BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Slow Food Russian River - ECPv6.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Slow Food Russian River REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151001T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151001T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T095445 CREATED:20141117T225909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150910T000502Z UID:370-1443726000-1443733200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: The Covenant of the Wild. Why Animals Choose Domestication\, by Stephen Budiansky DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading the book The Covenant of the Wild. Why Animals Choose Domestication (1996) by Stephen Budiansky. \nSome animal rights advocates argue that eating meat is murder and that pets are slaves. This controversial reappraisal of the human-animal bond\, however\, argues that domestication of animals is not an act of exploitation but a brilliantly successful evolutionary strategy that has benefited humans and animals alike. (Adapted from Goodreads) \nThis book is available in the 2nd hand book trade for less than $5. There is one copy in the Sonoma County Public Library System\, but not at SSU or the SRJC Library. \nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The book group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation.  You don’t need to be a member\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. Location in Sebastopol with RSVP. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/slow-food-russian-river-book-group-stephen-budianskys-the-covenant-of-the-wild-why-animals-choose-domestication-by/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/covenant.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150903T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150903T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T095445 CREATED:20150528T024207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150829T191036Z UID:1664-1441306800-1441314000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Field Days. A Year of Farming\, Eating\, and Drinking Wine in California\, by Jonah Raskin DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book Field Days. A Year of Farming\, Eating\, and Drinking Wine in California (September 2010\, UC California Press)\, by Jonah Raskin. Photography by Paige Green. \nFor a first the author will be participating. \nYou can ask Jonah anything you want about writing\, editing\, publishing and more. He will be talking about the backstory to the book\, what changes he has seen in the ag world\, and where we are now as a foodshed. \nIf you can’t read the whole book – he says he understand – try to read the Introduction\, pp. 1-12 or the Coda\, pp. 289-291 and the Acknowledgements 293-297. \n“Sooner or later\, nearly everyone who cares about wine and food comes to Sonoma”—so begins this lively excursion to a spectacular region that has become known internationally as a locavore’s paradise. Part memoir\, part vivid reportage\, Field Days chronicles the renaissance in farming organically and eating locally that is unfolding in Northern California. Jonah Raskin tells of the year he spent on Oak Hill Farm—working the fields\, selling produce at farmers’ markets\, and following it to restaurants. He also goes behind the scenes at Whole Foods. In this luminous account of his experiences\, Raskin introduces a dynamic cast of characters—farmers\, chefs\, winemakers\, farm workers\, and environmentalists. They include such luminaries as Warren Weber at Star Route Farm\, the oldest certified organic farm in Marin County; Bob Cannard\, who has supplied Chez Panisse with vegetables for decades; Sharon Grossi\, the owner of the largest organic farm in Sonoma; and Craig Stoll\, the founder and executive chef at Delfina in San Francisco. Raskin also offers portraits of renowned historical figures\, including Luther Burbank\, Jack London\, and M.F.K. Fisher. Field Days is a heartfelt celebration of the farm-to-table movement and its cultural reverberations” (Publisher’s Description). \nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The book group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation.You don’t need to be a member\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one.  Location in Sebastopol with RSVP. \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/field-days-a-year-of-farming-eating-and-drinking-wine-in-california-by-jonah-raskin/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/fielddayswithjonah.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150514T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150514T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T095445 CREATED:20150108T224205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150512T183535Z UID:392-1431626400-1431637200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Farm Tour and Conversation about Saving Seeds and Biodiversity at Foxwhelp Farm DESCRIPTION:Get tickets at http://foxwhelp-farm.brownpapertickets.com \n*** \nTerry and Carolyn Harrison of Foxwhelp Farm have been leaders of Sonoma County organic (“the old ‘new’ “) agriculture since they began farming in 1974\, and Slow Food Russian River is grateful that they open Foxwhelp Farm to us on Thursday\, May 14\, 6-9 pm for a tour of their orchards and fields\, and a potluck dinner conversation in their barn about seeds and grafts\, and the importance of biodiversity in agriculture and how to preserve and enhance it. \nThe Harrisons have been long time members of the California Rare Fruit Growers. They launched their business\, the Sonoma Antique Apple Nursery\, in 1980\, and are leaders in our partner organization  Community Alliance for Family Farmers (CAFF). \nFoxwhelp Farm barn \nA recent project is the establishment of a Seed Bank at the Healdsburg Regional Library. A great article about the Harrisons by former Slow Food Leader Linda Peterson appeared on the Sonoma County Farm Bureau website. Also see Michele Anna Jordan’s article about Seed Banks in Sonoma Magazine of Friday\, March 14\, 2014. \nFoxwhelp Farm is off Westside Road near Healdsburg. Directions to Foxwhelp Farm will be send to you in an email after have gotten your tickets. \nThis event is organized by the SFRR Book Group as a termination point for their reading of the book The Third Plate. Field Notes on the Future of Food (2014) by Dan Barber but is open to anybody. \n“At the heart of today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture is a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food. Our concern over factory farms and chemically grown crops might have sparked a social movement\, but chef Dan Barber reveals that even the most enlightened eating of today is ultimately detrimental to the environment and to individual health. And it doesn’t involve truly delicious food. Based on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world\, Barber’s The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal the land and taste good\, too.” (From Goodreads) URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/farm-tour-saving-seeds-biodiversity-at-foxwhelp-farm/ LOCATION:Foxwhelp Farm\, Address with RSVP\, Healdsburg\, CA\, 95448\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/terry-and-carolyn-plucking-apples1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150402T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150402T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T095445 CREATED:20150108T223537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150330T214448Z UID:390-1428001200-1428008400@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: The Third Plate. Field Notes on the Future of Food\, Part III (Sea)\, by Dan Barber DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading Part III on Sea of the book The Third Plate. Field Notes on the Future of Food (2014) by Dan Barber. \n“At the heart of today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture is a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food. Our concern over factory farms and chemically grown crops might have sparked a social movement\, but chef Dan Barber reveals that even the most enlightened eating of today is ultimately detrimental to the environment and to individual health. And it doesn’t involve truly delicious food. Based on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world\, Barber’s The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal the land and taste good\, too.” (From Goodreads) \nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The book group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. Location in Sebastopol with RSVP. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-the-third-plate-field-notes-on-the-future-of-food-part-iii-sea-by-dan-barber/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/thirdplatepartIII.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150305T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150305T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T095445 CREATED:20150108T222416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150330T214509Z UID:388-1425582000-1425589200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: The Third Plate. Field Notes on the Future of Food\, Part II (Land) by Dan Barber DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading Part II on Land of the book The Third Plate. Field Notes on the Future of Food (2014) by Dan Barber. \n“At the heart of today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture is a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food. Our concern over factory farms and chemically grown crops might have sparked a social movement\, but chef Dan Barber reveals that even the most enlightened eating of today is ultimately detrimental to the environment and to individual health. And it doesn’t involve truly delicious food. Based on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world\, Barber’s The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal the land and taste good\, too.” (From Goodreads) \nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The book group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. Location in Sebastopol with RSVP. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-the-third-plate-field-notes-on-the-future-of-food-part-ii-soil-by-dan-barber/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/thirdplatepartII.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150205T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T095445 CREATED:20141117T225848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150108T222454Z UID:369-1423162800-1423170000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: The Third Plate. Field Notes on the Future of Food\, Part I (Soil) by Dan Barber DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading Part I on Soil of the book The Third Plate. Field Notes on the Future of Food (2014) by Dan Barber. \n“At the heart of today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture is a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food. Our concern over factory farms and chemically grown crops might have sparked a social movement\, but chef Dan Barber reveals that even the most enlightened eating of today is ultimately detrimental to the environment and to individual health. And it doesn’t involve truly delicious food. Based on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world\, Barber’s The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal the land and taste good\, too.” (From Goodreads) \nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The book group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. Location in Sebastopol with RSVP. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/slow-food-russian-river-book-group-the-third-plate-field-notes-on-the-future-of-food-by-dan-barber/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/thirdplatepartI.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T095445 CREATED:20141117T225746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150701T215229Z UID:364-1417719600-1417726800@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet\, by Sarah Elton. DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading the book Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet\, by Sarah Elton (2013). \n“Anyone concerned about food\, our world’s increasingly broken and failing food systems\, and/or independent farming should read this. Excerpt from the Seeds section\, re: traditional vs. chemical rice farming: “High yields have come at a cost. Hybrid rice requires a lot of chemical fertilizers and pesticides\, many found. Traditional rice doesn’t like chemicals. If you fertilize traditional varieties with nitrogen to increase yields\, the plants tend to topple over under the weight of the larger seed heads. But there are benefits to growing chemical-free that can’t be measured in crop yields. In a rice field where traditional seeds are grown\, there exists a whole lot of life\, a whole lot of biodiversity. In the water live zooplankton and nematodes and molluscs as well as surface-dwelling insects. Because rice is grown in a wetland\, you will also find amphibians\, reptiles\, fish\, and water birds all thriving amid the growing grains\, as well as other vegetation. This life becomes food for humans\, and the biodiversity offers the farmers the protection of ecological resilience — if one part of the ecosystem doesn’t do well one year\, another is sure to flourish. Compare this with the hybrid rice paddy where chemicals kill all these other life forms and turn the growing area into a monoculture. And monocultures are the opposite of resilient. The ecology of the wetland is thrown out of balance by the chemicals. The pests’ natural predators are killed [by chemical pesticides]\, and the plant hoppers that are resistant to the pesticide multiply in a way that they normally wouldn’t have the opportunity to do. Then the plant hopper destroys the crop.” (Robin Tierney on Goodreads). \nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The book group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. You don’t have to be a member. Receive information about location in Sebastopol with RSVP. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/sfrr-book-group-consumed-food-for-a-finite-planet-by-sarah-elton/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/consumed.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140904T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140904T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T095445 CREATED:20150330T213618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T191755Z UID:851-1409857200-1409864400@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Pig perfect : encounters with remarkable swine and some great ways to cook them\, by Peter Kaminsky DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading the book Pig perfect : encounters with remarkable swine and some great ways to cook them\, by Peter Kaminsky. \n“Peter Kaminsky loves all things porcine. He loves it from piglets to pork roasts. He loves it from breeding-stock genetics to artisinally-cured hams. In this book\, he pursues his love from villages in France and Spain to gas stations and general stores alongside blue highways in the Old South. He tracks the descendents of the pigs which Spanish conquistadors brought to America. He even makes a theological/cultural excursus to consider why pork is prohibited to Jews and Muslims. Recipes\, some his own and some lent by others\, are interspersed. Kaminsky is a Renaissance kinda guy. He is a good writer with lots of credentials in magazines like “Field and Stream.” He is a funny writer\, having been the managing editor of “National Lampoon.” He is a foodie writer\, having written a column called “The Underground Gourmet” for New York Magazine. This excellent book ends with an intense (but not preachy) appeal for sustainable agriculture and husbandry and a condemnation of factory farms. He is\, of course\, absolutely correct ” (@Stephen E. Moore on Goodreads). \nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The book group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. Location in Sebastopol with RSVP. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/pig-perfect-encounters-with-remarkable-swine-and-some-great-ways-to-cook-them-by-peter-kaminsky/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/pigperfect.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140410T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140410T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T095445 CREATED:20150707T221316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150713T231230Z UID:2308-1397156400-1397163600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Taste\, Memory: Forgotten Foods\, Lost Flavors\, and Why They Matter\, by David Buchanan DESCRIPTION:The SFRR Book Group is currently reading David Buchanan’s Taste\, Memory: Forgotten Foods\, Lost Flavors\, and Why They Matter. \nOur next meeting is April 10 and the reading is the remainder of this inspiring book by David Buchanan\, Taste\, Memory: Forgotten Foods\, Lost Flavors\, and Why They Matter\, Chapters 6 – 11 (110pp.) \nThe book traces the experiences of modern-day explorers who re-discover culturally rich forgotten foods and return them to our tables for all to experience and savour. David Buchanan explores questions fundamental to the future of food and farming. (Goodreads) \nA meander\, with hoe\, through organic vegetable patches\, lost orchards\, seed catalogs and produce markets with a dedicated gardener in search of a small farm. From experiments “trying to live off the grid” in Washington state after college to raising produce on semiurban plots around Portland\, Maine\, Buchanan has always followed his passion for heritage plants: the ugly heirloom baking apple\, undersized pear\, thin-skinned tomato and other relics of the old family farm lost or marginalized by bottom-line-obsessed agribusiness\, environmental degradation and government regulation. In this combination of memoir and treatise for the back-to-the-farm movement\, the author laments the loss of 90 percent of America’s crop diversity over the last century. What that means to the average supermarket shopper is dinner without a world of region-specific savors―the fruit of what the French call the terroir. Seeking inspiration and the perfect place to start a market garden\, Buchanan made research forays to thriving organic farms and nurseries in New England\, talked with seed collectors\, visited a USDA gene bank and hunted for heritage apple trees by highways and in backyards. He ponders the relevance of agricultural diversity in the contemporary world and the role individuals can play in keeping heritage varieties in our markets and on our plates. Buchanan ended up swapping work for equipment and the use of small parcels of tillable land around Portland\, where he continues to battle late blight and caterpillars to raise a varied crop of rare apples for his own brand of raw cider. It’s a catch-as-catch-can lifestyle\, but it’s deeply satisfying to Buchanan and demonstrates the way forward for a new generation of farmers and locavores. A specialized look at the small-farming movement\, written with appealing self-knowledge\, diligent research and occasional flair. (Kirkus Reviews) \nWe meet in Sebastopol. \nWe started looking for our next book. On the table are:\n• Kristin Ohlson. the soil will save us. How Scientists\, Farmers\, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet (2014)\n• Gary Paul Nabham. Coming Home to Eat. The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods (2002)\n• Janisse Ray\, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food (2012)\n• Margaret Gray\, Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic (2014) \nTo contact the Book Group send a message to Slow Food Russian River Book Group URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-taste-memory-forgotten-foods-lost-flavors-and-why-they-matter-by-david-buchanan/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tastememory-copy.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR