Albury is slowly kicking back into gear with an array of events held over the weekend, after the Border's social calendar was interrupted by COVID-19 restrictions over last few months.
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Ann Wolki, who ran a fermentation class on Saturday with grower Michelle Suggate, said the idea to teach others how to preserve food was inspired by pandemic panic buying.
"When supermarkets where empty people were wanting to create their own larder at home," she said.
"We produce our own beef, chicken and pork and a lot of people are buying more bulk meats to have in their freezer.
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"So you're kind of having these stores at home, with pantries full of preserves, pickles, jams and then you've got a freezer full of meat, so they don't have to worry about rushing to the supermarket."
The Cafe Musette owner said the class taught eight people how to make sauerkraut with cabbage produced regeneratively on her Wolki farm.
Ms Wolki said she plans to run more.
"Coming into summer there's a lot of other classes we're wanting to do, like Kombucha and wild soda," she said.
Meanwhile on Sunday, Albury Wodonga Theatre Company hosted its first event since The Phantom of the Opera showed in May - a script reading of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Event coordinator Aana Nicol said it felt good to get together with like minded people again.
"We like to just share that common thing, it's good to get out and be face to face again," she said.
The script reading was not an audition, though Ms Nicol said she would be the director of the play, when it eventually ran next year.
"Play readings are less confronting for those people who don't want to be on stage," she said.
"It makes people have a sense of community again, which I think we've been robbed of with COVID.
"It brings that theatre community together again and theatre is such an expressive sort of recreational thing that all the people being able to come and express themselves again and talk about it and shows they were in and what's coming up next, it's just a nice feeling."
Tribehounds guitarist Cameron Dunne was playing at the gig.
"It's means the world to us," he said.
"We've been going stir crazy not being able to play."
Lead guitarist Tim Prince said it was nice to be in front of an audience after being locked down.
"We just want to be up there and watch the crowd go nuts, that's all you want," he said.
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