Victoria's biggest celebration of Australian garlic, the South Gippsland Garlic Festival will be held at its new home at the Korumburra Showgrounds on Saturday, March 8.

Formerly the Meeniyan Garlic Festival, the festival began in 2017, aiming to showcase and educate visitors about the huge array of garlic varieties grown in Australia, how to cultivate it at home, and how to use it in the kitchen.
Victoria produces 32 per cent of Australia's total fresh garlic with an output of 874 tonnes. ($6.8m value). Gippsland is also a hot spot for garlic growing, with the number of growers increasing each year.
This year's festival will host 80 stallholders, including a dedicated Garlic Street, featuring Aussie growers like Garlic Kingdom and Pure Garlic, who will be selling fresh and preserved garlic products.
There will be food vendors cooking up garlic dishes, local chef demonstrations, and an educational hub headed up by the Australian Garlic Industry Association - the Garlic University - which will include a presentation by industry authority Penny Woodward, and a series of presentations on small farm and commercial growing.
The Garlic Festival Bar will return, where Gippsland winemakers, brewers, and distilleries - including Fleet Wines, Gurneys Cider, Burra Brewing, Mates Gin, Carrajung Estate - will pour perfectly paired beverages for attendees. There will also be live local entertainment on the festival stage, free kids activities including a visit from Bluey, and more.
This year's Garlic Festival Kitchen, hosted by former Masterchef contestant and self-confessed garlic lover Simon Toohey, will welcome for the first time co-head chefs Jodie Odrowaz and Michael Clark from Messmates Dining in Warragul.
Alejandro Saravia, Gippsland Food and Beverage Ambassador, and chef/owner of Farmers Daughters and Morena restaurants will return to the kitchen, plus others to be announced. During live demonstrations, the chefs will cook up their favourite allium-based dishes, with recipes garlic lovers can then recreate at home.
The festival will run from 9am to 6pm at the showgrounds. Tickets are available at southgippslandgarlicfestival.au