A Year of Slow Food: Four Seasons of Growing and Making Your Own Food in the Australian Countryside

Twenty-five years ago, David and Gerda Foster and their young family moved to Bundanoon, in the fertile Southern Highlands of NSW. They had a yearning to farm. They wanted to eat slow food. Although completely inexperiences, they learned through trial and error how to milk a cow, plant crops, repair their almost derelict house, and grow enough food to feem themselves.The eight children are now adults and David, a Miles Franklin award-winning author, still chops wood, makes bread and cheese, and keeps bees, while Gerda uses fresh food as therapy in her work as a counsellor in a maximum security prison. This is the story of a year in their life, with a recipe for each week using what’s ripe in their garden. It is also the story of a particular approach to life, in which the growing, preparation and eating of food plays a central part.