Overwintering Art Exhibition Burnie
Drink your vegetables! Turning surplus vegetables into a powder and drinking your vegetables may not only be for space travel, but in your kitchen sooner than you think. This is an innovative way to stop food waste and help the environment. Nutri V, a new food manufacturing company, has been formed by leading vegetable grower Fresh Select, and Australia’s national science agency CSIRO.
Foodwaste costs the Australian economy $20 billion each year and about 20 per cent of all Australian-grown vegetables are wasted before reaching the shelves.
Ruddy Turnstones, hand -coloured linocut, by Kit Hiller Site: Moorlands Beach near Devonport Tasmania
This summer, the Burnie Regional Art Gallery is hosting a special exhibition focussing on the migratory shorebirds which travel to our beautiful island, Tasmania. The Overwintering Project is an environmental art project which invites artists from Australia and New Zealand to research and respond to the unique nature of their local migratory shorebird habitat. Our Cradle Coast migratory shorebirds spend the warmer months of the year in crucial productive habitat on our shorelines and wetlands, and as the seasons change come May, they sense the shift towards cooler days and prepare to fly thousands of kilometres north to Alaska and Siberia to breed. And do you know the crazy thing? They then fly all the way back again, when the northern hemisphere starts to cool, to feed once more on Tasmanian shores during our summer. And they do this every year of their adult life. The Overwintering Project – Mapping Sanctuary exhibition Held at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery 18 December 2020 - 6 February 2021. For more information follow this link: www.burniearts.net/WhatsOn/Exhibitions/The-Overwintering-Project
The products under development would minimise wastage by using the entire crop to make powders and purees with enhanced nutritional content thanks to CSIRO’s applications. CSIRO scientist Dr Pablo Juliano said Nutri V was turning cutting-edge food science into products for all Australians to enjoy while making a difference for the planet. “We’ve been able to apply our expertise in creating nutrient-dense foods with innovative techniques to tackle the challenge of converting what might otherwise be lowervalue crops into foods with enhanced nutritional profiles,” Dr Juliano said. For more information go to: www.csiro.au/en/News/Newsreleases/2020/A-spoonful-of-powder-helpsthe-vegetables-go-down
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