Slow Food Mother City

It’s pomegranate season and, ever fond of foraging events, we’ve organised a picking of these unusual fruits, accompanied by a delicious and decadent long table picnic in the peach orchards of Hoogwater Farm. As those who came to last year’s fig-picking event at Hoogwater know, Madri puts on a lavish spread! This farmers’ feast will [...]

  Lecture 1: The Food Journey: what our labels tell us about our food (and what they don’t) This year, SFMC is planning a series of informative lectures aiming at empowering us all to become more ethical consumers. You can read more about the lecture series at the bottom of this post. For Lecture 1, [...]

*UPDATE: event fully booked* Slow Food Mother City is celebrating the last cozy days of winter with a visit to Lelieblom Farm just outside the West Coast town of Darling to sample waterblommetjies, an indigenous winter delicacy. Waterblommetjies are the flowers of the Cape Hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyos), which grows wild in vleis and on riverbanks [...]