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Help support the farmers growing this endangered heirloom apple and Savor and Save the Gravenstein Apple by ordering the Gravenstein Apple Box, a project of The FruitGuys and Slow Food Russian River. ORDER NOW!  WHAT YOU GET: This year we are offering delicious sweet-tart organic or conventional Gravenstein apples in…

Steele Lane Elementary School Garden is an inspiring educational garden that provides hands-on experiental learning to its student. Slow Food Russian River is a continuing sponsor of the school garden. See also Jo Ann Gleason’s recent blog post about the garden. Steele Lane Elementary School Garden is looking for a Coordinator Part Time: Two days…

Come and join us in support of our local apple culture. Slow Food Russian River Gravenstein Presidium is getting ready for Apple Season 2015.  The all round good apple called the Gravenstein needs our continuing support. Save the Gravensteins! Please contact us at info@slowfoodrr.org with the dates you can help: Sunday August 2nd; Saturday, August 8th or Sunday,…

California Rare Fruit Growers – Redwood Chapter Rare Fruit Tree Collector’s Sale – Open to Public Saturday July 25th , 9AM to Noon at the Original Farmers Market next to the Wells Fargo Performing Arts Center and Sutter Hospital, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa 95403 Our friends at…

Totally cool to see that Slow Food International has produced this 3 minute video about the Gravenstein Apple Presidium project. I am proud that my organization, Roots of Change, helped launch, 16 years ago now, the Presidium, with its intrepid leader, Paula Shatkin. This effort to raise awareness about the threat…

Increased food safety regs = less produce to people who need it most. Dear allies in food recovery, community health, getting good food to good people, this is Suzi Grady, Program Director a Program of Petaluma Bounty. I am writing you how a new state regulation AB 234 could curb gleaning efforts! Link to online…

Do you know the story behind your food? Experts say most of the meals we eat can be traced to just 12 plant species and 5 animal species. In the past 100 years, we have lost of 90% of our biodiversity. That means our global diet has gotten kind of…

Are you passionate about food? Do you have a curiosity about cutting-edge restaurants or food entrepreneurs? Do you know what’s the future of CSAs or Farmers Markets? Are you impassionate about ending hunger or providing living wages for everyone in the food system? Do you like to take pictures, shoot…

Attending the second ‪SlowMeat Symposium in Denver, was a very positive experience for me. The delegates came from many nations of the world. The sessions were informative, the food very good. I was most impressed by the growth in participation and the quality of dialogs since last year’s SlowMeat2014. Great momentum…

The County Supervisors – each and every one of them – have shown a lack of moral courage – not to mention disregard for enlightened environmental practices, and basic intelligent good sense – when they voted unanimously to bow down to the pressures of a lawsuit brought by neighbors of…