Aug 8, 2024 | Slow Food Chapters, Slow Food Leaders, Uncategorized
On Tuesday, Aug. 6, Slow Food USA board members and staff presented highlights from the year thus far, outlined exciting goals and events in the coming months, and bade farewell to Dan Mueller.
Aug 1, 2024 | Chapter Highlight, Slow Food Chapters, Slow Food Leaders, Snail of Approval, Uncategorized
Have you ever wondered what it takes for a food and beverage business to earn the coveted Snail of Approval award from a Slow Food chapter? For a business to receive recognition, they must stand for the Slow Food principles of good, clean and fair food.
Dec 15, 2022 | Chapter Highlight, Food and Farming, Slow Food Chapters, Slow Food Events, Uncategorized
By Laurie Carlson, Slow Food O’ahu This past November, The Banana Source, Hawai’i SEED, Slow Food in Hawai’i and Waimea Valley hosted the inaugural Mai’a Ho’olaule’a / Banana Festival on the North Shore of O’ahu. Over 1,600 people...
Sep 7, 2022 | Food and Farming, Slow Meat, Snail of Approval, Uncategorized
Bobolink Dairy and Bakehouse is part of our Snail of Approval program, granted by Slow Food Northern New Jersey; the farm sits on 187 acres of land in Milford, New Jersey, and focuses on 100% grass-fed, farmstead cheese, produced on a small-scale regenerative farm. In 2002, when Nina and Jonathan started the project, most landowners were utilizing their properties for tract housing or subsidy farming, causing negative environmental effects and reducing community value. The fields the dairy and bakehouse currently operate on were originally used for conventional crop rotation; the land was barren, pale and parched and faced erosion as well as flooding issues after heavy rainfalls.
Jun 29, 2022 | Books, Slow Books, Uncategorized
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 celebrating each month at Slow Food. Click the book covers below...
Nov 15, 2021 | AR21 6, Current Events, Food and Farming, Food Justice, News, Policy & Public Health, Uncategorized
By Sara S. Blomquist, SFUSA Food and Farm Policy Steering Committee In recent years, particularly since the pandemic, our food system has become a much more nationally prominent subject. Be it the destructive environmental impacts of factory farming, the unjust...
