Sarau Festival

Creative and skilled Jester House owner and chef Steve Richards has agreed to share some of his recipes using good local produce (including blackcurrants). Be in the audience in the function room at 5pm or 6pm to watch him cook and share his ideas.

Interest is hotting up in the Barkers of Geraldine Cooking Competitions! Bring along your Blackcurrant cakes, muffins, desserts, juices, wines, jams, sauces and preserves to Sarau Festival.  Special category for Children’s entries sponsored by Food  Management (NZ) Ltd.  No need to register,...

Making a scarecrow is a fun way to dress up the garden and it may even scare off those pesky bird buddies.  Blackcurrant growers always lose some of their crop to birds so they would like to see lots more scarecrows about the district. Download these handy hints to help make a great scarecrow! Click...

We need your help! If you can offer assistance with any of the following we would love to hear from you. This is where we need you: Helpers on Saturday 30 January at 9am to set up the grounds Helpers on Sunday 31 January to help with the running of the festival Helpers on Monday 1 February at 9am to...

A huge thank you to local photographer Libby Bibby for a wonderful visual record of Sarau Festival 2009. Don’t worry if you missed this year’s event, as Libby has captured all the best moments! If you were there, then chances are you are here in the gallery! Enjoy! [Show as...

Copies of the recipe book are now available for purchase from Moutere Gold in Upper Moutere, and Mapua Country Trading Co. in Mapua.  Hurry – get yours while stocks last!  With 42 fabulous ways to serve healthy, delicious blackcurrants, these books make excellent gifts.  No cook should be without...

The Mighty Blackcurrant Recipe Book has been compiled especially for the Sarau Festival by festival founder and long time blackcurrant grower Jenny Leith. Recipes have come from renowned chefs, blackcurrant growers, and members of this community who willingly contributed their culinary expertise and...

We need YOU to help make this festival even brighter and more successful than the first one. If you can walk, stand or sit, you can help! Traffic management, runners, gate attendants, setting up on the day, you name it, we need it! We also need lots of help on Saturday 31st from 11am and on Monday Feb...

The taste and versatility of blackcurrants will be a star attraction at the forthcoming Sarau Blackcurrant Festival.  The culinary resurgence of this super-food, already well known for its health and nutrition properties, can only add to the growing recognition that blackcurrants have an important role...

Following the success of the bike race at the 2008 Sarau Festival, another great mountain bike race/ride will start and finish at the Sarau Festival venue. NRG have put their hands up as sponsors of the race/ride, providing drinks for all riders.  Local farmers have come in behind this festival and...