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Trusting Your Senses...A Slow Approach to
SustainabilityDr. Ursula Hudson
Slow food• Is a grassroots movement• Is a not for profit organisation• It operates worldwide
• It promotes the right for everyone to enjoy their food
Slow food core principles
•Good
•Clean
•Fair
Good, Clean and FairFood Choices
• lead to good quality food• lead to cleaner production, distribution
and consumption• produce a better connected food culture
that leads to• wider changes regarding
– increased individual health and wellbeing– increased biodiversity– less impact on climate change– increased social justice
SF International areas of work
• Sensory Education• School Gardens• Foundation for Biodiversity• Ark of Taste• Presidia• Granos• Food networks• Terra Madre: biannual world meeting of
local food communities
To achieve this, local SF groups:
tune the food senses – tastings – experience the delight of
really good food, which is also clean and fair
– meet the producer – understand where good food comes from
– children: those with food senses tuned eat healthily…
… and learn to prepare it well
To achieve this, local SF groups
produce a sense of locality by – understanding where the food is
produced – food like wine: place, soil, aspect, local
varieties and breeds– food has identity – flavour and nutrition
attached to where and how it is grown – reviving traditions and biodiversity
– this is how quite naturally food is situated within a geographical network
– supporting the local networks
Slow activities that encourage sustainable food choices • School meal and school garden projects (“The
Edible Schoolyard”)
• Tastings, sensory training, hands-on events
• Producer visits
• Farmers’ markets and local food networks
• Community growing networks and seed swap events
• Community supported agriculture and garden projects
• Local currency schemes
• Aim at Food Self Sufficiency - Sitopia
Building Food Knowledge
Producer Visits
Building Food Knowledge and Food Networks
Celebration of Local Food
Building Food Knowledge
Apple Day
Transition Town Lewes and the Lewes Pound
Due South, the Brighton beach restaurant, sends its chefs to Patcham High School to give workshops on how to cook locally sourced food
Bringing in the restaurateur
What Slow Food does
• It encourages us to trust our food senses and take pleasure in food as a right.
• This trust in our food senses leads to making sensible, responsible, sustainable food decisions that help to build sustainable and bio-diverse food networks.
• From the most local – our own senses – through increased enjoyment of one our most important activities –eating - to ‘saving the planet’.