[Foodtech] Indigeneous food project

[Tran, Lorraine I]

Dear colleague

A Victorian Aboriginal community has returned to traditional
hunter-gatherer methods to solve food shortages and improve healthy
eating.

Victoria University has been working with the Wathaurong Aboriginal
Co-operative in Geelong to reignite passion for traditional cooking
methods, improve access to healthy foods and help close the health gap
between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

The project, funded by VicHealth, has led to the development of an
Aboriginal television cooking series planned to be aired on community
TV, the publication of a specialised cookbook and the distribution of
children's plates depicting healthy food portions.

http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/Media-Centre/Media-Releases-by-Topic/Kno
wledge/Aboriginal-community-recreates-hunter-gatherer-culture-to-end-foo
d-shortage.aspx

 

This project could provide a good link to the new VCE Food and
Technology Study Design to be implemented in 2011, specifically with
Unit 2 Area of study 2. 

 

Regards, Lorraine.

 

 

Lorraine Tran I Curriculum Manager 

 

VELS Design, Creativity and Technology  

VCE Agricultural and Horticultural Studies I VCE Food and Technology  

VCE Design and Technology I VCE Systems Engineering

 

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