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This Labor Day, join us in building a food system that is just, sustainable and delicious by holding picnics in your town or city. A day of generosity and action, we invite you to organize picnics with loved ones and new friends who together will break […]

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In what is now becoming a tradition, some links for your weekend perusal:

Eating IS a political act.  Check out this post on The Atlantic blog about that John Schwenkler piece on culinary conservatism that we blogged about a few weeks ago.
Prairie Business Magazine comes out in support of Slow Food and regional foodways, and what […]

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If you haven’t already seen it, check out Kim Severson’s article about Slow Food and Slow Food Nation in yesterday’s Dining Section of the NY Times.  It’s well worth reading all of comments on their site as well. In particular, thanks to Mike in Chicago for explaining things so well:
I think different aspects of Slow […]

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Some Thursday links for your all:

Slow Food Nation’s Victory Garden is complete and it’s beautiful. And Alice Waters talks up the street food section of the event.
But can edible gardens save our broken food system?  Check out this very interesting article from one of the people who had his lawn transformed by artist Fritz Haeg’s […]

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by Slow Food USA Intern, Sara Hoffman 
According to the American Farmland Trust, “America is losing 1.2 million acres of farmland annually, much of it the best and most productive farmland near where most Americans live.” This is a problem not only because fewer farms mean less food productivity.  Farmers can be excellent environmental stewards and […]

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Here in New York City we’ve finally made the annual swift jump from late winter straight to summer.  (We have heard there is a season called spring; here it is merely the name of a street).  That being said, summer is a glorious thing, full of long-awaited produce, and outdoor fun–like picnics.
Last summer, Slow Food […]

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“Amazingly, there is very little attention being paid to what fundamentally underpins all of our food systems - biodiversity and the services provided by ecosystems, such as soil, water and resilience to disasters.” - Gonzalo Oviedo

As the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization convenes this week to discuss food security and rising food prices around the […]

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Slow Food USA has begun an exciting partnership with online food locater LocalHarvest.  Local Harvest is an easy-to-use site that helps consumers all over the country find the sustainable food in their area–that means farmers’ markets, family farms, CSAs, retailers who sell free range poultry,  grass-fed beef purveyors, etc.  Now, for the first time ever, […]

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by Slow Food USA staffer Jerusha Klemperer
Greetings from inside the United Nations where I am observing sessions of the Commission on Sustainable Development; this particular two-year cycle of the CSD is focusing on some important issues for Slow Food including Land, Agriculture, Rural Development, Biodiversity, Drought and Desertification.
I am here on behalf of Slow Food […]

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by SFUSA Program Director Makalé Faber Cullen
The names alone can bring a smile to your face. In today’s New York Times, Kim Severson rolls out descriptions of RAFT, and our country’s food heritage, like little pearls of food wisdom.
Industrial farming, which selects for shipability, is the cause of the loss of 93% of our food […]

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