It's Western Australian Biodynamic Festival at High Vale, Pickering Brook, this Sunday (22 Nov).

The festival runs from 10am to 4pm at High Vale Orchard, 35 Merivale Road. Our friends at Slow Food will be there making and selling wood-fired pizza and Pickering Brook's own Champion roasted-mushrooms to raise funds for next year's Western Australian Terra Madre delegation and thier school kitchen garden project, ‘Food with latitude’, launched by Carlo Petrini in Perth last month [see SPICE 17].

There will be orchard tours, tree-pruning demonstrations, talks at 11:15am and 2:15pm by Williams farmer and 2006 Terra Madre delegate William Newton-Wordsworth on 'social responsibility and agriculture: contradiction or necessity?', and cooking demonstrations by chef Nico Moretti. [see 15]

And, of course plenty of things for the kids and lots of produce.

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If you're heading down South this weekend (and half your luck if you are - we'll be working all night putting Summer SPICE together, not that we're complaining mind) be sure to drop in at Cowaramup on Saturday to see the best of the community.

CowTown Focus, Pioneer Park, Cowaramup.
14th November 2009, 10am-8pm

· Wines . Ales . Local Produce . Live Music . Markets . Kids Games . More!
· Kids Poster Comp: create a poster, bring on the day to win

Gates open: 10am. Tasting Lounge 12-5pm. Live Acts 4pm-8pm
Adults $5 entry, Kids $2
Call Katie Earl 0448897717 for more information.

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... are on this weekend. The general public (that's you) are encouraged to come along to support and taste some really nicely made coffees. Details and map here and you can have a look at the poster here.

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If a friend were to send you a text message on a Saturday morning asking nicely of you knew where they could buy some good pizza bases, you might text them back shaming them for even thinking of not making their own. [no names here]
Or you could helpfully send them to Anchor's handy pizza making site, pizzabase.
Videos!

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