building materials.

Christina will invite us to explore how the miracle of photosynthesis, creating biomass out of thin air, feeds the soil microbial population, and keeps us all alive.

Christina is happy to bring biochar to the event for people who would like to purchase some via The New Black Biochar web shop.

Youth Engagement at Watershed: Central to our mission is engaging young people in these conversations. Through workshops in hospitality, menu design, front-of-house operations, and conversational skills, led by BighART and Isabel, youth gain valuable experience and real-life skills to cultivate a passion for community involvement.

See you at the table!

Doors - 6.15pm

Dinner - 6.30pm

Duration - 1.5hrs

This event is made possible by FRRR funding & partnerships with Wynyard High School and First foods.