Calling budding poets and hopeless romantics - this is your opportunity to share your love of language, with a food and poetry degustation. This four-course dinner is a physical manifestation of love and an ode to food. Join Simon Sweetman, Wellington writer, critic, musician and poet, as he reads some of his own poetry, and yours too if you're feeling game. Chefs Tim and Aaron Banks will lovingly create a four-course dinner with ingredients locally sourced and lovingly produced by small scale sustainable farmers... and perhaps they will read their own poems too. If you're feeling poetic bring along your own poem specially crafted around this year's festival theme 'Food is Love'. It can be as long or short as you like, as happy or sad, comical or tragic, Keats or Bukowski. Spot prizes for various categories including 'Most Related to the Theme' and 'Most Obviously Foodie' poems. Includes four courses, and a welcome glass of bubbles on arrival.

12-hour slow-cooked beef shoulder from Conscious Valley Farm with pickled bread and butter zucchini, Crooked Vege beetroot and carrot sauerkraut, gem marigold mayo and braise stock jus in a housemade steamed focaccia bun. This burger reflects the everyday ethos of Lustre Kitchen and its growers: where food is love, and relationships matter. Built on partnerships with small-scale, sustainable producers like Crooked Vege and Conscious Valley Farm, it’s a celebration of doing things differently, and with heart.