Join us for a conversation with community members, cacao farmers and cooks in the Chocó forest of Ecuador, where the biodiversity rivals that of the Amazon! We begin the session with an introduction to the region and the unique human, animal and plant life that lives...
Come join the chefs at Forest Ridge School to explore beekeeping with honeybees, mason bees, and leafcutter bees. Take a tour of the school gardens, apiaries, and orchards. Learn how you can support these pollinators and in return how they can support your gardens....
Seed saving is a valuable tool for food sovereignty, and as we see with the pandemic, the time is now for seed and food sovereignty. Seed saving also preserves food biodiversity and builds community. Learn how to plan to save seeds, the processes involved and how to...
Take a look at the 2020 Plant a Seed kit with Kim, talk about how to use it and explore the stories of the seeds. Lauren leads a backyard biodiversity exploration to conduct an audit of local plants, animals, and insect species found in her garden and backyard in...
Sugar Hubbard Squash “Dale and I joined Slow Food after [a friend] entered our Sugar Hubbard Squash into the Ark of Taste. Dales’ family had been growing squash since the early 1900s. This variety has been since the 1940s, when after WWII, Edwin Sherman...
Chimayó Chile Much as a wine forges its flavor against the hardships and through the abundances of its environment, the flavor of a chile pepper is a reflection of the conditions in which it was grown. The chile’s expressiveness of terroir has resulted in the wide and...
