Slow Food USA’s National School Garden Program started to release a curriculum for educators to teach students to “enjoy the pleasures of healthy and delicious food.” We love it! The first part is called GOOD and includes Sensory Education and Kitchen Skills training. It’s quintessential Slow Food. The goal of the curriculum is…
The apple harvest in Sonoma County runs about three months, beginning with the arrival of the renowned Gravenstein in mid-August and continuing into November with the late-bearing varieties. The volunteers of Slow Food are very busy during that time, but the apple trees are busy all year long. If you want to engage with apple trees now, there’s no better way…
This past November, I was a lucky delegate from our Slow Food chapter to Terra Madre, a biennial gathering of 5,000 delegates from every corner of the globe to share their stories and learn from each other on behalf of the earth, farming, and biodiversity. It is a huge coming-together…
We’d like to acknowledge the following people and institutions (and many others unnamed here) for their support in making the Press a successful operation in 2014: The Western Sonoma County Historical Society and the Farm Committee of the Luther Burbank Experiment Farm, for hosting us at the lovely Farm for the…
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