Slow Food USA Leader Links No Images? Click here Slow Bees Community CallWed, Jun 26, 2019 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMOn May 20th 2019, Slow Food International introduced a new Community, Slow Bees. Join a discussion about the communities first action, mission, and get involved in its future efforts. Let’s create a big buzz! Call-in details below. Slow Bees Community Call Slow Food Nations Meet UpsNew this year, we will provide a designated space in the Craft Beer + Cider Garden where our global network can gather throughout the weekend to continue conversations, be inspired, create, and collaborate beyond the Leader Summit and Slow Food Salon sessions to strengthen our communities. We currently have schedule meet ups on topics including Meatless Monday, Slow Bees, school gardens, and food + farm policy. Is there a particular topic missing that is of interest to you? Sign up to host a meet up here. Slots are limited and are first come, first served. Write for Slow Food NationsCalling all writers! Slow Food is looking for talented writers to help us document the events at this year's Slow Food Nations festival. With your help, we'll be able to chronicle all the discussions, tastings, and excitement at Slow Food Nations 2019. Please fill out this form if you are interested! Embrace Joy + JusticeOnly one month until Slow Food Nations! Join us in Denver to share your vision for a better food future, and learn how we're building a food system based on equity, inclusion and justice. The success of Slow Food Nations depends on all of us to contribute what we can. Embrace Joy + Justice and donate to help fund inspiring panels, video recording of the event, the development of an Equity, Inclusion and Justice curriculum, and our ever popular indigenous dinner! PLUS with each donation, you'll receive an "embracelet" (like the one Carlo Petrini and Slow Food International Councilors Jennifer Breckner, Kathryn Lynch Underwood, Denisa Livingston and Tiffany Nurrenbern are sporting above) that will grant you entry to our special Joy + Justice happy hour, where you can rub shoulders with food justice heroes and snack on Ark of Taste treats. We hope to see you soon! Taste of Slow Food NationsSlow Food has teamed up with restaurants in Colorado and beyond to put a Slow Food dish on their menus and to put the festival on your calendar. From now until Slow Food Nations kicks off on July 19th, chefs and restaurateurs will feature an item with a product from Slow Food's Ark of Taste, our library of delicious and distinctive foods facing extinction. By identifying these foods and championing for their worth, we're capable of keeping them in our ecosystems (and on our plates!). Check out the participating restaurants, and make plans to dine out this month! SLOW FOOD SPOTLIGHTWe welcome Ian McFaul as the newest Slow Food State Governor!We are excited to welcome Ian McFaul as the new CA (Bay Area) Slow Food Governor! Ian was born and raised on Xalychidom Piipaash lands (Phoenix, Arizona). Spending grade school summers among raspberry hedgerows and an apple orchard in Door County, Wisconsin auspiciously planted seeds for the future. Many years later, after reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, he abruptly understood the necessity of good, clean, and fair local food and the Slow Food movement. His journey to California began first to the Valley of Heart’s Delight at Apple, and then to San Francisco, when he began volunteering at Alice Waters’ Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley. He found his local food home in San Francisco with CUESA, and then like a bee to a flower, was drawn to the Gravenstein apple orchards and vast sustainable foodshed of Sonoma County. Ian engaged deeply with Slow Food after years volunteering at the Gravenstein Apple Fair. He has interned for Slow Food USA in Denver, was a USA delegate in Chengdu, Copenhagen, and Torino, and is on the board of Slow Food Russian River and Slow Food California. Volunteer at Slow Food NationsVolunteers are a crucial part of the success of Slow Food Nations. From welcoming attendees to working as ambassadors at workshops and guiding our sustainability initiatives, volunteers are key to making sure the gears run smoothly at the festival. You’ll get some sweet Slow Food Nations team swag, plus our undying love and gratitude. You can choose to be a part of our Sustainability Team or our Event Team, whichever speaks to you! You’ll be in great company and highly appreciated on either team. As a volunteer, you will receive Slow Food Nations swag made specifically for volunteers. In some positions, you will be able to attend the event that you are supporting. For example, ambassadors/volunteers at workshops and talks will be in the room during the event to listen in and in some cases participate. "All progress in capitalistic agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the laborer, but of robbing the soil.”
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