Slow Food Russian River

Slow Food Russian River is excited to co-sponsor this symposium on Women's Leadership In The Food Movement that will foster an intergenerational and cross-sector dialogue. Saturday, October 13, 2018, 10am - 6pm at the Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastopol, CA. A day of education, celebration, and dialogue, this 3rd annual symposium intends to...

The California Grain Campaign provides new marketing opportunities for California grain growers and educates our communities about the many benefits associated with including California-grown whole grains in our diet. Increasing California-grown grains at farmers’ markets will help farmers in their businesses, markets in their diversity, bakers in their craft, and...

Slow Food Russian River operates a Community Apple Press through October. Want to bring your class? It’s at the Luther Burbank Gold Ridge Experiment Farm in Sebastopol during apple season – from August through October. Use of the press is a free community service. You can use apples from your…

Help support the farmers growing this endangered heirloom apple and Savor and Save the Gravenstein Apple by ordering the Gravenstein Apple Box, a project of The FruitGuys and Slow Food Russian River. ORDER NOW! WHAT YOU GET: This year we are offering delicious sweet-tart organic or conventional Gravenstein apples in 16-, 24-, and 48-serving boxes (includes…

Members of Slow Food Russian River participated in Slow Food Nations last weekend – pictured board members Paula Shatkin (l) and Sandy Mays (r) – celebrating local apple products, Apple Sauce of Oliver’s Market, cider of Devoto Gardens & Orchards, cider of Golden State Cider, cider of Ethic Ciders, apple juice and cider of Nana Mae’s Organics, apple juice…

Slow Food is starting a Snail of Approval Program in Sonoma County with a soft launch scheduled for Wednesday, August 23. The Snail of Approval Soft Launch will happen the Sebastopol Grange. This is a joint project of two chapters, Slow Food Sonoma County North and Slow Food Russian River.

The Gravensteins are coming! Who are those Gravensteins? Some lower nobility from Nobilivetz?? No, these are the — yearly returning — delicious apples from our orchards in the North Bay. “In the United States, they are found most widely on the west coast, and in particular, around the Sonoma County,…

Make a Wander: We have mapped out a pre-Mother's Day trip that takes you from a party in an alley south of Windsor to an odd fellows building in Geyserville, through the most pleasing scenery of Sonoma County. Show your mother where we live and meditate. Live Map (A) You...