Welcome to Slow Food in Australia
SLOW Food is an international not-for-profit organisation founded in 1986 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, 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 – people, communities, animals, plants and the environment. Slow Food is based in Bra, Italy. It has almost 100,000 members in 132 countries. Slow Food Australia – Slow Food’s first national association in the southern hemisphere – has 42 convivia, or branches. All of our activities are co-ordinated by volunteers.
Our convivia are at the heart of what we do. Across the country, we foster community awareness and celebrate and champion food that is good, clean and fair. We work with artisan producers to market their foods, help school communities to develop kitchen gardens, promote food traditions and knowledge, and organise tasting workshops and events through which we learn about the source of food, farming methods, and the importance of food sustainability for ourselves and the planet. Slow Food Australia has also developed national projects to support local convivia activities and events.
You can help us.
- Join our project teams
- Campaign for Australian raw milk cheese
- Discover fruits at risk of loss
- Help us to ’stop the cement’ – Australia’s urban sprawl encroaching on productive farmland
- Contribute to our publications
- Participate in a convivium
- Volunteer for our national information collection project to document our food cultures
- Join us