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Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:29:32 +1000

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Kids Go Slow

Mon, 10 May 2010 12:44:57 +1000

What: Slow Food on the Blackall Range - Nourishing our Kids
When: Monday, 10 May 2010
Time: 5:45pm start
Where: RSL Hall, Maleny
Cost: no charge but donations invited
Book: Julie Shelton on julie@slowfoodsunshinecoast.org.au or 0439 944 690

Come and meet Leonie Shanahan from Edible School Gardens, and Laurent Vancam from Chef Laurent.

This gathering will explore how school gardens connect our kids with the source of their food, and ignite their passion for fresh and nourishing fruits and vegetables.

Chef Laurent's cooking demonstration will show how easy and simple it can be to give your kids healthy lunches, whether you make them at home or they are prepared at the school tuckshop.

Edible School Gardens

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:35:43 +1000

What: Slow Food in the Mary Valley
When: Monday, 26 April 2010
Time: 5:45pm start
Where: RSL Hall, Imbil
Cost: gold coin donation
Bring: plate of food to share (preferably local)
Book: Marie Hensley on 5488 6481 or 0408 708 803

Join food producers, chefs, processors, retailers, and other co-producers who are passionate about local food that is good, clean and fair.

Slow Food Mary Valley is excited to host a talk by Leonie Shanahan from Edible School Gardens.

Our program, which has been introduced into 12 schools on the Sunshine Coast, follows the principles of permaculture. There are 3 principles of Permaculture:
1. Earth Care
2. People Care and
3. Fair share (which covers reduction to consumption and sharing of seeds, plants and knowledge )

Students learn the life skills of growing organic food and the systems involved. The Edible School Gardens program is kid driven:
• the students design the garden
• the students implement the garden with the local school community
• the students maintain the garden
• the students enjoy the food from the garden
• experience the different methods of cooking food from the garden

Alternative (Slow) Food Systems

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:11:18 +1000

What: Alternative (Slow) Food Systems
When: Monday, 19 April 2010
Time: 5:45pm - 7:30pm
Where: Husk & Honey, Queen Street, Nambour
Cost: $10 per person to cover supper ($8 for members)

Come and hear Sonya Wallace talk about her community's Food Co-op, set up as one of Eudlo's Transition Town initiatives. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and find out about setting up a food-buying scheme from the get-go.
A small donation is requested to cover a light supper and to support Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland.
For more details, email julie@slowfoodsunshinecoast.org.au or phone 0439 944 690.

Slow Food on the Blackall Range

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:31:44 +1000

What: Slow Food on the Blackall Range
When: Monday, 12 April 2010
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Where: Montville Village Hall, just off Main Street
Cost: $10 per person to cover supper ($8 for members)

Members and friends of Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland invite you to come to a networking and information evening. Come and find out about the international Slow Food movement, connect with food producers, meet local chefs and share your thoughts with food lovers.
A light supper of nutrient-dense local foods will be provided.
For more information call Julie on 0439 944 690

Kenilworth Cheese Wine & Food Festival

Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:44:55 +1000

What: Kenilworth Cheese Wine & Food Festival
When: Saturday, 3 April 2010
Time: 7:00am - 3:00pm
Where: Kenilworth Park
Cost: no charge

Welcome to the Sunshine Coast's fabulous Kenilworth Cheese, Wine and Food Festival – your chance to indulge in all the best bounty of the renowned Mary Valley.

Join us on Easter Saturday for a memorable farm-to-fork feast. This will be a brilliant day for the whole family. Entry free.

Come and say hello to Slow Food at our stall!

Slow Food in the Mary Valley

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:45:58 +1000

What: Slow Food in the Mary Valley
When: Monday, 22 March 2010
Time: 5:45pm start
Where: RSL Hall, Imbil
Cost: gold coin donation
Book: Marie Hensley on 5488 6481 or 0408 708 803

Join food producers, chefs, processors, retailers, and other co-producers who are passionate about local food that is good, clean and fair.

Slow Food Mary Valley is presenting a movie evening at the Imbil RSL Hall. Please bring a plate of food to share (preferably local).

We would love your thoughts and ideas for Slow Food Mary Valley initiatives for our community for 2010 — please bring them along.

The Movie
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer. An outcast in his community, Farmer John bravely stands amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free expression, this powerful story of transformation and renewal heralds a resurrection of farming in America.

The film is a haunting odyssey, capturing what it means to be different in rural America.

Director Taggart Siegel Collective Eye made the film in a most unusual way – shooting farmer John Peterson over 25-years of their evolving friendship, and using multiple media, from 8 mm home movies shot on the farm in the 50’s and 60’s to modern video -- allowing him to capture his alternately humorous, heartbreaking and spirited life with raw drama and intimacy.

With the death of his father during the late 60s, a teenaged John takes over the traditional family farm, slowly turning it into an experiment of art and agriculture, making it a haven for hippies, radicals and artists. The Real Dirt on Farmer John charts the end of this idealistic era as the farm debt crisis of the 80’s brings about the tragic collapse of the farm.

As the intricate weave of rural America unravels, vicious local rumors turn John into a scapegoat, condemning him as a Satan-worshipping drug-dealer. Threatened with murder, his home burned to the ground, John forsakes his farm and wanders through Mexico, where he is transformed by the soulfulness and pageantry of this ancient land. Mysteriously, his quest leads him back to his hostile homeland.

Defying all odds, he gradually transforms his land into a revolutionary farming community, a cultural mecca, where people work and flourish providing fresh vegetables and herbs to thousands of people every week.

The Peterson family farm has become Angelic Organics, one of the largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in the United States, a beacon of today’s booming organic farming movement.

Local F.A.D. at Pomodoras

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:29:14 +1000

What: March F.A.D. (Food Appreciation Dinner)
When: Saturday, 20 March 2010
Time: 6:00pm for 6:30pm start
Where: Pomodoras on coral
Cost: $70 per person BYO
 This year we will be focusing on what produce (local where possible) is in season at that time of the year, showcasing local produce and local suppliers as guest speakers. We will be holding these Food Events once every two months, with an end of year Seafood Special.

To be a part of these successful evenings, we ask you to pre-book your seats. Menu will be advised a week before event date.
 SUMMER/AUTUMN – 20TH MARCH – Bookings are now being taken Game, mushrooms, passionfruit, blackberries, cuttlefish, mullet, pistachios, eggplant, silverbeet, grapes & limes

Jodi & Chris Bond and the Pomodoras Team
Pomodoras on coral
34 Coral Street, Maleny
P: (07) 5429 6543
www.pomodoras.com.au

Slow Food in Nambour

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:40:11 +1000

What: Slow Food in Nambour
When: Monday, 15 March 2010
Time: 5:45pm start
Where: Husk & Honey Cafe - Queen Street, Nambour
Cost: $10pp
Book: Julie Shelton on 0439 944 690

Join food producers, chefs, processors, retailers, and other co-producers who are passionate about local food that is good, clean and fair.

A light grain-free supper of local foods will be served before a screening of "Terra Madre 2008". Julie will talk about her experience at this international conference, and what delegates to this year's conference can expect.

Come and join the discussion about what the Nambour Area Group would like to see happen in 2010.

Cost is $10 (includes $2 to Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland).

Slow Food in Maleny

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:29:21 +1000

What: Slow Food in Maleny
When: Monday, 8 March 2010
Time: 5:45pm start
Where: to be advised
Cost: gold coin donation
Book: Julie Shelton on 0439 944 690

Please bring a plate of local food to share.

Join food producers, chefs, processors, retailers, and other co-producers who are passionate about local food that is good, clean and fair.

Following a supper of local foods we will be screening "Terra Madre 2008" (about 25 minutes). Julie will talk about her experience at this international conference, and what delegates to this year's conference can expect.

Come and join the discussion about what the Maleny Area Group would like to see happen in 2010.

Slow Food Noosa February Breakfast

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:09:57 +1000

What: Slow Food Noosa February Breakfast
When: Thursday, 25 February 2010
Time: 8:30am
Where: Blue Ginger Restaurant, Evergreen Centre, Eumundi Road, Noosaville
Cost: $24 for members of Slow Food
$26 for non-members
Book: slowfoodnoosa3@bipgond.com or Anne Briggs 5474 5585

The first Slow Food breakfast for the year will take place on Thursday 25th February. We are returning to Blue Ginger Restaurant at the Evergreen Centre, as we found it to be such a fantastic venue providing us with good food and excellent service.

Our speaker will be Philippa Schroder of the Hermitage Foundation which was founded in 1975 and is well known on the Sunshine Coast for their stalls in the local Farmer's Markets and their Eumundi Furniture Shop showcasing their own furniture.

Self Sufficiency and Community as a primary purpose has been their own by-law for thirty five years. They make hand made food that contains the produce of their own gardens and orchards for sale direct to customers at the markets – strictly locally.

Passionately interested in the Wholeness of things and how this can heal the planet they are far from sentimental and impractical – they are well known for their dedication to quality and industriousness.

The Community was originally inspired after extensive time spent at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland which has been in existence for almost 50 years where it is said that vegetables and fruit were produced with the aid of the devas and nature spirits – on soil that was almost pure sand and buffeted by gales from the north sea.

The aims of the Hermitage are closely allied to those of the Slow Food Movement, Permaculture and the Transition Towns Initiative and they use the WWOOF Scheme to recruit volunteers to both contribute to the overall purpose of the Hermitage and also to learn from their vast experience over many decades of actual practical experience.

This breakfast promises to be a fun occasion with some delicious food cooked by Ona Klova, Blue Ginger’s new chef.

Bookings are essential for catering purposes, to avoid disappointment book no later than Tuesday 23rd February 2010.

Mary Valley Movie Evening

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:18:57 +1000

What: Slow Food Mary Valley - movie evening
When: Thursday, 18 February 2010
Time: 6:00pm start
Where: RSL Hall, Imbil
Cost: gold coin donation
Book: Marie Hensley on 5488 6481 or 0408 708 803

Slow Food Mary Valley is presenting a movie evening at the Imbil RSL Hall. Please bring a plate of food to share (preferably local).

We would love your thoughts and ideas for Slow Food Mary Valley initiatives for our community for 2010 — please bring them along.

The Movie
The Power of Community, is a must for anyone wanting to learn more about being resourceful through community and co-operation when it comes to conservation of energy. When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990’s the country faced an immediate crisis – feeding the population – and an ongoing challenge: how to create new low-energy society. Cuba transformed from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farms and urban gardens, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one.

This film tells the story of the Cuban people’s hard- ship, ingenuity and triumph over sudden adversity – through co-operation, conservation and community, told in their own words.

“Cuba survived an energy famine during the 1990’s, and how it did so constitutes one of the most important and hopeful stories of the past few decades. It is a story not just of individual achievement, but of the collective mobilisation of an entire society to meet an enormous challenge.” – Richard Heinberg, author of The Party’s Over, Powerdown

Terra Madre Day - all around the world!

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:56:39 +1000

What: Terra Madre Day
When: Thursday, 10 December 2009
Time: all day
Where: throughout the Sunshine Coast - click here for more details

SLOW Food has launched a worldwide Terra Madre Day to be held on 10 December 2009. Slow Food international councillors – 40 representatives of the association, from 20 countries around the world - met on 13 and 14 June in the Tuscan town of Alberese to discuss the key strategies for the future of Slow Food. The meeting’s particular focus was on the further development of the Terra Madre network and the increasingly important involvement and leadership from youth.
A key outcome of the meeting is the introduction of a worldwide Terra Madre Day, with the first edition to be held on 10 December 2009 - Slow Food International’s twentieth anniversary. This day will be recognised by the Slow Food network, across the 150 countries in which it is active, to celebrate ‘eating local’ and the crucial work being done by the Terra Madre food communities – a network of farmers, artisan producers, cooks, academics and youth for sustainable food production launched by Slow Food in 2004.
‘Terra Madre Day is a way to celebrate our connection to the earth’, said Slow Food international president Carlo Petrini. ‘It doesn’t matter how we celebrate it - you can celebrate it at home, or organize a community or school event, the important thing is that we celebrate eating local.’
Petrini identified some of the key considerations at the base of the Slow Food philosophy to be celebrated and promoted through Terra Madre Day:
- Food is a right for everyone;
- Small-scale farming is the future;
- Food sovereignty is key to communities;
- Biodiversity is essential to a healthy food future;
- We have the right to preserve our cultural and local identities;
- Agriculture is closely linked to the environment;
- Food production and trade must be socially just.
For more information on Terra Madre Day around the world click here.
Click here for more information about Terra Madre Day - Sunshine Coast Hinterland style!