Taitokerau Organic Producers

Invites you to reconnect with local food...

Join us at Pukerau Gardens Ohaeawai

(follow SH12 from Ohaeawai about 2 km towards Kaikohe, sign on right)

10 December starting at 10.30am

In 2009 the very first Terra Madre Day organized by Slow Food saw more than 1,000 events take place across 120 countries in one of the largest collective occasions celebrating food diversity and the right to good, clean and fair food ever achieved on a global scale. Slow Food convivia and Terra Madre communities brought the voice of small-scale farmers and producers, responsible cooks and concerned consumers to their regions, expressing how our global campaign for better food begins with local sustainable economies that make our lives more pleasurable.

Once again we invite your to celebrate the importance of eating locally on December 10 by joining us at Pukerau Gardens Ohaeawai to celebrate this International day of slow food.

We are having a slow food cook off, so if you want to join in bring one these of 3 ingredients, meat, seafood, or pasta, the rest of the ingredients required to complete your meal you will need to forage from our garden.

If this is not for you, (cooking that is) but you would like to learn what fresh foods go into new and exciting recipes or just want to indulge in the yummy kai that is prepared - this is the place to be. At the same time help to promote better food systems; by creating a global revolution with local roots.

For more information on the Slow Food movement and its relationship to sustainable living click on Slowfood.

And for more info on TOPIS and the local community that supports growing, trading and enjoying local sustainable kai, click on TOPIS