Understanding a great, generous green during Collard Week 2023
By Mara Welton, Director of Programs It’s finally Collard Week — though anytime is a perfect time to celebrate these glorious greens! We are entering the months when frost becomes a possibility in the low points of our nation’s topography, which is when collards start...Explore chicories with these delicious recipes
Our 2023 Plant a Seed campaign celebrates greens and the communities who celebrate them. If you grew the our Plant a Seed kit in your garden this year, then you know that two greens in particular have been rockstar standouts deserving of celebration: fluffy Matilde...Chicory 101: School yourself on this super green group
By Mara Welton, Director of Programs I have long loved chicories — those bitter greens, reds and pinks that grace your salad mixes, often incognito. Beautiful radicchio leaves, oft mistaken for red cabbage, their maroon petals giving nutritional heft to an otherwise...Seaweed for thought
By Colles Stowell, Slow Fish Strategist Slow Food USA’s 2023 Plant a Seed campaign focuses on the incredible diversity of greens we can cultivate and eat. Interestingly, not all greens are grown in soil — we can look to the sea for nutritious and delicious greens as...Weaving communities together with heirloom beanstalks in California’s East Bay
In November 2022, Slow Food East Bay shut down a street in West Berkeley and held a sprawling Bean Feed complete with six chefs, three wineries, two aligned nonprofits, one farm and a copious number of bean-centric fun and games.
