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Slow Food Brisbane is a convivium of Slow Food International, which is a network of 100,000 members in 153 countries – grouped in 1,300 local chapters called convivia – that develops activities, projects and events at a local, regional and global level. These currently include:
- More than 5000 Slow Food initiatives each year
- 10,000 small producers involved in 314 Presidia projects
- 903 products at risk of extinction promoted through the Ark of Taste catalog
- 1,300 food education activities and 350 school gardens in 100 countries
- Terra Madre network activities which involve 2,000 food communities, 1,000 cooks, 500 academics and 1,000 young activists
To learn more go to www.slowfood.com
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Wessex Saddleback Pigs
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Great news for lovers of rare and endangered breeds
The Wessex Saddleback pig is the latest Australian addition onto the Slow Food International Ark of Taste.
If you want to hear an ABC radio interview with a Wessex Saddleback producer click on the link
http://blogs.abc.net.au/victoria/2011/07/red-and-the-wessex-saddleback.html