FINE food, wine, and beverage producers waved the Strathbogie Shire flag and waved it high at this year’s Tastes of the Goulburn Valley festival on Saturday, 26 April.

The annual event welcomed over 2500 visitors through its gates in Seymour's Station Street as it celebrated its 24th year of showcasing local production.

In addition to the bluesy music of Hanna Donnelly, a three-piece band dressed up as cutlery paraded the street playing covers of classics songs that had folk on their feet dancing.

Queues were often more than six people deep at some stalls, such as at goat farmer Victoire de Raphelis' stall where the celebrated Winton cheesemaker had roped in her sister Agathe who was visiting from France.

"Agathe just graduated in marketing from Versailles," Victoire said.

"So we are just testing to see if she chose the right thing to study."

Next door, Wahring flower vendors Julie and Trevor Cubbin were moving bunches of their unique native flowers at a fair pace.

Antcliff's Chase winery was one of five wineries in the shire selling their range of dry reds and whites on the day.

Winemaker Chris Bennett planted the original vines at the Caveat vineyard with his father in 1982 and seven years later celebrated their first vintage.

Wife Susan is known in Euroa as the 'Beanie Lady’ from her seven years at the Farmers Market and took up her half of the trestle table to show off her handmade wool beanies which she knits from hand-dyed and homespun wool shorn from their own sheep.

However it was the popular outdoor Production Kitchen which had seats filling fast for each of its five shows which were hosted by Euroa's Helen Waterworth - who admitted to putting in her 'two cents worth' with guest chefs - but no show filled faster than the day's final act of Longwood's Geoff Kruck demonstrating how to make limoncello ice cream, which was then shared among the crowd.

Mr Kruck was originally known for making sour dough bread which he sold from the back of Avenel's Bank Street Pizza.

His inspiration for the ice cream came from a three-year 2015 overseas trip where he and his wife worked on a 'farm stay' at Tortoli in Sardinia, which exposed them to Italian food.

"The farmer's mother would drop off a bottle of limoncello liqueur every fortnight," Mr Kruck said.

"At the end of the stay, I finally asked for the recipe."

Mr Kruck praised the creativity that was on show at the festival.

"I think everyone has got their own take on fresh produce," he said.

"Since COVID, I think everyone is more passionate and there is more evidence of an emphasis on using seasonal produce and trying to find the origin for different things; and then trying to find the best of the best."

He said he was taking a planned break from his 25 years as a chef to work at Tahbilk winery and also apply his skills through the NDIS with two people with disabilities.

"To me that can be more rewarding than working in restaurants."

The festival's committee co-chairperson Anna Rogan said the festival had grown over the years and that the day had over 2500 visitors coming through the gates.

"Each year we have more vendors and we are hitting our maximum this year with about 60," Ms Rogan said.

"We do this because we love where we live, we think that the people and the produce here are just spectacular, and we want more people to know about it."

Sadly, a truck fire on the Hume Freeway the night before caused six vendors to turn around and so cancel their attendance.

Which means next year's Tastes Festival will be even bigger as it showcases what the local region can produce.

Mr Kruck said he was looking forward to enhance the shire's culinary industriousness by sitting down with 'four or five local chefs' for a meal as suggested recently by a workmate.

"There would be plenty to talk about," he said.

"We all benefit getting together from time to time.

"Food brings people together."