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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...

Currently on view at the Canessa Gallery in San Francisco, the arresting images in photographer Karen Preuss’s exhibit tell the compelling story about the demise of the Gravenstein Apple industry and its current revival. At the July 6 opening, friends, local art lovers and members of the Slow Food Russian...

Slow Food Russian River is now a Community Partner of the first Sonoma County Cider Week. The area’s first Cider Week, showcasing the extraordinary quality and diversity of ciders made right here in Sonoma County, kicks off Friday, August 3, and runs through Sunday, August 12, 2018. All of the...

This Apple Photo Exhibit begins on 1 July 2018 and closes at the end of month. The opening reception, which starts at 7 p.m., takes place on Friday July 6, 2018. It’s free and open to the public. This July, Karen Preuss's color photos of Sebastopol apples are going on the...

Slow Food leaders from chapters around the state gathered for a Slow Food California 2018 Leaders Meeting to share plans, ideas, hopes, dreams. The meeting, on April 12 and 13, was hosted by Slow Food South Bay, in Cupertino. Day One started with a tour of Veggielution Community Farm to give...

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...

Meat is back! So proclaimed culinary curator Hendrik Haase, editor of the book Crafted Meat: The New Meat Culture: Craft and Recipes (Gestalten, 2015), at an intimate tasting and educational event at Zazu, a restaurant at the Barlow in Sebastopol. Co-hosted by Slow Food Russian River, the Friday Happy Hour...

Welcome to Spring and to the renewal and new possibilities it brings! Hope Springs Eternal. We’ve got some great reasons for hope this month – in the form of garbage and chickens. Wait, what? Yes, garbage. As you may know, the county lost our local compost company, Sonoma Compost, about...

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…