Slow Food Farms

SLOW FOOD FARMS

AN INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE

Sue Dennis leads this project which began for Slow Food Hunter Valley in 2025. Sue Dennis and Amorelle Dempster have completed the Slow Food Farm Accelerator Training and are now supporting our local producers – especially our Earth Market Maitland producers – to farm in tune with agroecological principles.

Agroecology is a holistic approach to farming that integrates ecological, social, and cultural principles to create sustainable, resilient, and equitable agricultural practices. Hmm… sounds a bit like good, clean and fair food for all!

As a Slow Food International intiative, Slow Food Farms is a global network and right here in the Hunter Valley we have Sue’s Nebo Farm at Morpeth, Marcus’ backyard food garden in Bolwarra Heights and Carinya Downs at Lochinvar who have joined this network.

As part of the network they can build relationships and contribute to the growth of sustainable practices to feed our world and look after Mother Earth.

We are excited to see how many other local producers will come on board this year.

Acknowledgement of Place

Slow Food Hunter Valley acknowledges that we live and work on the lands of the Wannaruah, Worimi & Awabakal people, who cared for and shared the abundance of our Mother Earth, sustainably, for thousands of years. They inspire us in our vision of good, clean, fair food for all.

We wish to pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

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Slow Food International

Slow Food is an international movement with communities (groups) in over 160 countries across the world. Each community does what it can in its local area to support and promote the ethos of “good, clean and fair food for all”. This means defending biological and cultural diversity, looking to educate, inspire and mobilise those around us, and seeking to influence public decision-making and the private sector