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…
Slow Meat 2015 – a Symposium and a Fair on the desired future of meat in America – is upon us and five members of Slow Food Russian River are busy packing their bags to participate in this unique initiative of Slow Food USA which will happen June 4-6, 2015 in…
Are you a shutterbug who loves delicious and distinct foods? Want to get your image in front of the tens of thousands of people in the Slow Food USA network? Then help us celebrate your local food treasures for a chance to have your photo appear as the cover image…
The Book Group will have a break in the summer and we are planning a film series of films in downtown Sebastopol about the culture of food. If you are interested in joining the organizing team, please email SFRR Film Group.
The most trending post on our social media this past month was a message about cilantro on our Facebook page, “Why 10% of the Population Hates Cilantro and the Rest Doesn’t Know Any Better.” The posting reached, as we write, about 6500 people with 27 likes, 9 comments and 26 shares and strengthened the…
Look what photo we found in a drawer of ours: Slow Food President and Founder, Carlo Petrini, with Susan Campbell (left) and Paula Shatkin (right)! In 2008, in the run up to Slow Food Nation, the first national Slow Food event in the U.S., Carlo Petrini visited us here in northern California and…
Slow Food Russian River is expanding its education and outreach on social media. On our Facebook page.we invite you to have a conversation about the good, the clean, the fair, the for all, of food. We also want to become active on Pinterest, but we need help. Are you a Pinner?? We love…
This coming Thursdays April 23rd and 30th, and Friday, May 1st, help support the school garden project at Steel Lane Elementary School in Santa Rosa by purchasing plants for your garden. Fundraising keeps the kids learning, growing, and eating fresh vegetables and fruit throughout the school year. Plant sale dates…
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…
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…