Chairman's Column G’day all. Cheers, From the Paddock - Quercus is for Hire Drone image of Function Centre and Accommodation block taken by Caretaker - Jade Hall. Big event? Small event? Quercus Park has an area to suit your occasion! From a fully equipped Function Centre and kitchen to a purpose-built Equine Arena – and everything in between, we have the unique, relaxing venue for you. Our site is only 20kms out of Launceston, has ample parking space, large sheds and newly completed accommodation and ablution block for the overnighters. Please contact Rural Youth Tasmania Head Office for our Site Hire Package and our full list of offerings on (03) 6331-6154 or admin@ruralyouth.com.au. We can work with you to make your event a fabulous success! The latest from the Event DeskPaddock planning is in full swing and we are very busy checking all the applications coming in. With only 14 days to go before applications close, we encourage you to submit your application today! Don't forget to head to our website to submit your application! Agfest Committee Spotlight - Caine Evans Name: Caine Evans Area of the State where you live: White Beach on the Tasman Peninsula Agfest Committee title: Vice Chairman Brief description of your Committee role: The Vice Chairman role is so important in that you support the Chairman and his or her committee to help deliver Agfest for our patrons and exhibitors. It’s a role that sees you maintain a positive outlook within volunteers and the leadership team. Another section of the portfolio also sees you oversee all the community based groups that support Rural Youth in helping deliver Agfest such as rubbish collection, ticket gates the list goes on Share a snapshot of your Agfest / Rural Youth history: I came to Rural Youth rather later than I should of really through my wife who was State President at the time. After signing up I took on the inaugural role of Agfest Beef and Schools Livestock Teams Director, which took some time and passion developing up over the last three Agfests. I’m also the Property Working Bee Coordinator for Quercus Rural Youth Park and I also sit on the Property Management Working Group Why did you decide to join Rural Youth: Well, my wife was State President at the time, and I could see the values and leadership that Rural Youth was giving her, and I wanted that as well. I was shocked to find that it also has given me long life friends from right across the State What are the key skills you have gained from your involvement in Agfest: Without a shadow of a doubt, leadership and the skills to manage people, playing to their strengths to get outcomes for them, Rural Youth and Agfest. Leadership is one of the hardest skills you can undertake but also the most rewarding. When it all comes together, it's brilliant and that's what we do well at Agfest and Rural Youth, we come together to pull off the biggest field day in Tasmania for over 30 years now Describe the most hilarious moment so far of your involvement in the field days: Oh, there are so many to choose from but the funniest and most rewarding is seeing the whole Agfest Committee letting their hair down and dancing in the streets of the site on the last night of Agfest. This happening while our exhibitors are leaving the site is brilliant. I find it to be very reassuring that all the hard work and ten months a year of planning has paid off. Three words that best describe you: Passionate, energised and hardworking Share a
description of any other jobs / voluntary positions you hold: When I’m not on site or wrapped up in the fields days you will find me attending to Tasmania Schools’ grounds and school farm. I also overlook the beef sections as chief steward of the Royal Hobart Show and Brighton Show. Describe the three activities you love to do on the weekend: Spending time with my two-year-old, boy Morgan,checking the stock on the school farm and watching the V8 supercars in my lazy boy Favourite movie: Rush Hour One, Two and Three and Lethal Weapon One, Two, Three and Four Favourite food: Too many to choose from Favourite book: The Harry Potter series If you could invite any three people to join you for a dinner party, who would they be: Tough question but Obama, Peter Cosgrove and, if alive, Sir John Monash If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be: A much better understanding of the farming sector in the city and how we all can support the rural community to break down the divide between the bush and the city. Farming has developed a great deal, even since I went into the sector, and it’s a message we should be proud of. All Australians should be proud of their 140,000 farmers so let’s get behind them to build a more sustainable way of living. A deeper and more intelligent understanding of the bush is what I would change
Family Pass Giveaway Congratulations to Rebecca Maxwell for winning the October Agfest Antics Newsletter double pass. We look forward to welcoming Rebecca to Agfest 2021 back in the paddock! Community Focus - Hillwood Football Club Hillwood Committee members, Jim Hammersley, Kaye McLean and Bob McLean have worked every Agfest since first being allocated a site in 2006. Name of Community Group: Hillwood Football Club Location of group: Hillwood, a small village of 800 people, 30 kilometres north of Launceston Two-sentence description of the group’s vision, membership and goals: Number of years exhibited at Agfest: 14 years Describe the preparation involved to participate in Agfest: Considerable planning in arranging volunteers and the various products that we sell to be able to operate our food van Describe your site and what you deliver at Agfest: The Hillwood Football Club hires a large self-contained and well equipped food van with fridges, freezers, deep fryers and barbecue facilities. We also have a marquee at the back to supplement our ability to supply a large number of meals through the busiest parts of the day starting with egg and bacon burgers for breakfast at 7am for the on-site vendors Overview what difference the proceeds you take from Agfest has made to your community / school: As the Hillwood community is only relatively small, Agfest is our main fund raising event for the year. We are very grateful to Agfest for the opportunity and support that they have given us for the last 14 years to be a very small part in their large and successful community and agricultural field day event and we hope this relationship continues for the foreseeable future Share one memorable Agfest moment: The same people come back every year to purchase and enjoy our food and we have never had any complaints so it is very gratifying to know that our organisation is supplying a product that is well liked and received by the public In your words, how important is Agfest to Tasmania:
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Agfest Diary 1 December: Exhibitor applications close
We look forward to seeing you at Quercus Park for Agfest in the Paddock from 5 – 8 May and in the Cloud from 8 – 15 May |