Terra Madre 2018 Up to four scholarships - worth up to $2,500 each - are on offer from Slow Food Hunter Valley. The scholarships were launched on the 26th March by chef and restaurateur, Tim Montgomery, the 2016 scholarship winner, Tom...
Read MoreThe next general meeting is on May 1st. Our general meetings are held every second month with committee-only meetings held in the alternate months. For a full list of all scheduled meetings (general and committee meetings) in 2018 please see...
Read MoreTake advantage of Maitland's very own paddock to plate Slow Food Earth Market. When? Thursday 3 May 2018 (2pm to 6pm). Held in The Levee (High Street, Maitland) on the first and third Thursday of every month. So come and support your local producers...
Read MoreSlow Food Hunter Valley will be at the Tocal Field Days this May. Please call back soon for further details.
Read MoreSlow Food Hunter Valley volunteers were thrilled to be running the Cool Bar at the Maitland Show. This gave us the opportunity to raise money to support the Buy a Bale Hunter Appeal for our local farmers. According to the Maitland Mercury “The Maitland Mercury, Newcastle Herald, Hunter Valley News and The Scone Advocate have joined forces with the charity Rural Aid and its Buy A Bale Campaign to help Hunter farmers as they fight to survive the dry conditions” (see full details here).
Our Cool Bar provided watermelon juice, iced black tea, iced flavoured (raspberry and strawberry) tea and watermelon granita.
Thank you to our farmers who came up with the produce in spite of the harsh weather. Thanks to Liz for her excellent teas, Andrew for keeping the ice supply going and making a huge contribution to the pack. Thanks to Amorelle for working behind the scenes as well as at the show. Thanks to Bob and Helen for making the yummy watermelon granita which was a hit and to everyone else who juiced, served, publicised, cleaned, sold, talked, cleaned some more, organised, sliced, diced, hefted watermelon, flogged achachas and … you guessed it … cleaned some more. Well done!
We would like to say thank you to Felicia and Amorelle who made a final push to increase sales by carrying around watermelons and doing the “hard sell” on stragglers and other traders at the show.
As a devastating drought continues to impact Hunter Valley - and other NSW - farmers, Slow Food volunteers in the Hunter region...
On ABC' Women's Work, read about how Amorelle Dempster turned a field of muddy pumpkins into a slow food revolution.
Our friends at Warners Bay Community Garden Inc. volunteered to turn several boxes of donated aprons into bags that can be used...
The Tocal Field Days were held on May 5, 6 and 7 this year. Slow Food Hunter Valley was engaged to look after...