Phillip Island Food and Nature Trails

 

Philip Island Food and Nature Trails

 

Some of the country's most breathtaking scenery and fresh native produce can be discovered on Phillip Island, a short 90 minute drive from Melbourne. Rhyll Trout & Bush Tucker Farm, nestled amongst the Island's tranquil Australian bush land, has launched three new guided bush tucker tours for spring and summer, allowing visitors to explore the environment, forage for food and indulge in the area's  native tastes and flavours. The new Bush Tucker Tour, Bush Tea Tour and Bush Spinach Tour each offer delicious, hands-on and enriching experiences for visitors wanting to discover the wonderful native produce and history of the region.

Bush Tucker Tour


A friendly and informative guide leads visitors along the -Bush Tucker Trail' discovering thousands of indigenous food plants, learning about their history and modern uses. Tours are customized depending on the size and special interest of the group allowing food foragers to see, smell, touch and taste different produce on each visit.

Duration: 30 to 45 minutes

Cost: $14 per person

Minimum of four people per tour



Bush Tea Tour


The bush tucker trail is rich in native tea plants with distinctive Australian flavours.  On the Bush Tea Tour, visitors are guided through the trail as they identify and pick their own native mint, lemon bottlebrush and Cape Barren teas.  Back in the farmhouse café, the teas are brewed and enjoyed alone, or as part of a native bush Devonshire Tea with wattle seed scones and strawberry gum jam.

Duration: 60 minutes

Cost: $13 per adult and $11 per child for the Bush Tea Tour

$18 per adult and $16 per child including Bush Devonshire Tea of wattle seed scones and strawberry gum jam

Minimum of four people per tour

Bush Spinach Tour
Visitors find and pick their own native spinach from the bush land plantation and have it prepared into a delicious gourmet lunch at the farmhouse café while they explore the rest of the trail and Rainbow Trout Lake.

The spinach harvests can be created into a native tasting plate of

Braised native spinach with garlic and ginger

Bush Tucker Relish

Local sour dough bread

Or a hearty home cooked meal of

Fresh picked native spinach sautéed with garlic and ginger

Homemade quiche of native spinach and feta, or smoked trout and capsicum

Bush Tucker Relish

Fresh garden salad

Duration: 90 minutes

Cost: $13 per adult and $11 per child (with the bush tucker tasting plate)

$23 per adult and $21 per child (with the bush tucker meal)

Minimum of four people per tour



Rhyll Trout & Bush Tucker Farm also offers guided fishing experiences where visitors can catch their own rainbow trout from the picturesque, tree-lined lake and have it transformed into the freshest of lunches by the award-winning farmhouse chefs.  The farmhouse café also serves lovingly home-cooked meals featuring rainbow trout and bush tucker produce, native Devonshire Tea with jumbo wattle-seed scones or muffins and indulgent desserts of local lemon myrtle tart, white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake or homemade carrot cake.



For those wanting to take a piece of the Island home with them, the farmhouse food store stocks Gippsland cheeses, breads and fresh eggs as well as jams, chutneys, marinades, bush spices and native tea blends with ingredients sourced from the bush tucker farm plantation, fruit orchard and vegie patch.

For more information visit www.rhylltroutandbushtucker.com.au or call (03) 5956 9255.