Slow Food Mother City

Dear Slow Food enthusiasts, On Saturday 11 June 2011, Slow Food Mother City will be visiting the Green Point Park & Biodiversity Garden. The Biodiversity Showcase Garden is situated in the new Green Point Park in Cape Town. It features over 300 local Cape plant species, animal sculptures, interactive displays, demonstration gardens, a Khoikhoi display [...]

**UPDATE: Event postponed to Sunday 27 March 2011 (nature isn’t playing along, and there are no chestnuts to be gathered!).  The event is already fully booked, but if you’d like to join the waiting list, please email events@slowfoodmothercity.co.za** On Sunday, 13 March 2011 27 March 2011, we will be visiting beautiful Glendirk Farm, one of [...]

This is a brief notice to let Slow Food members and enthusiasts know that a few of us will be visiting the Paul Cluver ‘Garden of Elgin’ tomorrow morning (Tuesday 11 January 2011), and we invite anyone interested to come along.

Saturday 11 September, 2010 On Saturday 11th September our sister convivium, Slow Food Cape Town, will be visiting Solms Delta wine estate outside Franschhoek to tour their culinary veldkos (indigenous food) garden project. They have kindly invited us to come along. You can view their invitation here. Now, here’s the complicated part. They have also [...]

Slow Food Mother City will be hosting an introduction to the pleasures of preserving with Oded Schwartz on 10 April. Join us for two hours of preserving history, theory, skills and tips, shared in a convivial atmosphere in Oded’s own kitchen. We’ll be tasting Oded’s preserves and pickles, and washing them down with Jack Black beer.