It’s been over a decade that we’ve been welcoming Brigidine College students from Randwick in Sydney to our region for their HSC field trips. Each year, in the words of the Pretenders, some things change, some stay the same.

This year’s students are here to enhance their Food Nutrition & Hospitality syllabi with a stay that spans three days out exploring our Mid Lachlan region.

Our theme for this year’s Hospitality students was ‘Food Builds Community‘ and included a trip to Montrose House in Canowindra, a shift at Canowindra Connections Food Basket & Community Kitchen plus a chance for students to cook for the group on one of our local organic farms.

The Food Technology students theme was ‘Good Soil, Good Food’ focusing on how our grain, beef, lamb, olive, fig and grape producers care for the soil and how their management decisions shape their foods nutritional content, taste and smell.

We started with a greeting from Cowra Deputy Mayor Nikki Kiss before going on to visit seven farm-based enterprises & four local food & community focused businesses before waving our goodbyes.

We’ve so many interesting and diverse farms out here in the Central West, it’s a great place to bring the syllabus to life.

Good luck with your HSC class of 2025/26 & hope to see some more students from Brigidine next year!