Seminar - July 2021
Food Gardening in the Pandemic: Reflections on Pleasure, Time and Hope
Dr Kelly Donati, William Angliss Institute
For the Food Values Research Group's July 2021 seminar, we are pleased to welcome Dr Kelly Donati.
When Australia entered its first lockdown in March 2020, panicked shoppers packed supermarkets and gardening nurseries. Seeds, seedlings and soil were selling out as quickly as toilet paper, pasta and flour. Growing one's own food took on a new and more urgent meaning. In mid-June 2020, Sustain: the Australian Food Network undertook a survey to understand more about what edible gardening meant to people during those early months of the pandemic. What was initially intended to be a survey of a couple of hundred respondents ended up capturing the experiences of over 9,000 gardeners across Australia. This presentation explores a number of themes from the survey and their implications for public health beyond the pandemic.
When: Thursday, 22nd July 2021, 12-1 PM
Where: Online. Please RSVP to foodresearch@adelaide.edu.au
Dr Kelly Donati is a researcher at the William Angliss Institute. Her teaching responsibilities focus on gastronomy, food cultures, discourses of diet and health, the micro-politics of fermentation and community food systems. Her research also explores the convivial and lively co-productive collaborations between humans and nonhumans in small-scale farming practices.