MICHAEL Mckenzie reports on salt on Bush Telegraph’s Food on Friday. Michael interviews co author of a new book on salt “The salt book”, Fritz Gubler and highlights the many different types of salt around the world, salt and our health and how to use them. Listen to the interview on Bush Telegraph on Friday 26th March
HEATHER and Mike Biggs run Karrimah Farm at Wellard on Perth’s outskirts, a micro business growing chillies and producing a range of chilli condiments which was born out of their joint love and combined skills of growing, preserving and cooking.
Mike has a background in horticultural science, commercial growing and horticultural consulting. Heather has had a lifelong love affair with food and cooking, particularly big, bold and spicy flavours and has always had a particular fascination for ‘preserving the harvest’.
Together, they’ve adapted their combined skills and knowledge to meet the needs of a small operation while keeping in mind the main objectives, preserving the natural bushland and having some fun.
On Sun 11 April 2010, joint Slow Food Perth on an excursion to the chilli garden, learn about Mike and Heather’s unique approach to food production, and enjoy a light lunch where they’ll introduce you gently to the joys of spicing up your food with chillies.
Book early as numbers are limited to 20.
Event details
Date: Sun 11 Apr 2010
Time: 12:00pm
Location: 22 Thorne Place, Wellard WA 6170
Fee: $20 members, $25 guests. Children welcome
Booking form
JONATHAN Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals, was interviewed by ABC Lateline anchor Tony Jones on the 25 March 2010. Jonathan set out three years ago to find out about the ethics of eating. Largely inspired by his book the ABC sent out a reporter to investigate factory farming of chickens in Australia. As Jonathan explains it is fairly easy to find out where your fruit, vegetables or bread comes from, but where meats comes from is another matter. He sees part of the solution as going back to our older eating habits, eating together with food prepared by ourselves. Jonathan would like to see a global transparent conversation with the the factory farming industry, veterinarians, environmentalists, philosophers and all of us about the ethics of eating. Read Peter Singer’s review in The Monthly of “Eating Animals”
SLOW Food on campus in the United States is run by student members of the Slow Food Movement. These people represent a passionate cross section of youth addressing food systems and food justice issues, including environmental and social causes. In February the students partnered with Students for Fair Trade to arrange a collaborative approach to organising events. View their fact sheet on Terra Madre and their action ideas
ABC reporter Brigid Anderson reports on Monday 22nd that the Federal Government have been urged to support the development of agriculture in Australian cities and that the development of community gardens would allow cities to combat the issue of their food security. Cassie White journalist with the ABC reports on the issues of buying local in her article “Buy local and sink the export industry“. The comments from her article have highlighted many related issues.
CITY of Sydney’s policy, ‘Sustainable Sydney 2030-Global, Green, Connected writes that community gardens are a valid urban landuse and valuable as a recreational activty that contributes to the health and wellbeing of the wider community and provides a wide range of environmental, social and educational benefits. It also recognises that street verge gardens can be recognised as community gardens. The Australian City Farms and Community Gardens network reports on this policy. Their web site includes a great resource of fact sheets on all aspects of community gardening.
SUSTAINABLE Melbourne.com is supported by the Victorian Government through the sustainability fund and is a network and communication system to deliver information, to connect people and projects and to accelerate the city’s transformation into a sustainable city. Many movements are involved in this project amongst which is Slow Food Melbourne’s Farmers Market which helps to contribute to their evolving sustainable city. Sustainable Rotterdam which has quickly become a model for creating a window on the social, cultural and design activities is often a model used by cities around the world. Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainabilty at Curtin University tells us in his book on sustainable ecosystems how modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents.
HUNTER-gatherer food came in many forms from both animals and plants and was eaten raw, cooked or preserved. The Hunter Gatherer Club will have its inaugural dinner at Muldoon Farms at Bungendore in late March. Food will be collected from the wild, vegetables such as wild purslane, chicory and mushrooms along with venison and yabbies will be served. Deborah Newell, founder of the Hunter Gatherer Dinner Club; Professor Neil Mann, nutritionist, RMIT University speak on the virtues of eating a hunter gatherer style diet on Bush Telegraph with Michael Cathcart.
REPORTED on ABC news in a story on feeding Australia, journalist Brigit Anderson reports on the seasonal aspect of food, food miles and how buying food out of season shows how disconnected we have become from the land. Eating food out of season is having a huge environmental impact, read further from the news article
Food labelling hearings will be held in Perth on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th March, for further information follow this link. The State opposition agricultural spokesman Mick Murray is calling on the State Government to introduce labelling on products containing genetically modified food. See ABC news Monday 15th March
