The venture is one of Love.
Love for Wonderful Food. Love for Beautiful People. Love for our Marvellous Planet.
It is the realization of Many Dreams.
It is the fight for Sustainability.
It’s a Nutrition education for our Community.
We've created a vibrant experience centre where people meet Chefs, Butchers, Local Producers, and many more incredible artists.
And it all starts in Manly!
An appetite for food with a purpose
Our goal is to promote a Healthier Social Spirit with a strong Sustainability Etiquette. We operate in a way that protects, preserves and/or restores the natural environment. We minimise our impact on the planet, by addressing issues like sustainable farming, carbon footprint, shortening supply chain, food wastage, packaging, water and energy consumption, recycling, and more.
We also give our customers the opportunity to contribute to these positive efforts. People adhere to ROVING LARDERS’VALUES by
- Cooking peak-season produce (when it’s delicious and inexpensive). And drying, freezing, and preserving it as observed in class to facilitate longer shelf-life and manage less food waste.
- Enrolling a Vegan/Vegetarian class helps lower the harmful impact that animal agriculture has on the planet.
- Volunteering to our charitable foundation works. Cooking dinners or packing grocery bags for Food Banks, helping clean the Beach, or generously donating a few dollars.
- Using our Sustainability tips. We let everybody know in class or on social media what part we’re playing in helping the planet, always sharing effective strategies, statistics on our progress, and new initiatives.
Together, we’re making a difference.
“Leisure-tainment” and “edu-tainment”
We all want to see/touch/feel products alongside trying new foods and entertaining our children - all in one local destination. Roving Larder creates a beautiful setting to make beautiful food.
This is a very exciting time to be here in Australia. The country is beaming with local producers, artisan breweries, and chefs returning home from stints around the world, thrilled to share what they’ve gathered in their travels with a ravenous public.
From bakers, cheese-makers, butchers, and hatted chefs, we are delited to share with you our great connections and friends in the industry.
Every day, our students will cook with top quality, fresh ingredients giving them a real appreciation of what thoughtful cooking tastes like.
Lifelong education
The structure of each class balances two fundamental approaches to learning in the kitchen: open forum cookery demonstrations, and all-inclusive hands-on sessions.
All our courses are created to help our students become more fluent in the kitchen. No matter what level—whether they are enthusiastic but new to it all, savvy home cooks, or big food lovers with limited time to spare— our classes are intimate and personal enough to seriously help them along their way.
Our greatest hope is to inspire more cooking and learning in the kitchen.
