Tell us your fermentation needs, your wishes and dreams for your fermentation business
What do you need and how can we help?
FermenTas is a not-for-profit company designed to add capacity to the Agrifood and beverage industry by local value adding to primary produce. Just as fermentation transforms produce into delicious nutritious essential foods, so can FermenTas help transform your ideas and business by providing the space and equipment, training and skills to reduce the risk and enable you to take an idea from concept to market testing to commercial production without the huge capital outlay.
Core to everything is collaboration and consultation, therefore we need you to tell us what you need, what ideas and dreams you have by completing an expression of interest.
This information will enable us to secure additional funding (escalating building costs) we need to complete the centre of excellence we call the Fermentation Hub, which will be situated 10km from the CBD of Launceston, a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy and the gateway to the Tamar Valley.
FermenTas is based on a Cluster Economic Development model which emphasises collaborating to grow the wider industry that is self-sustaining through the Fermentation Hub. This is where a community working in a shared facility will not only bring business and cross training opportunities but the sparks of innovation will fly. Bringing in new technology such as Precision Fermentation, will allow real forward thinking to address global issues around food justice and feeding the world. We need to value our waste streams and look at how we can use out of spec. produce to create fermented vegetable products and our own production waste can provide energy to the facility through anaerobic fermentation.
The Fermentation Hub will be a true quadruple helix operation led by industry but with important stakeholders in academia and education including UTas and TasTAFE, government and of course the community.
While the Hub is essentially a sexy 1800sqm shed inside is where the magic happens with production facilities allowing for:
- winemaking, brewing, cider making, distilling;
- dairy processing;
- fermentation kitchen for fermented vegetable and fruit products;
- sourdough bakery;
alongside areas for:
- Education and hands on learning opportunities;
- Laboratories for testing and training;
- Sensory Lab for market testing;
- CoWork space; and
- retail.
Put the agents of fermentation, the yeast and bacteria to work and we have a world of microbes, an ecosystem that produces essential food from probiotics, cheese and pickles, to beer, wine, coffee and bread. Add in the people and state of the art facilities and we will have a Fermentation Hub that is about realising ideas from:
- New Product Development to create a new business or help diversify or scale up an existing one
- Skills and training opportunities, currently in Tasmania alone we have 350 jobs needing trained staff
- Commercially focussed research to address those wicked problems and take advantage of opportunities
- Hands on agritourism experiences
- Showcase of circular economy in action for food production
- global outreach particularly through the recent UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy denomination for Launceston.
Help us deliver what you need at www.fermentasmania.com and fill in the form or send us an email to info@fermentasmania.com…we look forward to working with you!
Farm Gate Futures is a new initiative that aims to help Tasmanian farmers and producers to branch out, generate new income streams and build resilience through on farm agritourism opportunities.
The focus of Farm Gate Futures is to build each farmer’s ability to adapt to change that may include impacts as a result of changing market conditions, climate, changing technologies or responses to crisis impacts such as floods and drought.
Join us at our face-to-face Field Day event to find out more about:
- Agritourism and the opportunities it presents
- The Tasmanian market for agritourism experiences
- How and why other farmers are creating agritourism experiences
- How we can help you explore the right option for your farm’s future
As part of the Farm Gate Futures Project, Regionality Pty Ltd will deliver Australia’s longest running and most successful Agritourism Business Development Program, which will help farmers explore their potential, capacity and resources to innovate on farm.
FermentED:
Study Fermentation without fees in 2023
Fermentation Education opportunities, without tuition fees, with the University of Tasmania are open for registration. A number of short courses and associate degrees exploring the arts of ferments are available. This is an exciting chance to take part in hands on industry-based learning which will provide you with a foundation to take your first step into working in the growing fermentation industry.
Various courses, including cider, brewing and fermentation are part of the FermenTas education platform, which through collaboration with industry and educators is committed to creating opportunities within Tasmania for the skilled practice of everything fermentation.
Other News:
The Australian Cider Conference to be held in the Perth Hills in Western Australia from 3-5 May 2023. The conference them is The Business of Cider. For more information visit https://www.cideraustralia.org.au/auscider/.
Needing space?….Needing cool store or frozen storage? Forager Foods can help at their new warehouse facility at Western Junction near the Launceston Airport in Tasmania with full loading dock facilities. Now offering:
- Ambient product:
- General pallet storage.
- Bonded Storage
- Chiller, held at 2-3 degrees.
- Frozen, held at -24 degrees.
Good Fermentation Takes Time
Learn from Tasmanian fermentation heroes about what they are doing
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