Find your local food experience

When you have as many local producers and growers as the Sunshine Coast, you need your own directory.

The Sunshine Coast Regional Food Directory is your go to guide for local food and beverage producers in the Sunshine Coast and surrounding areas.

Here you'll find everything from crustaceans to condiments and beef to bananas, but also lots of food related experiences such as farm visits, cooking schools and events.

Things to do

Farm tours and visits

Bamboo Park
What you’ll find: Bamboo Park - Tropical nursery and farm shop. A relaxed oasis where families and dogs are welcome. Visit the nursery, meet the chickens and pigs, shop for bamboo, native fruit trees, palms, soils, free range eggs and pork.
Location: Valdora
Website: https://bamboopark.com.au/

Big Heart Bamboo
What you’ll find: Their signature range of award-winning gourmet bamboo delicacies are made from freshly harvested bamboo shoots that are hand picked at first light, from their spray-free farm.
Location: Belli Park
Website: https://www.bigheartbamboo.com/

Brouhaha Brewery
What you’ll find: Brouhaha Brewery is a Sunshine Coast based brewer of craft beers. Visit the brewery and enjoy beer on tap and a locally inspired menu at the restaurant. Brewery tours also available.
Location: Maleny
Website: https://brouhahabrewery.com.au/

Candy Addictions
What you’ll find: Candy Addictions is a Sunshine Coast producer of handmade rock candy. Full range of flavours and candy making demonstrations on site.
Location: Montville
Website: https://www.candyaddictions.com.au/

Eumundi Beef
What you’ll find: Eumundi Beef is a Sunshine Coast based farmer and breeder of beef cattle and producer of free range, grass fed beef. 100% pasture fed, herbicide and pesticide free (with the exception of tick treatment), no growth hormones. Bulk meat direct sales from farm shop as well as market sales. Online store. Farm visits by appointment – or check website for farm open days.
Location: Eumundi
Website: https://www.eumundibeef.com.au/

Eumundi Eggs & Feather
What you’ll find: Eumundi Egg and Feather is a Eumundi based producer of pastured / free range chicken and duck eggs. Pastured chicken and duck available on application. Hospitality and wholesale orders welcome. Farm gate by appointment.
Location: Eumundi
Website: https://www.facebook.com/eumundieggandfeather

Flame Hill Vineyard
What you’ll find: Flame Hill Vineyard is a Sunshine Coast grower of grapes, producer of wine and farm produce preserves as well as a beef grazier. Vineyard is open to the public, with a restaurant featuring farm grown and produced meals. Beef for sale by the quarter, direct from the farm. Commercial scale market garden and preserves such as Shiraz jam etc. Visit website for more information about their annual Wine Stomp and wines.
Location: Montville
Website: https://flamehill.com.au/

Kandanga Farm
What you’ll find: Kandanga Farm is a Mary Valley based farmer of sheep and cattle. They run fermenting workshops, tours and farm visits – by appointment. See Facebook page for more details.
Location: Kandanga
Website: https://www.kandangafarmstore.com.au/

Kenilworth Dairies
What you’ll find: Open seven days a week, you'll find relishes and jams to hot sauce. Take a stroll down their Dairy alley and check out their many magnificent cheeses, yoghurts and mousses. Enjoy a coffee, lunch or one of their handmade ice creams at Poppa’s Café.
Location: Kenilworth
Website: https://www.kenilworthdairies.com.au/

Kookaburra Organics
What you’ll find: Kookaburra Organics is a Sunshine Coast based grower of fruit and vegetables and provide workshops on Sustainable Market Gardening, Beekeeping, Sourdough Bread, etc. See website for workshop details and dates.
Location: Maleny
Website: https://www.kookaburraorganics.com/

Maleny Cheese Factory
What you’ll find: Maleny Cheese Factory is a Sunshine Coast based producer of cheese and Greek style yoghurt. Amongst their range of cheeses are camembert, brie, fetta, cheddar, as well as buffalo brie, fetta and quark. Group tours can book tasting tours online or enjoy a self guided tasting tour in the onsite cafe. Bookings essential for bus groups. Wholesale and retail.
Location: Balmoral Ridge, Maleny
Website: https://www.malenycheese.com.au/

Maleny Dairies
What you’ll find: Maleny Dairies is a Sunshine Coast based family owned dairy farm and factory committed to producing premium quality dairy products and helping to make dairy farming sustainable. Farm and Factory Tours run 4 times a day. Their farmers also run Tractor Rides through the stunning Maleny landscape after ttheirs. For more details and bookings please go their website
Location: Maleny
Website: https://www.malenydairies.com/

Young boy with a bowl of freshly picked strawberries

McMartins Strawberry Farm
What you’ll find: McMartin’s Strawberry Farm is a Sunshine Coast based grower of strawberries, figs, custard apples and lychees. Pick your own strawberry season is May – October. They also produce strawberry jam and handmade ice creams, including a signature strawberry ice cream. For picking enquiries please visit website.
Location: Bli Bli
Website: https://www.mcmartinsfarm.com.au/

Nutworks
What you’ll find: Nutworks are a Sunshine Coast based processor of macadamia nuts and producer of macadamia nut products. Nut mixes, choc coated nuts, macadamia oil and paste, as well as other confectionery products. All products are available online. Factory visits welcome, viewing area and retail shop. Select products are gluten free. Wholesale, retail & online sales. Chocolate making workshops for kids in the Easter Holidays.
Location: Yandina
Website: https://nutworks.com.au/

QCamel
What you’ll find: QCamel is a Sunshine Coast based camel dairy and producer of camel milk. Camel milk is pasteurised and bottled locally boasting 10 times the amount of iron than bovine milk, 3 times more Vitamin C, is high in lactoferrin (a multifunctional protein that heals the gut) and naturally contains insulin. Suitable for diabetics and people with auto-immune conditions.
Location: Glasshouse Mountains
Website: https://qcamel.com.au/

Camel in the desert with a glass of milk

Sunshine Coast Brewery
What you’ll find: Sunshine Coast Brewery is a Sunshine Coast craft brewer of beers from their factory facility at Kunda Park. Award winning brewer of Summer Ale, Rauch Bier, Rye Esb, Chilli beer, Hefe-weizen, Porter, Best Bitter, Ginger Kegs and Pilsner. Cellar door sales.
Location: Kunda Park
Website: https://sunshinecoastbrewery.com/

Sunshine Coast Cider
What you’ll find: Their Cellar Door is a small and cosy space for up to 25 guests. You can enjoy a tasting paddle or a glass of bubbles and learn about the cider-making process directly from the maker.
Location: Kunda Park
Website: https://www.sunshinecoastcider.com.au/

The Ginger Factory
What you’ll find: The Ginger Factory is the Sunshine Coast home of Buderim Ginger, Super Bee Honey, The Ginger Shop and the Ginger Cafe. Factory tours and viewing platform of the Buderim Ginger factory where you can learn about how ginger is grown, harvested and processed. Home of the Ginger Flower Festival. See website for dates and information. Retail store of Buderim Ginger products – also available online.
Location: Yandina
Website: https://www.gingerfactory.com.au/

Cooking Schools

Cooking On Witta Maleny
Location: Witta
Website: https://sunshinecoastregionalfood.com.au/listing/cooking-on-witta-maleny/

The Spirit House
Location: Yandina
Website: https://sunshinecoastregionalfood.com.au/listing/the-spirit-house/

The Tamarind Cooking School
Location: Maleny
Website: https://sunshinecoastregionalfood.com.au/listing/the-tamarind-cooking-school/

The Canape Project
Location: Kiels Mountain
Website: https://www.thecanapeproject.net.au/

Red Hot Chilli Pepper
Location: Caloundra
Website: https://sunshinecoastregionalfood.com.au/listing/red-hot-chilli-pepper/

Rio Delights
Location: Caloundra
Website: https://sunshinecoastregionalfood.com.au/listing/rio-delights/

Montville Coffee
Location: Montville
Website: https://sunshinecoastregionalfood.com.au/listing/montville-coffee/

Max’s Native Sun Cuisine
Location: Eumundi
Website: https://sunshinecoastregionalfood.com.au/listing/maxs-native-sun-cuisine/

Life’s a Feast
Location: Noosa Heads
Website: https://sunshinecoastregionalfood.com.au/listing/lifes-a-feast/

Kitchen Carnivale Cooking School
Location: Nambour
Website: https://sunshinecoastregionalfood.com.au/listing/kitchen-carnivale-cooking-school/

Markets

Someone carrying a basket with fresh produce

Grab your basket and turn food buying into an enjoyable weekend experience at one of the Sunshine Coast's many markets. From authentic farmers' markets to those selling everything, you're sure to find one that suits your weekend flavour.