Slow Food Johannesburg’s Annual General Meeting was held at the Sing Fei restaurant in Craighall Park in May.
Apart from Robyn who has moved to Australia, the same committee have agreed to stay on:
Tim Truluck (Leader), Lekha Amod (Treasurer), Liz Pringle (Secretary), Caroline Whitehead (Membership), Howard Shenker (Local Foods), Andrew Adrian, Dennis Conway, Nanette Nel, Mike Crewe-Brown. Our thanks to Dennis who has been performing the task of Secretary and consulting Treasurer for some years now.
We’re especially pleased to welcome 3 new members: Clair Webber, Stuart Wilson and Jona Tatalias. Welcome aboard and we hope that you will find it exciting and informative.
Over the past year we have had several workshops on the direction we want to take with Slow Food Jo’burg. One major outcome was to concentrate on developing the local and seasonal knowledge of our members and other Jo’burg residents. The composition of our committee is starting to reflect this.
- We now have 3 committee members (Caroline, Stuart and Claire) who are stall-holders at the Jozi Market held at Pirates Sports Club every Saturday from 9am-2pm.
- We also have Mike who lives on a farm at Skeerpoort (near Hartbeespoort) and who is experimenting with growing and raising different types of fruit trees, crops and livestock.
- Howard will soon be launching the Slow Food Joburg Local Food Group and is working with the Bamboo Market in Melville (held every Saturday morning) to start registering Slow Food accredited stalls that align with the Slow Food Earth Market concept.
- Our Slow Food Johannesburg website will soon be up and running, and will have a strong local/seasonal/small producer theme and producer/product/market listings.
Our thanks to all the members who attended the meeting; and to Sing Fei for a memorable meal.
