Visitors learned, locals tasted and the winners celebrated at this year's Local Wild Food Challenge in Raetihi.
Raetihi local Kay Henare and her whanau won big, with Kay taking out the grand prize and her family finishing runners-up in the junior challenge.
Ms Henare won with her entry "The 3 Billy Goats Gruff" which consisted of a curried goat pie with goat cheese, a Horopito goat kebab and a goats milk ice-cream desert.
"I didn't realise the category I had won at first, I was quite overwhelmed, I was like oh my god, really?
"The standards are pretty high and I think this year we tried to get even more adventurous with the types of meals we made this year," Ms Henare said.