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.
Heliculture provides opportunities for undergraduates participating in the Dirty hands school and community kitchen garden project to be in the vanguard of Heliculture’s development on campus. Local campus pods are linked with – and supported by – local Slow Food convivia.
Heliculture draws inspiration from Slow Food USA’s Slow Food on campus which extends to four of America’s major universities, including Yale and Carnegie Mellon. An Australian Heliculture pod is designed to attract students of horticulture, agriculture, botany and associated field degrees at Australia’s tertiary education institutions, encompassing the university and TAFE sectors. The vision extends to the engagement of students of nutrition and associated health fields. As a first step, Slow Food Australia wants to enagage pod-member students to work with participating primary and secondary schools in its national school kitchen garden Dirty hands project.
If you are a student at an Australian tertiary education institution and you’re interested in establishing a campus pod, please email Joy Durston at Slow Food Australia membership services.
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