Learn, eat and enjoy at Fat Pig Farm!

You too, can get involved and be a part of the Fat Pig Farm clan as Matthew Evans and his wife Sadie now open their doors to the public and share in the farming and feasting fun with brand-new cooking classes on-site.

Make your own yoghurt flatbreads at Fat Pig Farm. Source: Instagram

In beautiful country Tasmania, about 60 minutes south of Hobart, you’ll find Fat Pig Farm. This is a working family farm run by chef Matthew Evans and his wife Sadie Chrestman. They live here, grow their own produce and raise their own livestock, and now they are looking to share it all as they open bookings for others to take part in the learning and feasting of their farm.  

Matthew and Sadie will be sharing their love of food and local produce through their brand-new restaurant as well as their cooking classes, which will be hosted on the property. The terrific trio from Gourmet Farmer - Matthew Evans, Nick Haddow and Ross O'Meara - are making a cooking comeback to Fat Pig Farm as each of them will run their own regular cooking classes and share all their skills along the way. As part of each class take a tour of the farm, as every week, every month, every crop is different from the last and you get to be an integral part of the harvesting, and of course the cooking process. So expect to get hands-on in a warm and very inviting space - a space that has a four-metre long island bench, the perfect place to demonstrate during each class.

This is one farm that is conjuring up some excitement, as well as some deliciousness. 

 

Here are the first three classes on offer - take your pick!

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1. Milk.made: cheesemaking

Alchemist and cheesemaker Nick Haddow, from Bruny Island Cheese, will introduce you to the wonder of making your own cheese (and other stuff out of milk), followed by a farmhouse feast.

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2. Sausages with the master

One of Fat Pig’s besties, Ross, who many may recognise from Gourmet Farmer, brings his incomparable butchery skills to this sausage-making class, followed by a long, leisurely farmhouse feast cooked by Ross and Matthew.

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3. Fired by wood

The team will light the commercial-grade wood oven and teach you about wood, how to burn it and what to cook on it over this one-day course, which finishes, as usual, at the long farmhouse table for a shared meal like no other.

For more information on Fat Pig Farm or on how to sign up to any of these cooking workshops visit the website here. The brand-new series of Gourmet Farmer starts Thursday August 3 at 8pm on SBS. Visit the Gourmet Farmer program page for recipes and to find out more about the show.

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