Slow Food Vice President in the news

On June 5, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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VANDANA Shiva, author, philosopher and physicist of Navdanya and Vice President of Slow Food International is in the news. Navdanya is leading the charge for organic farming and biodiversity in India, has trained half a million farmers in sustainable agriculture across India since it was founded in 1987. They have also established seed banks to preserve indigenous seeds. A report in the New York Times in June this year, amongst other things, highlights the increase in yields. Farmer Mr. Das is quoted as saying “the taste is different and grain size is bigger” Read full report.

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ABC Radio interviews Slow Food CEO

On May 24, 2011, in the nose, by jamie
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SLOW Food’s international executive director, Paolo Di Croce, has been interviewed by ABC Perth 720 statewide gardening programme presenters James Lush and Sabrina Hahn about food labelling, food miles and reconnecting eaters with farmers. The broadcast on 21 May 2011 coincided with Paolo’s visit to Perth as part of a series of meetings with Slow Food branches in Australia. Listen to the ABC interview. (The interview with Paolo begins 21 minutes into the download.)

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Western Australian Youth Food Movement

On April 20, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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STEPHANIE McFaull, youth delegate to Terra Madre in 2010 started the Youth Food Movement in Western Australia. Locally it is about fun food events in WA where they want to support smaller, local producers of food through the principles of Slow Food philosophy of good, clean and fair food. Here is the link to the local group
The Youth Food Movement originated at the Slow Food Congress in Mexico in 2007 when a group of students were sponsored by Slow Food USA and Slow Food International to attend the Congress to highlight the work that the youth were accomplishing in their country. The Movement has spread to many countries in the world, including the United Kingdom, Holland and now Australia.

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Adopt a farmer

On April 15, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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ABC’s Bush Telegraph reports on the Biological Farmers of Australia new initiative to take young children’s food education further by linking schools with organic farms. Steve Skopolianos of Ladybird Organics in Victoria is the program’s first adopted farmer. Jane Burns is the organiser of this program and is interviewed on the program by Michael Cathcart. Further information about this initiative is available at www.organicschools.com.au
Steve’s grandfather came out from Northern Greece and farmed the land and now the grandchildren have returned to organic farming. Hear Steve’s exciting story

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A good catch

On April 1, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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IN the recent edition of the Green Living Magazine March/April 2011 there is a four page article written by Sue Peacock about sustainable fishing in Australia. The first five products assessed as sustainable under the Australian Conservation Foundation Sustainable Australian Seafood Assessment Programme are:
Red Emperor from the Pilbara, Western Australia.
Farmed barramundi from Marine Produce Australia, Cone Bay, Western Australia.
Yellow eyed mullet from the Coorong, South Australia.
Western king prawns from Spencer Gulf, South Australia.
Squid from the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.
For the complete picture see the Australian Marine Conservation Society’s Sustainable Seafood Guide at www.sustainableseafood.org.au/Sustainable-Seafood-Guide-Australia.asp/active_page_id=698

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Sustainable fishing in WA

On March 31, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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JEREMY Prince, scientist at the Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research at Murdoch University, points out in his informative introduction to Eating Sustainable Healthy Wild Caught Fish In WA that virtually any fish can be sustainable if fishing communities work together with government scientists and regulators to manage their impact. Jeremy Prince wrote this article at the request of Jude Blereau of Wholefoods to highlight the story behind several WA fisheries that should be rewarded for the part they play in our society and marine environment. Read full article

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Esperance Festival of the Wind lunch

On March 10, 2011, in events & bookings, the nose, by jamie
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IN 2009 Slow Food Perth joined with the Esperance community and its biennial Festival of the Wind to host a long table lunch featuring local food and highlighting food sustainability. A joint long table lunch is again being held at this year’s festival on Saturday 19 March in Ralph Bower park in Esperance.

Valerio Fantinelli, a Terra Madre 2010 youth and chef delegate and Slow Food Perth committee member, has arranged the menu and is travelling to Esperance to cook for this lunch. Valerio will be supported by several Slow Food Perth committee members.

Just 10 tickets remain available andif any Slow Food Perth member is interested in attending you should contact Wendy Stewart by email.

The Festival of the Wind marks the role that Esperance has played in the establishment of wind power generation in Western Australia. It was the location of site of the first wind farm in the state. There are numerous activities during the festival weekend from 18 to 20 March. See the festival website for more information.

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New Internationalist lauds Slow Food politics

On February 8, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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“STRANGE bedfellows these Slow Fooders” this odd combination of pleasure and politics has inspired the movement and still seems pretty durable says journalist Richard Swift in the latest “New Internationalist”. Swift also reports on the many aspects of Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre last year. Read the full article.

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Cyclone damages Spencers Brook Farm

On February 7, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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WITH so much devastation from the floods and cyclones in the East, we have heard little of the serious damage to farms in the York, Northam, Toodyay and Spencers Brook area during the last weekend of January 2011. Annie and Neil Kavanagh, free range pork and beef producers of Spencers Brook Farm was one of the farms severely damaged. Annie and Neil are Slow Food members and Annie was a delegate to Terra Madre last year. A working bee of volunteers will be arranged in the near future.

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Ducks steal Terra Madre Day picnic

On December 11, 2010, in event archive, the nose, by jamie
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LAKE Jualbup teal ducks and black swans in Perth’s Shenton Park joined Slow Food Perth’s Terra Madre Day shared picnic on 11 December and stole not only the crowd’s attention but also some picnic food. It was the perfect metaphor for a celebration of local food and eating locally, and the birds enjoyed their fill.

A small band of 15 Slow Food Perth members and friends – including Terra Madre 2010 chef-delegate Valerio Fantinelli – enjoyed the picnic, which featured a wonderful pie made from Wayne and Margaret Brock’s biodynamic bacon and fresh, free-range eggs, freshly-squeezed, preservative-free orange and lemon juice from Rocco and Connie Zampogna’s Golden Grove orchard at lower Chittering, and picked-today apricots from Maxinne and Rod Sclanders’ Cosham estate in the Perth hills.

Slow Food Perth co-leaders Pauline Tresise and Jamie Kronborg said a celebration of eating locally, and enjoying that food together, was at the heart of Terra Madre Day.

‘Today we have been part of almost 1200 events being held throughout the world to foster local community awareness of local food,’ they said. ‘We encouraged our picnic participants to go to their local farmers’ market this morning and buy some delicious, local, fresh produce, meat or cheese, or to make a salad from their kitchen garden.’

Terra Madre day events were held on and either side of 10 December – Slow Food’s twenty-first anniversary – in every corner of the world, in 124 countries.

From Australia and New Zealand to the Americas and Europe, Slow Food members, producers, food communities, cooks, academics, young people and musicians united in a collective global celebration of local food that is good, clean and fair.

The goal of this year’s Terra Madre Day was to collect funds to finance the creation of one thousand vegetable gardens in Africa: in schools, in villages, on the outskirts of cities. The Terra Madre gardens will be run by the communities, planted with local varieties and cultivated using sustainable techniques. The idea is not new, but comes from many agricultural and educational projects already ongoing in Kenya, Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Morocco, Ethiopia, Senegal and Tanzania.

The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity will manage the donations and coordinate activities in Africa.

> See Slow Food president Carlo Petrini’s message for Terra Madre Day

> To support 1000 Gardens in Africa, please email the project

> Find out more about Slow Food and Terra Madre

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