Food Rescue Kitchen
The beating heart of Slow Food Hunter Valley is our Food Rescue and Kitchen. It demonstrates our fight for food equity while reducing food waste and building community. Our volunteers work and play at the FR&K 5 days a week and produce around 14,000 meals a year for those in need in our community.
Seed Library
The Maitland Seed Library is nurturing a circular food system where community grown seed is harvested and gifted to the locals, on repeat. A warm community of welcoming volunteers support this lovely project.
On the Pulse
What’s in a bean? In Slow Food’s philosophy, beans perfectly embody our motto of “good, clean, and fair” food. Good – tasty and healthy to eat. Clean – environmentally sustainable to grow. Fair – respectful of local farmers and communities.
Food is LIfe
Food is life and without good food in your stomach to nourish a growing brain and allow learning to happen, the future of those living in hardship is precarious. The Food is Life Project supports some of our most vulnerable communities.
Slow Food Farms
Identifying, supporting and connecting good, clean and fair food producers who practise agroecological principles is the motivation behind this Slow Food International initiative. And we have registered three such wonderful producers in our Slow Food community right here.
Hume Housing Community Garden
The Hume Housing Community Garden project revolves around a small, edible garden in an over 55’s public housing complex in Rutherford. Under the guidance of Slow Food Hunter Valley, a range of seasonal herbs, fruit and vegetables are grown for the residents to enjoy. Volunteers meet and support our local community where they live!
Bringing Back the Bees
Where have all the bees gone? This project, Bringing Back the Bees, started as our response to the devastation caused by the arrival of Varroa mite in June 2022, which is severely impacting Maitland’s iconic pumpkin and melon crops. We are bringing the buzz back to Maitland.