OzHarvest Ventures’ Post

💛 Celebrating two years of OzHarvest Ventures, with two months of jam-packed activities including taking out a win at the World Beverage Innovation Awards 2025 for our upcycled Oh! Lemonaid, what a journey that's only just beginning! With a few huge months for OzHarvest Ventures - full of purpose, people and sharing our products-for-good... to the world, we thought it deserved a bit of a highlights wrap up! 🌱 We loved being part of Social Enterprise Council of NSW & ACT (SECNA) Social Enterprise Festival, celebrating the incredible community of social entrepreneurs and change-makers proving how business should be done, where people and planet come before profit. Thanks to Kylie Flament and the SECNA team for creating the space for us to come together and shine a light on business for good. 🚜 We headed to Social Impact in the Regions, connecting with amazing regional local leaders and community champions. Huge thanks to Kerry Grace and Chad Renando for championing place-based solutions and sharing opportunities for expanded impact in the regions. Great to see impact friends Tom Dawkins Tom Allen Dr Dimity Podger and great humans all round. 🍽️ At Fine Food Australia, we showcased our new range of upcycled and zero-waste products. We loved sharing how food innovation can help feed people in need and protect the planet. 🌾 At the Indigiearth Native Australian Food Festival, we stood alongside Conscious Drink partner Ben Tyler of Kakadu Kitchen soaking in the incredible knowledge and wisdom of First Nations food entrepreneurs driving true regeneration and cultural connection across Country. 🎤 We also joined SXSW Sydney serving up purposeful products and hosting a panel on resilient food systems for the future — with voices like Matt Moran AM, Philippe Ceulen our very own Louise Tran leading the conversation. 🍋 An absolute highlight was hosting a launch at Rob ‘Rusty’ McLean’s lemon farm in Woodburn to officially launch our range of Oh! for OzHarvest upcycled products turning unloved lemons and product into tasty products, filled with purpose. Special mention to these incredible humans who joined us for the event and panel on food sustainability and circularity: Michael Paull & Brent Beauchamp from Second Squeeze, Palisa Anderson from Boon Luck Farm, Pam and Martin Brook from Brookfarm, Malcolm and the team at Extracta, Daniel Souza, Tianda Williams from uForage, Mindy Woods - incredible people of purpose driving innovation, regeneration and collaboration across our food system. To top it off, our Oh! Lemonaid took home the World Beverage Award for CSR & Sustainability, a special collaboration with Second Squeeze and our clever makers at Gypsy Hub! 🏆🌏 The common thread? Meaningful collaboration. We are so excited about what is possible, when farmers, food innovators, local manufacturers and impact-makers come together to build a food system for good!! #CircularEconomy #FoodInnovation #SocialEnterprise #Community #Collaboration