Participate locally in the largest celebration of food in America!

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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Wanna mold young minds? Simply by signing up for a newsletter, you could help send a youth delegate all the way to Italy to discuss sustainable foodways with 6,000 other people from around the world.
Culinate, the food website for those who care about eating better, is sponsoring as many as 10 travel scholarships for […]

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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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by Slow Food USA intern Sara Hoffman 
The State of Vermont is going to court against a compost pile.
The Vermont Compost Company (VCC), started to meet the needs of farmers and amateur gardeners for high quality composts and soil mixes, has been served an $18,000 fine by the state. The Natural Resources Board says that owner […]

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An email that farmer David Perkins from Wisconsin shared with us about the flood damage on his property articulates perfectly the importance of the concept of a co-producer.
Here’s what David wrote: “A theme near and dear to Slow Food that you may want to follow up on is the support that exists between those farms […]

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To add to yesterday’s post about planting an edible garden on the White House lawn:
Roger Doiron, over at Kitchen Gardeners International (whom we wrote about earlier this year) also has a petition for you to sign, as well as a fleshed out plan for getting our next President to roll up his sleeves and find […]

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The main civic garden on our minds these days is the Victory Garden being planted on the front lawn of City Hall in San Francisco, for Slow Food Nation.  However, there’s a group out there that has its eyes on a bigger prize: the White House Lawn.*
Most interesting might be their PR tactics–in an effort […]

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Alas, we just found this call for applications to serve on the Standards Committee that will finalize a national standard for sustainable agriculture under the auspices of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).  The deadline is today.
This could be a fascinating process, and it will be very interesting to see the outcome–is “sustainable” something that […]

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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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For the first time since Slow Food USA was founded in 2000, we are restructuring our membership rates. But we can’t do it alone, so we are asking our trusted members to give us feedback on their experience with Slow Food.
Please take part in our 2008 Membership Survey.  Why, you ask?  Well…

Your input will shape […]

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