Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland

The launch of Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland took place on the 30th of July at the Maleny Community Centre.

Guests included the Chairman of Slow Food Australia, Leonie Furber, who gave a short background to the 23-year old movement and officially launching the new convivium.

Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland will be hosting regular events, collectively known as ‘Slow
Thursday’, including showing food-related movies and documentaries, holding cooking classes, and
providing small-scale producers with an opportunity to showcase their food.

What is Slow Food?
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in
1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s
dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food
choices affect the rest of the world.

To do that, Slow Food brings together pleasure and responsibility, and makes them inseparable.
From convivial small-table events and taste workshops to international forums, Slow Food builds
community networks between grower and eater, agriculture and market, village and the world,
and at its heart celebrates and champions ’small, slow food’ in ways that enhance knowledge,
respect and passion.

Today, we have over 100,000 members in 132 countries.

Slow Food’s approach to agriculture, food production and gastronomy is based on the concept of
food quality defined by three interconnected principles: good, clean and fair.

• Good food is tasty and flavorsome, stimulating and satisfying for the senses;
• Clean food is produced in a way that respects ecosystems, animals, biodiversity and the
  landscape; its consumption is not harmful to human health.
• Fair food production is respectful of social justice, meaning fair pay and conditions for all
  involved; prices must be affordable for consumers and fair for producers.

Ten things Sunshine Coast residents can do to strengthen our food communities:

1. Join a Slow Food convivium

2. Trace your food sources

3. Shop at a local farmers’ market

4. Join a CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture) or vegetable box scheme

5. Invite a friend over to share a meal

6. Visit a farm in your area

7. Create a new food memory for a child – let them plant seeds or harvest food for a meal

8. Start a kitchen garden

9. Learn your local food history – find a food that is celebrated as being originally from or
best grown/produced in your part of the country

10. Find out more about Slow Food at www.slowfoodaustralia.com.au 

Julie Shelton
Founder/Leader - Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland
Supporting food that is good, clean and fair

PO Box 1139
Maleny, Queensland 4552
Australia

M +61 (0)439 944 690

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