Pioneering theme for Sale Show

Sale and District Agricultural Society is preparing for the 158th annual Sale Show to be hosted at the Sale Showgrounds from Friday, November 3 to Sunday, November 5.

This year, the Sale and District Agricultural Society are introducing a theme to the three-day event – Pioneering.

Early Australian pioneer skills and lost trades is the theme underpinning exhibitions at the show, with this year's major exhibit a working heavy horse and machinery display.

The working heavy horse and machinery display will include working horses driving a chaff cutter, horse-power to load produce bags onto a dray, rope-making display, heavy horse harness, and much more.

There will even be a vardo wagon impressively pinstriped and finished in actual gold leaf.

The working displays will take place on both Friday, November 3 and Saturday, November 4.

Show organisers, Sale and District Agricultural Society, invite practising Australian artisans of early trades and skills to exhibit at the 2023 Sale Show to display skills in timber, clay, stone, metal or other materials.

President Ross Jones said the society, being Gippsland's longest continuing committee-elected organisation, formed in 1859, was initially formed to exhibit the best of pioneer skills in agriculture and horticulture in addition to presenting the best of horses, cattle, sheep and other animals.

"We wish to bring to life all those lost trades from the 1800s and later and invite any practitioner to contact us to enable allocation of indoor space at [email protected]," Mr Jones said.

Mr Jones said the Sale Show attendance is usually about 10,000.