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Melaleuca bark. Image: Jamie Kronborg 2010Slab Hut creek, Western Australia. Image: Jamie Kronborg 2008Bull-boar sausage workshop at A Taste of Slow 2006. Image: Wen LimPreserves at A Taste of Slow 2006. Image: Anna Cleeman

SLOW Food Australia has more than 2000 members in all regions of the country, from a cheesemaker in south-eastern Tasmania to a boab-tuber grower in Kununurra in north-western Australia, and in regional capitals, country towns and farming communities.

Red mignonette and oak-leaf lettuce. Image: Jamie KronborgAustralian convivia in diverse parts of the country organise major events and activities including:

  • Melbourne – A Taste of Slow, a biennial event encompassing food forums, workshops and markets
  • Adelaide and Barossa – Barossa Slow, a biennial event celebrating the food culture of the Barossa Valley
  • Perth – Small, slow food at the Mundaring Truffle Festival
  • Canberra – Slow soup kitchens, food of value, not price
  • Western Australia – Small food awards, an annual cross-convivia project in Western Australia to recognise rural food producers, chefs and enterprises

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