Newsletters from The Village Organc Farm

We've joined the community of bloggers! This is partly because we've already had a number of requests from friends and colleagues for current news of our impending travels (see below). But also it will help us to document what we see, hear, touch and taste - and for that documentation to be fresh.
Pat, Julie and Oliver are about to embark on an adventure to New Zealand, USA, Ireland, England, France and Italy. This is due to Julie being awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to investigate regulatory "impediments to artisanal food {production} and initiatives that nourish relationships between producers and consumers". Quite an ambitious project but one that will reap many rewards.
We won't commit to adding to the blogs on a particular day of the week but it's likely that we'll be contributing something at least once a week. By the way, we leave Australia on the 29th of July and we're due to return mid-January 2009.
Looking forward to blogging with you!

Our Itinerary

27 Aug - Fly to San Francisco

29 Aug to 01 Sep - Slow Food Nation, San Francisco

02 Sep - meet with Jessica Prentice

03 Sep - Fly to Dublin, drive to Waterford

04 Sep to 07 Sep - Terra Madre Ireland, Waterford

08 Sep - Tour of food producers, Cork, Co. Cork

09 Sep - Dingle, Co. Kerry

10 Sep to 11 Sep - Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare

12 Sep - Westport, Co. Mayo

13 Sep to 14 Sep - Dromahair, Co. Leitrim

15 Sep - National Organic Centre, Rossinver, drive to Dublin

16 Sep - Fly to London

17 Sep - London Farmers' Markets &
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

19 Sep - Train to Bath, drive to Pennsylvania Farm

21 Sep - Stonehenge / Avebury

22 Sep to 25 Sep - Plunkett Foundation, Soil Association,
Duchy Home Farm

26 Sep - Train to London

27 Sep - Notting Hill Farmers' Market

28 Sep - Greenwich

29 Sep - Fly to Lyon, collect hire car

01 Oct - Tour of food producers, Rhone Valley

02 Oct - Drive to Montpellier

03 Oct - office of Slow Food France, Montpellier

04 Oct - Drive to Aix-en-Provence via Arles market

05 Oct - Avignon

07 Oct - Aix-en-Provence market

08 Oct - Train to Nice

10 Oct - Train to Parma

13 Oct to 14 Oct - University of Gastronomic Science(UniSG),
Colorno campus

16 Oct - Tour of Parmesan Cheese Consortium & parma ham producers

20 Oct - Train to Bologna - day trip

21 Oct - European Food Safety Authority

22 Oct - Bus to Turin

23 Oct to 27 Oct - Terra Madre International, Turin

28 Oct to 30 Oct - UniSG, Pollenzo campus &
Slow Food Head Office, Bra

31 Oct to 15 Nov - Own arrangements (going bush)

16 Nov to 21 Nov - 'Real Food: Slow Food' program,
Shumacher College

22 Nov to 11 Jan - Own arrangements (going bush again)

12 Jan - Fly to Singapore

13 Jan to 15 Jan - Singapore

16 Jan - Fly to Brisbane, arrive 17 Jan

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