SLOW Food is launching Terra Madre Day around the world, to be held for the first time on 10 December this year. Slow Food convivia, Terra Madre food communities and all people supportive of our ideals are invited to organise an event, however small or symbolic, in your local area. By taking this opportunity with passion and inclusiveness, we can achieve one of the largest collective occasions celebrating food diversity ever achieved on a global scale. A global revolution can only grow from local roots, and together our community actions will help build opposition to the misguided approach of agribusiness. We invite you to let loose your creativity and make December 10 a memorable day, encouraging and supporting sustainable food in your corner of the world. It will give us all a boost and renewed pride in what we are doing locally, while knowing that we are part of a world network for change.
Carlo Petrini
International president and founder
Slow Food
TERRA Madre Day is being celebrated across the world and across Australia in early December 2009. In food communities and among Slow Food convivia, people will come together to enjoy good, fair and clean food and champion small-scale food production and food diversity.
As Slow Food international president and founder Carlo Petrini said in Australia in October 2009: ‘Let me tell you one thing. In Europe we must defend historical biodiversity. Instead, here in Australia, you must create a new biodiversity. Let the producers create this new biodiversity. Let Australians use their creativity and become the protagonists of the future, as it happened with wine, as must happen with cheese, with beer, with tomatoes, and animal breeds. In this way you can defend your identity. In this way we can defend the future to be handed over to future generations.’
Terra Madre Day Australian events
- Australian event listing
International website