Little Food Festival
The Little Food Festival is Australia’s first food festival created especially for kids. A free community event, it promotes health, wellbeing and sustainability education, focused on the food system.
During the April 2025 school holidays, kids will roll up their sleeves to plant seedlings, dive into the world of bush food, unleash their creativity with craft, master the art of preparing nutritious meals and more!
For more information visit: https://www.littlefoodfestival.com/
Main Stage
The Main Stage show will be packed with fun and engaging activities to captivate kids with the wonderful world of food education. Stay tuned, the stage schedule will be announced soon!
AUSLAN Stage Left will be interpreting day one of the stage program.
Activities and Workshops
The festival is made up of activities and workshops that celebrate each stage of the food system. At the Little Food Festival, kids can roll up their sleeves to plant seedlings, dive into the world of bush food, unleash their creativity in craft activities, master the art of preparing nutritious meals and more!
Check out the confirmed activities and workshops below that will be available at the festival. More amazing activations over the coming weeks will be added.
- Plant a lettuce, parsley or broccoli seedling with Bunnings to take home
- Play ‘What’s in the box’ with United African Farm
- Visit the OzHarvest van and discover what food sees before it sees you
- Learn about the different journey your produce takes when it gets sold locally, compared to at a supermarket with Farm My School
- Visit the Little Mini Market with Queen’s Harvest
- Taste delicious fruit and veg with A Better Choice initiative
- Make a jar of pickles to take home with Dillicious Pickles
- Whip up a tasty treat with Free to Feed
- Try some yummy carisma potatoes, with thanks to Mitolo Family Farms
- Taste locally-made cheese with Georgio’s Artisanal Cheese
- Taste some yummy apple varieties including everyone’s favourite, the Jazz apple, with Montage Farms
- Take a look under the microscope to discover just what fruits and vegetables are made of with the CSIRO
- Get chatting by playing the Table Talk game with Monash University
- Hop on a Smoothie Bike to turn rescued bananas from OzHarvest into delicious smoothies
- Be a soil detective with CERES school of nature and climate! You’ll learn what makes soil healthy and view wiggly worms in a worm farm
- Play the ugly food game with Monash University to discover why ‘ugly’ fruits and veggies help us cut down on food waste
- Learn about the magic of mushrooms with Bellarine Fungi
Supporting Areas
Quiet Zones
The Little Food Library presented by Melbourne Libraries. Sit down to read a book and listen in to a story time reading from Melbourne Libraries wonderful children’s librarians
AIA Australia Colouring Zone
Complete some creative colouring with AIA’s large colouring cubes
Reflection Zone
What action will you take after your fun day at the Little Food Festival? Visit the reflection zone to test your knowledge of food systems with Monash University
Food Trucks
Healthy, social enterprise food trucks, to be announced soon.
NGV Kids: My Favourite Food
Are you hungry to draw? Drop by The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia and draw your favourite food with us.
Thanks to the closed loop system from Green My Plate, we are proud to say the upcoming Little Food Festival will be a low waste event. All food vendors will be serving up their delicious food on the reusable Green My Plate plates and bowls which you then simply place into the pink bins within the venue. The team from Green My Plate will be continuously collecting the reusable plates and co to then wash and recirculate, leaving a cleaner footprint, and diverting single-use food packaging from landfill.
The process is simple. Simply head to your choice of food vendor, order up, then place your reusable plate in the pink bin.
The plates will be reused over and over at events across Victoria. We encourage and thank everyone for doing their part and assisting us with making dishes, not waste.
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