Slow Food USA Leader Links No Images? Click here We are in the throes of planning the third annual Slow Food Nations food festival and we are very excited about it. We sincerely appreciate each of your contributions to making this festival fantastic and for shouting it from the rooftops with us! We are excited to announce the launch of our Spring campaign to inspire, equip and educate land stewards to plant (and plan the planting of) a colorful variety of seeds in a collective effort to preserve essential biodiversity and encourage earth-conscious innovation. The Plant a Seed campaign gives you the tools to get amazing flavor back on your plate. We’re leaning into our theme this year, Where Tradition Meets Innovation, and pairing seeds from the Ark of Taste, our library of delicious heritage foods facing extinction, with Row 7 Seed Company, an innovative company co-created by chef Dan Barber devoted to breeding new plants for flavor. We will send each chapter one kit for free if you request it by March 15. Requests that come in after this date will pay the member kit cost of $30. Each kit contains beet, squash and pea seed packets, a Slow Food tin sign, a poster, and stickers, and more. See details here. SLOW FOOD SPOTLIGHTSlow Food East Bay's 2019 Cultural Food Traditions Project SF East Bay has announced the beginning of a year-long deep dive into cultural food traditions - the ways in which people hold on to their foodways and stay connected to culture, homeland and community through food. The upcoming series set to kick off on March 31 will be hosted by local chefs to showcase their heritage, culture and community through their culinary endeavors. Attendees will be inspired by stories from chefs and community organizations, learning how diversity and migration have helped our food system evolve... and, frankly, be more delicious! 2018 Annual Chapter SurveyThe deadline for submitting the annual chapter survey has been extended to Friday, March 1, 2019. In order to be in good standing and be listed on our website, every chapter needs to fill out this survey and file taxes. |