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Slow Food Germany has awarded the Ursula Hudson Education Prize 2022 in Berlin to the project group "Sheep in the Vineyard" of the Rottenburg University of Applied Sciences, the State Viticulture Institute Freiburg and the University of Freiburg. The team led by Nicolas Schoof and Anita Kirmer is researching the potential of sheep in the vineyard. The animals achieve threefold synergistic effects: By grazing, they regulate weeds and reduce the use of pesticides, their dung nourishes insects and restores biodiversity, and at the same time they are a source of meat and wool. Jakob Hörl and Dr Nicolas Schoof accepted the award on behalf of the research group.
The board of trustees for the selection of the prize winner consisted of the author and moderator Dr Tanja Busse, Misereor CEO Pirmin Spiegel, Slow Food activist Barbara Assheuer, the chairwoman of the Free Bakers Anke Kähler and the winemaker Sebastian John.
Initiated in 2021, the Slow Food Germany (SFD) Education Award is named after long-time German Slow Food Chair Ursula Hudson, who passed away in the summer of 2020. She was considered a thought leader for the food revolution.
(uka / Photo: Slow Food - Marion Hunger)