Slow Food News & STORIES
Providing Culturally Appropriate Food for Communities in Sonoma County
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.
Slow Books Announces Abra Berens’ “Grist” as Third Annual Network-Wide Read-Along
Maybe you’ve joined Slow Books for our read-along programming for “How to Be An Antiracist” or “Braiding Sweetgrass,” or perhaps this will be your first read-along. Either way — we’re glad you’re here!
Making whole-vegetable cooking “badass” in Denver
In Denver, Sullivan Scrap Kitchen is upcycling odds and ends to create flavorful and environmentally conscious creations for 600 guests every week.
Connecting with Jewish and Indigenous people in Colorado through seeds
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.”
Remembering Slow Food leader Katherine Deumling
It is with great sorrow that the Slow Food USA staff, current Board, and former Board members announce the passing of Katherine Deumling, one of the lions of our movement. She passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 12 in the company of her loving family.
Slow Food USA announces Cultural Exchange Storytelling Grants
National food justice organization Slow Food USA is committed to amplifying voices from across our nation’s rich foodways through five feature stories produced by members of its network and/or members of the Food Systems Leadership Network. These Cultural Exchange Storytelling Grants are one way we will be doing so.
Carbon Markets: Rewarding Small Farmers or Protecting Big Ag Polluters?
The Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021 (GCSA), originally introduced in 2020 and revived by the 117th Congress, was passed by the Senate in June 2021. The bill aims to make it easier for “farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners” to enter voluntary environmental credit markets, namely carbon markets.
Slow Food Live presents Meating the Future: A conversation about the future of real and alternative meat
Slow Food groups across the Americas send antiracist motion to International Congress
Photo by Alyssa Rose The motion below was developed first by Slow Food Brasil, then expanded to include all Slow Food groups in the Americas. We will present this document to the International...
Learn about how Slow Food USA advanced food justice in 2021
By ANNA Mulè, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SLOW FOOD USA Last year was a challenging year for the Slow Food network. With COVID still severely limiting in-person gatherings, and many volunteer leaders in...
Summer reads from the Slow Books team
The Slow Books curators have hand-picked recommended readings to add to your summer reading list! Below you'll find a list of books that pair well with the issues that we're talking about and...
The Rebirth of the Lemon Cling Peach in South Carolina
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications CoordinatorIn 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...