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!

First up:

Leader Summit Tickets are now on sale and we want people to save the date for the festival! You’ll find promo materials in the 2019 SFN digital toolkit. Please use those materials to share fun stuff and spread the word about festival happenings. We will be continuously adding tip sheets, photos, social shares and imagery to the digital toolkit as time progresses and will re-send the link with key announcements in 1 or 2 emails/month.

We are actively recruiting merchants for the Taste Marketplace. Please help us reach out to food and beverage makers that you’d like to see at the festival! We’ve compiled some digital assets for merchant outreach. If you would like some postcards to share with potential merchants, please let us know.

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.