Aug 11, 2022 | Biodiversity, Food and Farming, Food Justice, Snailblazer/Snail of Approval
Farm to Fight Hunger is a nonprofit organization that grows, harvests and delivers fresh, nutritious produce, free of charge, to those in California’s Sonoma County in need of healthy food. Eggs laid by happy, pastured hens are also donated to local food banks.
Jul 21, 2022 | Biodiversity, Slow Food Chapters, Slow Seed
In October 2021, Slow Food Denver co-hosted their first annual seed-saving event at Ekar Farm, an organization that serves as a “focal point for Denver’s Jewish community to come together around issues of food security, environmentalism, and urban farming,” and Spirit of the Sun, an “indigenous womxn-led nonprofit working to empower Native communities, one youth at a time.”
Jun 22, 2022 | Ark of Taste, Biodiversity, Chapter Highlight, Slow Food Chapters
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications Coordinator In 2017, Slow Food Charleston embarked on an Ark of Taste project to preserve the iconic Lemon Cling Peach. As described by Timothy Matlack, a brewer and leader of the American Revolutionary War, to Thomas Jefferson, the...Jun 16, 2022 | EIJ, Food Justice, Stories
In conversation with Jim Embry, Activist And Farmer, Sustainable Communities Network Edited by Michelle DiMuzio Can you tell us about the meaning and legacy of Juneteenth from your perspective? In my family, we had three great great grandfathers that mustered in at...Jun 13, 2022 | Policy & Public Health, Slow Fish
By ERYN KELLY, SLOW FOOD USA POLICY COORDINATOR What is Aquaculture? Aquaculture is the cultivation and harvesting of aquatic plants and seafood. Done correctly, in balance with nature, it can be ecologically and economically successful in both freshwater ecosystems,...