Spudhunters

Gary Thomas, chef and member of Slow Food Central Victoria, has created a fabulous educational tool to teach the young (of any age) about potatoes. Its first outing was last weekend as part of A Taste of Slow. Here's what Gary had to say:

The slow food education activity I set up for kids at fed square over the weekend ran so well that we had to beat a whole pile of adults off as well. Why didn't they just hang around the microbrewery tents, I wonder?

Most importantly, it's just a whole lot of fun to see the look on a kid's face as they dig up a spud for the first time ever and connect the dots on the food life cycle.

Gary's now looking for a cook, a teacher and a farmer to help out at the Ballarat Farm Expo at the end of March.