Eaglehawk Bakery owner and manager David McIntyre expects demand for pies to peak on Friday, when $1 from the sale of every pie will be donated to Farmers’ Drought Relief.

The bakery typically sells about 1000 pies a day.

Mr McIntyre said he was preparing a few hundred additional pies for ‘Fight for our farmers Friday’.

“You see it on the TV and feel so sorry for them,” he said of the conditions some farmers were enduring.

“They need the help.”

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A pie night run by Parkview Bakery in Maryborough and St Arnaud on Friday, with support from community groups, contributed $5500 to drought relief.

The bakery sold 1500 pies and pasties on the night, with additional donations from the Rotary Club of Maryborough, Probus Maryborough, and in the form of collections from donation tins. 

The Bendigo Club is among a number of eateries throughout the region involved in the ‘Parma for a Farmer’  initiative.

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A dollar from the sale of every chicken parmigiana at the club this month will be donated to the Buy a bale drought relief campaign. The Bendigo Club is also matching donations for bales of hay.

“Seeing the hardship, struggle and pain our farmers are going through, we need to rally together and remember that every little bit helps as without farmers, where would we be?” venue manager Michelle Robertson said.

Spudway, a baked potato trailer often stationed at Bendigo’s Lake Weeroona, is donating $1 from every ‘parma spud’ sold this month to Buy a Bale.

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