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Pay Any Amount To Join: June is a great month to join the Slow Food movement Do you know that a donation to Slow Food USA in any amount during June as part of our 100 Years of Plenty campaign will give you a year's membership in the international Slow Food movement?...

Slow Down: New Oliver’s Market Opens in Windsor             Karen Preuss and I, both members of Slow Food Russian River, live near Oliver’s Market in Cotati, a store that emphasizes good, clean and fair. It’s not only close to home and convenient, it also carries the stuff I want to…

3rd Annual Wool Festival in Point Arena May 21-22, 2016 10am-5pm Free event / Parking $5 Casari Ranch 42900 Curley Lane (off HWY 1) Point Arena, Mendocino County, CA 95468 Map Phone 707-882-1885 Festival Website This is a wonderful event for families and individuals interested in supporting a farm enterprise that…

A Disco Soup is a gathering of people who cook with produce that is considered waste. The produce consists of perfectly good vegetables, fruit, and bread that grocery stores, farmers markets, and home gardeners can’t sell or use because of spots, bruises, or other cosmetic reasons (crooked or misshapen), or...

SFRR Board Member Paula Downing, longtime Manager of the Sebastopol Farmers’ Market, is stepping down from her position at the market. Come and say goodbye in grand style at Paula’s Kick-Ass Retirement Celebration. Sebastopol Grange 6000 Sebastopol Ave (Highway 12) Saturday, December 5, 2015, 5–10pm Paula Downing has been managing…

Slow Food Russian River is grateful to all who work in the food web of Sonoma County and together make this place, from what we have seen, the chosen spot of all this earth as far as food is concerned.* Happy Thanksgiving! With a bow to Luther Burbank

Edie Mukiibi Brings Good Food News from Africa to California After attending the Slow Food Sacramento  Mixer last Monday night, November 17th, I felt inadequate. I realized I am so small in the scheme of what is happening around us, especially the ‘us’ in the United States. I felt I should be…

Order your Holiday Bird from these Sonoma County Geese & Turkey Producers The Slow Food Russian River/4-H turkeys are sold out but we can still recommend these local geese & turkey producers for your holiday table: Green Goose Farm Geese & Turkeys Petaluma Happy Hens Farm Turkeys Petaluma Olufs Ranches…

Thanksgiving fast approaches and eleven Sonoma County youth from the 4-H/Slow Food Heritage Turkey project have been working hard all year to make sure that you will be able to have the best possible turkey for your Thanksgiving celebration. Over the next few weeks we’d like to introduce you to…

WIMP is a trade group that represents over 1,000 digital media professionals, most centered around the North Bay. WIMPgives is special. Imagine a community of web designers, developers, content writers and online marketing professionals coming together to donate their time to benefit local nonprofits. WIMPgives is an annual charity hackathon...