IRANIAN emigre cook Farangeez Ahmadi will present a small workshop to discuss and taste Iranian food. Numbers limited. Date to be advised. Farangeez, who lives in Perth, presented a persian baklava workshop for Slow Food Perth in April 2007 and demonstrated Iranian cooking at the convivium’s Mundaring truffle festival marquee in August 2008. For information about this workshop email Slow Food Perth.
SOON to be announced by the Federal Government is an initiative of the Primary Industries Education Foundation to reinvigorate agricultural education in primary and secondary schools.
JOURNALIST Tom Moggach of The Guardian [10 December 2008] writes about a growing trend in the United Kingdom: groups of people establishing local buying co-operatives.
DESERT Knowledge has a mission is to create economic opportunities for indigenous communities in Australia. It seeks to provide sustainable livelihoods for desert people that are based on natural resources and to encourage sustainable remote desert settlements that support the presence of desert people, particularly remote Aboriginal communities. Its core partners are aboriginal councils, state governments, universities and CSIRO. There is ongoing researh into sustainable livelihoods for indigenous communities and into bush harvest. The Desert Knowledge web site has a wealth of information.
SAM Levin, a 16-year-old student at Monument High School in the United States, and speaker at the opening ceremony of Terra Madre 2008 in Turin, Italy, talked about how he and two of his friends established an organic student run garden in the grounds of his school. They called it ‘Project Sprout’, and not only does this garden feed the hungry in the community but supplies the school cafeteria with fresh fruit and vegetables.
AN in-depth and intriguing article from National Geographic in September 2008 about soil degradation and restoration.
