ACTIVITIES

Want to understand the best cuts of meat for your favourite dishes and fancy using your butchery skills at home? This is the ideal class for you! Our chefs will demonstrate how to break down a full lamb carcass and explain the various cuts of lamb and from what part of the animal each product comes. You will do “hands on” boning of a chicken and breaking it into various cuts before marinating with herbs from our kitchen garden.

We will show you everything about bratwurst sausage making; from the best cuts of meat to use, how to grind meat, herbs and seasonings to use and how to fill natural sausage casings through to the different ways to cook sausages. You will use spices and fresh herbs from our garden to individually season your own batch of sausages.

Green Olive at Red Hill is a whole farm experience. We grow olives, grapes, herbs and veggies, raise sheep, chooks and pigs, and use fresh produce from local farmers to create a range of tapas and wines you’ll love!

Our Matching Food and Wine Experience enables you to enjoy Green Olive at Red Hill produce with matching Estate Grown wines. We will guide you through a tasting of 5 wines matched with 5 bite-size tapas dishes especially created to walk your tastebuds around our property. This is the perfect opportunity to enjoy a small taste of the Peninsula!

Our cooking course on the Mornington Peninsula covers everything pasta; such as types of flour used in pasta dough making, equipment you will need and ingredients used in filled pasta’s such as tortellini. You’ll learn to mix the ingredients and then knead, rest, roll and cut the dough to shape. Hands on, step by step class which will also cover pasta fillings that you can hand pick from our farm garden. You will also gain knowledge about extra virgin olive oil and how to best use this great ingredient in your pasta and other cooking.

Learn the secrets to making the perfect pizza dough as well as the importance of yeast and using the right woodfired toppings. Tour the kitchen garden, picking your own herbs, leaves and vegetables for your own individual pizza. Our pizza making class will teach you how to use a pizza oven, provide you with baking tips, and show you what wood and equipment to use to make the perfect woodfired pizza. You will also perfect the finishing and dressing of your pizza to ensure you have the most delicious pizza to serve.

Green Olive at Red Hill is a whole farm experience. We grow olives, grapes, herbs and veggies, raise sheep, chooks and pigs as well as use fresh produce from local farmers to create a range of tapas and wine you’ll love!

Enjoy a guided tour of of our farm learning about our biological approach to farming and our paddock to plate food production. You will also learn about the water, waste and energy aspects of the properties sustainability program.

After the tour you can sit down, admire the view of the vineyard, the kitchen garden and the ducks on the dam whilst enjoying a selection of seasonal farm grown tapas dishes with a glass of estate grown wine. It will certainly be farm experience to remember.