Heathcote Zucchini Festival

14/03/2026

A fabulous afternoon tea was enjoyed by all who could attend Friday's Heathcote Community House - Heathcote Zucchini Festival-ette.
Award winning Zucchini slice and cake a plenty, in the lovely afternoon sunshine 🍰☕️☀️

Thank you to all of the wonderful entries and Congratulations to those who are now basking in Zucchini Glory 🥒🎉👏

-- Joanne for her win with the most ginormous of Bigggest zucchinis, weighing in at a whopping 5.1kgs, 🏆🏅

- Cindy for her win with the Ugliest zucchini, which was cultivated with so much love, 🏆🏅

- Pam for her Back to Back wins with her delicious, award winning Zucchini Slice, 🏆🏅

- Amanda with the very special yummy cake, handed down the generations 🏆🏅

Our very scaled-down intimate event still managed to raise $75 each for our local SES and CFA volunteer legends 🙏👏🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️

Thanks to Ziggy and the Ziggettes for being available to take your donations 😁

We look forward to next year's Full Zucchini Festival, spreading the love and the glory of our wonderous home grown and home made produce and fun times together 💛

28/02/2026

It's official!
We are having a scaled-down Zucchini Festival this year, given the fires, floods and frenzies of 2026.
So.
Please join us for a Zucchini-themed afternoon tea on Friday 13th March, at the Heathcote Community House, from 2-4pm.

We will be raising funds (by feeding Ziggy the giant Zucchini) for our local services - CFA and SES, who have done a stellar job keeping us all safe this year (only two months in and it feels like twenty).

Because we love to judge things, bring along your zucchini-themed contributions to any of these categories:
Zucchini cake or muffins (bring your recipe to share)
Zucchini slice (bring your recipe to share)

Zucchini-inspired art or poetry

Giant zucchini (Dave is defending his title, BTW)
Most beautiful zucchini
Ugliest zucchini

Gold coin donation to enter, prize is a certificate and the applause of your community, friends and family. Entries 2pm - 2.15pm

Given they are the vital fluids which any self-respecting Community House runs on, Tea and Coffee will, of course, be available.
Afternoon tea will be a shared affair (hopefully from the contributions of the competitions!)

28/02/2026

At the Festival-ette afternoon tea, we will still have many of the competitions.
Bring along your zucchini-themed contributions to any of these categories:
Zucchini cake or muffins (bring your recipe to share)
Zucchini slice (bring your recipe to share)

Zucchini-inspired art or poetry

Giant zucchini
Most beautiful zucchini
Ugliest zucchini

Gold coin donation to enter, prize is a certificate and the applause of your community, friends and family.
Entries received 2pm - 2.15pm
Friday 13 March, 2-4pm

03/01/2026

30/09/2025

There’s another Heathcote Zucchini Festival being planned for early 2026.
That is all.
Please go about your business.

07/03/2025

Thank you to Sandra James and our local newspaper The McIvor Times for some great coverage of our recent festival.

The inaugural Heathcote Zucchini Festival brought fun, competitions, and community spirit to Heathcote, raising over $1,000 for flood restoration.

04/03/2025

These poems are too good not to be shared to many millions to read and delight in them!

Our lovely judges could not split these entries on Sunday at our inaugural Heathcote Zucchini Festival.

Great work poets - enjoy 😍

02/03/2025

What a wonderful day out at our inaugural Heathcote Zucchini Festival yesterday - thank you to the most amazing people we met who came along to support the day.

Delicious food & amazing cake stall 🥗🥧🍪🍰
23 competition entries 🏆
Fun and yummy workshops
Great live Music 🎤🎹🎸
Some fabulous fun games
Awesome people to connect with 💛

A total of $1036.20 raised for Heathcote Community House flood restoration, repairs and maintenance - we are so grateful to all 2 who came along and who supported this first time event

Congrats to raffle winner - Jo Stanford 🥳

Congrats to our competition winners who can boast zucchgloriousness

Biggest Zucchini - Dave Munroe 3.875kg
It was a close one! Wirh Kerstin Brauns at 3.425kg

Ugliest Zucchini - Kerrie Burn

Most Beautiful Zucchini - Emily Jordan

Best 3 young zucchini with flowers attached - Simone Calabria

Best zucchini slice with recipe - Pam Boyes

Best poem or song about zucchini, and with the word zucchini in it - it was a tie! With our 2 winners being - Kathryn Saltmarsh and Trevor Moore

Thank you to our working group and community house team for getting the work done to make it all happen - special mentions to Amanda, Mel, Jodie, Molly, Will, Dave, Ness, Charlie, Jeanette, Ellen, Sylvia, Mandi, Deb, Ralph, Mary, Anthony and all that lent a hand. 👏💛

Special thanks to Deb for the great workshops
To Lance, The Joker for the great music 🎶
To Jess and Malachai, for their musical performances, 👏💛
Our fabulous judges Deb Edgell, and Elora, Liana and Heather from 3Seeds Homestead
The Barn Pet Stock and Feed for the discounted hay bales & free delivery
To Jo for the Gluten Free baking 💛
To Heathcote Mitre10 for putting together our raffle prize and winners seed pack
To Charleen & the Pyalong Hall for the Portable PA
Sandra and The McIvor Times
Pyalong General Store for the pastry & gravy support
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ & CD) work team for our awesome new picnic and bench seats, and children's set and fabulous car
Heathcote SmilesDay for the vests
To all who brought produce & grden bits to swap

A huge thank you to Mandalay Resources for their sponsorship, that allowed us to run the event. 💛

01/03/2025

A FEW THINGS
TO BRING WITH YOU
TOMORROW

Your sun hat

Some cash
(sorry we don't have card thingys)

Fresh produce, seedlings, seeds and garden
to include on the Fresh swap table and trolley
to swap with others

Your Competition entries
(Drop off between 11.30am & 12pm)

Your sense of fun and a big Smile

Your best listening ears
(we have fabulous local entertainment)

Your sense of creativity
we have 2 x Free & fabulous workshops
12.30pm - we make zucchini characters
2pm - it's zucchini salad making time

Free water on site
Soft drink cans for $2
Tea and Coffee for a gold coin donation

5 lunch menu choices for $10 per meal
Beef & vege pie served with a green garden salad
Beef & hidden vege pasta bolognese
Zucchini & haloumi fritters
served with green garden salad
Zucchini slice served with a green salad
Roast Pork Roll

A cake stall with $5 cakes including;
Lemon slice, scones, stick date pudding,
Yum yum balls, choc chip cookies
and banana loaf for $8

A great raffle prize on offer with gardening.
products and a zucchini spiralizer just for you
One ticket for $3 or 3 tickets for $5

Free Entry to our Zucchini toss
with a $50 Gaffney voucher up for grabs

Ziggy and the Ziggettes will be here to receive
your generous donations

25/02/2025

Meet Ziggy and the Ziggettes this Sunday at the Festival.

These gorgeous donation boxes have been hand crafted by our wonderfully talented Mel.

Most of our festival is FREE
FREE entry

FREE workshops and demos for both children and adults - Make a zucchini character 12.30pm and Zucchini Salad from 2pm

FREE entertainment

Our Zucch competitions are a gold coin donation, except for the Zucchs kids entry categories, they are FREE

Delicious Lunches and Cake stall available on the day for purchase, along with a limited range of soft drink
Water is FREE
Lunch menu to be advised shortly

All funds raised go toward Heathcote Community House flood repair and restoration works, and general much needed repairs.

25/02/2025

🚨📢🚨📢🚨📢
Can you believe it's all happening this Sunday?
Where have the first 2 months of 2025
disappeared to?
Seriously, did you see where they disappeared to?

Well, the Zucchs in Heathcote aren't disappearing,
and we're about to give them
some more life and love! 🤗🥳💛

BE FIRST in on the day to our workshops &
demos, so you don't miss out
**NOTE TIMES HAVE CHANGED
Now 12.30pm
- make and sculpt a zucchini character
And at 2pm
- Zucchini salad making demo/workshop
and tasting!

☎️ Call the Heathcote Community House
on 5433 2820 or message us
with any questions

We cannot wait to see your amazing.
competition entries 👀
Who will be awarded our esteemed
Zucchglorious legends
🧑‍🌾👨‍🍳👩‍🎨👩‍💻🤴👸🏆🏅🎖
- not long to wait now -

21/02/2025

🥒🥕 ZUCC KIDDS COMPETITIONS 🖼🎨
AND WORKSHOP
For All 13yr old and unders

Join our Zucchini people-building workshop?
10.50 for 11am start – end time 11:45
at the Community House
Festival Day - Sunday 2nd March

There are only twenty spots - so make sure you sign up asap on 5433 2820

The workshop will help you make a zucchini person, which you can enter in the Zucchini Festival competition if you want to

📢 ZuccKIDs Competitions on the day include -

1. Best Zucchini person
*Must be made of ALL edible components, no.
toothpicks or paint

2. Best poster about Zucchinis
*Must have name and age on back