Feb 20, 2024 | Ark of Taste, Biodiversity, EIJ
This Black History Month, Slow Food USA is celebrating the historic and present-day value of three Ark of Taste crops that are farmed today, have significance for Black communities and promote our mission of good, clean and fair food.
Dec 19, 2023 | EIJ, Food Justice, Slow Food Leaders
By Equity, Inclusion and Justice Strategist Dan Mueller A couple of months ago, I set out to celebrate Slow Food USA’s (SFUSA) equity, inclusion and justice (EIJ) journey. I was hoping to highlight the ways we are working to become a food justice organization and...
Oct 24, 2022 | AR22 2, Chapter Highlight, EIJ, Food Justice, Slow Food Chapters
Slow Food Baltimore’s second event of the year celebrating Juneteenth was held on June 18. They partnered with Farmer Chippy’s Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm, a black-owned urban farm in Baltimore. … The event was attended by over a hundred people, mostly from the Park Heights neighborhood, but folks from St. Vincent’s church and other Slow Food Baltimore friends also came out as well. It was a wildly terrific event!
Jul 1, 2022 | EIJ, Featured, Food Justice, News, Policy & Public Health
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 Congress in July, and again at Terra Madre in September. The purpose is to shift 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...
Feb 22, 2022 | Biodiversity, EIJ, Food and Farming, Food Justice, Stories
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications Coordinator Back in 2020, Cedar Schimke, former Executive Director of Slow Food Minnesota, had a vision to make a documentary that showed how the values of Slow Food are embraced by producers throughout the greater Minnesota...
