Taste Great Southern returns from March 5 to 8 next year, inviting visitors back down south for a feast of place, produce and people.

The festival will scatter more than 20 events across a region known as much for its brooding coastlines as its cool-climate wines and restless creativity.

There will be long lunches beside fields of ancient granite, dinners that flirt with smoke and sea spray, and chefs who treat the bush, the beach and the cellar as a single, generous larder.

Leading the charge is chef Jo Barrett, whose food feels grown from the soil and ocean rather than just borrowing from them.

She’ll join Evan Hayter of Margaret River’s de’sendent; Paul “Yoda” Iskov, whose roaming restaurant Fervor tells stories of Country and connection; Corey Rozario of Dahl Daddys; and a supporti

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