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Australian projects

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Slow knowledge / Slow knowledge captures and promotes information about Australian producers, chefs, cooks and food communities. Project programmes include Slow grass, A Slow Food guide to Australia and Slow food at the edge of the world.

Dirty hands / Dirty hands is a school and community garden development programme supporting communities and collaborative organisations to enhance children’s and community food, health and ecological knowledge and awareness. It extends to a kids-own gardening web called Pod lento.

Heliculture / Heliculture – the farming of snails – is the name of Slow Food Australia’s vigorous membership development programme in universities and colleges to foster participation in the organisation by young Australians.

Australian Ark / The Australian Ark works with Slow Food Australia convivia and communities to catalogue foods at risk of loss and propose food communities for development as præsidia – small scale projects that help producers in their communities to develop markets for traditional foods.

Bush know-how / Bush know-how is a collaborative project with Australian indigenous communities to sustain and extend bush food diversity, knowledge and market awareness.

23º Slow / 23º Slow is a bold, strategic confederation of Slow Food convivia and associations in all national communities bisected by latitude 23° South – the Tropic of Capricorn – that fosters the exchange of ideas and information to enhance awareness of indigenous foods, food diversity, sustainability and culture.