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Dear Slow Food Members,
This issue is dedicated to Slow Food National "Dig In" day, which is taking place this Saturday, September 25th. Come and join your local chapter, help grow your community and get to know other chapter and community members.
If you've been thinking about coming to a Slow Food event and just haven't quite made it, now is a great time to show your support.
Slow Food USA has also launched its new member campaign. Basic membership rates now start at $25 a person. Take a look.
One last Slow Food regional update: Slow Food Berkeley and Slow Food East Bay have merged. They will continue on with the Slow Food East Bay name.
Remember the strength of Slow Food is in its membership. Be an active member and support your local food community.
Kind regards,
Anna
Anna Smith Clark
Slow Food Bay Area Governor
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Dig In Agua Terra
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Slow Food Agua Terra will be pairing with City Slicker Farms,
or Slow Food Agua Terra's Frankie Whitman for location and to RSVP.
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Dig In Delta Diablo
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Gleaning & Cleaning
When:September 25
Slow Food Delta Diablo is partnering with
Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association, the Contra Costa and Solano Food Bank, College Park High School and Brentwood
farmers in a day of community action.
Fresh produce from the gleaning will be donated to the Contra Costa and Solano
Food Bank, local soup kitchens and homeless shelters. The four markets in the
county we will be visiting are: Brentwood, Clayton, Pittsburg and Pinole. Farms we will visit are
all located in Brentwood. Volunteers are asked
to contact Gail Wadsworth for details and to get on a gleaning team.
Slow Food in Schools garden cleaning will be from 9 am to about 2. We are going
to be weeding, replanting the strawberry beds, spreading compost in all the
beds, spreading mulch and just generally cleaning up so we can get the special
day classes ahead of the game and start them on their winter seed starts in the
green house as well as getting winter crops in the ground. We ask helpers to
bring wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes, gloves, sun hats, sun screens and water. College Park high School is located at 201 Viking Drive in Pleasant Hill across the street from DVC. If
you would like to assist in this project, contact Lesley Stiles.
Gleaning
Gail Wadsworth
925-952-9643
925-952-9643
Cleaning
Lesley Stiles
925 323 3230
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Dig In East Bay
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Join the Ecology
Center and Slow Food East Bay
in the Garden for a Volunteer Work Day
Come join
us for a couple hours and volunteer. Bring some of your neighbors and build a
fence or a chicken coop, paint a shed, plant some seedlings, clear some weeds
and harvest. At the end of the work day, we will gather at one of the
gardens and celebrate our community and a job well done.
Participating Gardens:
Ashby Community
Garden
District/Malcolm X Berkeley Unified School
District/Thousand Oaks Berkeley Unified School
Berkeley Youth Collaborative
Karl Linn Community
Garden
Spiral Gardens Community
For more
information,
Part of the Berkeley Food Policy Council
Slow Food
Berkeley www.slowfoodberkeley.com
Ecology Center www.ecologycenter.org
or go
directly and RSVP
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| Dig In San Francisco |
|  Slow Food San Francisco is hosting three "Dig In!" events.
Starting at 9:00 am we will be
working at one of our supported school gardens by prepping for the
garden expansion at Sanchez School.
At 10:00 am we have a second group
heading to the local Finny Farm for a crop mob.
Then at 12:30 a third
group will be helping the SF Food Bank with food sorting at their
warehouse. If you would like to Dig In and help with any of these
events please RSVP on our website at www.slowfoodsanfrancisco.com
For more information go to, Slow Food San Francisco
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Dig In Santa Cruz
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On Saturday, September 25, Slow Food chapters around the country will
come together to promote good, clean, and fair food in their towns. On
the same day, coastal communities around the world will head to the
shores for International Coastal Cleanup Day.
You can participate in
both by attending one event!
Join us for the cleanup at Black's Beach
on September 25 to protect your local fisheries! Slow Food Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz NEXT are partnering with Save Our Shoresto protect one of Santa Cruz's greatest sources of local food and local
beauty - the ocean. This is a global event, and Sa.nta Cruz has a long
history of playing an important role in keeping our coast clean. Last
year over 4,000 volunteers pulled nearly 15,000 lbs. of trash and
recycle off our beaches!
Pre-Register
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Dig In Marin/Petaluma - NorCal Region
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Where: starting at Chicken Ranch Beach (just north of Inverness)
Join Slow Food Marin-Petaluma folks to participate in National Coastal
Cleanup Day, taking care of the Inverness beaches on Tomales Bay and
the health of our local waters--the source of our fabulous local
seafood. We'll follow up with a potluck picnic & pear/apple harvest in a backyard orchard in Inverness. All ages welcome!
We'll supply:
drinks and napkins for the picnic--and possibly a surprise guest
speaker; some beach cleanup supplies (but it's ideal to bring your own
non-disposables--see http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/ccd28.html )
You bring: water, warm
work clothes & shoes for the beach, a picnic potluck contribution,
your own eating utensils, a blanket or towel to sit on, and, if
possible, beach cleanup supplies (see note & link above) -- and a
bag for your take-home harvest!
RSVP with participant numbers and for directions to Lynne Frame
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Dig In South Bay
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Join Slow Food South Bay and partners Acterra, Barron Park Green Team, Barron Park Garden Network, Barron Park Association and Transition Palo Alto in the parking lot of our host Common Ground for a Garden and Food Swap as part of Slow Food USA's National Work Day - Dig In! Breaking Ground, Breaking Bread.
Backyard
gardeners, home canners and other people who enjoy the Slowest of food,
here is your opportunity to meet like-minded people in your community
to exchange the excess produce of your garden, seeds, home-made
products, recipes, ideas and more.
We intend this to be a
regular event, to be scheduled according to the desires of the members
and the produce of the season. As such, we are in the process of
creating a database of people and their produce which will help us
connect with each other on a regular basis.
Recognizing that a Garden and Food Swapis the most local of events - you neither should nor want to drive half
way across the county to swap your excess apples for someone else's
excess tomatoes - we intend to replicate this event at a number of
other locations throughout our region as we can.
Come help us
kick-off what should be a great project. Bring your tomatoes. Bring
your grandmother's secret tomato sauce recipe. Bring your ideas. If
you live in or near Palo Alto, you'll want to check this out, so that
you can help organize it and plan to attend regularly. If you live
elsewhere in the area, you'll want to check it out, so that you can
help set up a swap in your neighborhood.
When:
September 25th
Where:
Common Ground
559 College Ave, Palo Alto
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The Last Crop
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| Slow Food Regional Event
The Last Crop Screening & Panel Discussion
Screening and Panel Discussion with:
Paul Muller - Full Belly Farm and Yolo Land Trust
Annie & Jeff Main - Good Humus Produce
Chuck Schultz - Blueprint Productions, Producer/Director of The Last Crop
When: September 21 - 6:30-8pm
Where: Pacific Film Archives
2575 Bancroft Ave, Berkeley, CA
Purchase Tickets
 Nearly two-thirds of our nation's estimated 2 million farmers
are now over the age of 65. More than 6 million acres of U.S. farmland-an area
roughly the size of Maryland-were purchased by developers between 2002 and 2007,
and today we continue to lose two acres of land per minute to development.
These staggering statistics offer up a rather bleak picture for the future of
the small family farm in America.
The documentary, The Last Crop tells the story of a family on
the front lines of the local food movement.
While the film's focal point are Annie and Jeff Main and their 20-acre
organic farm Good Humus Produce,
their story addresses many national socio-economic issues such as preserving
local farms, affordable farmland, family farm succession, maintaining healthy
rural communities, and curbing development in California's Central Valley.
The
Last Crop, blends these issues into a personal journey of a
family caught in the struggle between urban and agricultural space. Annie and
Jeff Main are fourth-generation Californians. The Mains' land, once a wheat
field, is now an organic, biodiverse farm that grows a variety of fruits,
vegetables, and flowers. Their farm
has served the Davis, Sacramento and San Francisco communities for 25 years.
Now in their late-50s the Mains, like many of our nation's family farmers confront an
uncertain future as development impinges on farmland and all three of their children have chosen careers
off the farm. Annie Main states "Sustainability is the big
new catch phrase but what does that mean?
Does it mean that we take care of our soil? Our water? Our air?
The true issue to me is sustaining farmers."
Farm Aid reports that"every week 330 farmers across the nation leave
their land."
What is intriguing about
the Mains is they have decided on an alternative to merely selling their land for market
value.They aredrafting an agricultural easement only the second
such easement attempted in California that ensures their farm will be saved as
a 'working farm into perpetuity" and
made affordable for future farmers.
Whatever the outcome
of their story, this film raises public awareness that our nation's local
family farms will continue to disappear without seeking alternatives to the
pressures of urban sprawl and the random process of inheritance. Jeff Main
tells us "The work we have done of this
farm is important enough that it is actually more important that this work be
continued than for our children to inherit the land. They would have to be here
being farmers". According to The Cooperative State
Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) "an
estimated 70% of U.S. farmland will change hands in the next twenty years.
Without adequately planned succession, farms are more likely to go out of
business, be absorbed into ever-larger farming neighbors, or be converted to
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Below please find listings of events hosted Bay Area Regional Slow Food Chapter's, and community allies. If you have an event that you would like to include to a calendar please submit
Teens Turning Green
Project Lunch Week
When: September 20th - 24th
September 20th - National Gleaning Day hosted by Marin Organic
September 21st - Project Lunch Club hosted by Teens Turning Green
September 22nd - Organic Farm & Field Trips hosted by the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT)
September 23rd - Marin Farmer's Market Field Trip, hosted by Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM)
September 24th - School Lunch Celebration, hosted Food Service Staff and Project Lunch Clubs
Imagine a community in which all children are nourished, engaged, healthy and thriving.
Join us for the first-annual Project Lunch Week: MARIN, a week of school lunch education and celebration designed to inspire schools to work toward sustainable, local, and organic lunch programs and to build community around food.
For more information about the
Project Lunch Stakeholder Collaborative
Full Circle Farm Fall Harvest Feast Full Circle Farm's second annual moonlit dinner at the Farm. The evening will be a fabulous event celebrating our 3rd
anniversary and the amazing growth and accomplishments we have achieved
(thanks to your continued support) in such a short time!
Our fund raising dinner will be prepared for you by Michael Miller,
Executive Chef at the Capitol Club in San Jose. Michael will feature
Full Circle Farm's abundance of farm-fresh veggies, herbs and leafy
greens. There will also be delectable entrees and desserts as well.
The evening will be filled with live music, entertainment, guest speakers and a not-to-be-missed silent auction table.
Thursday, September 23
Slow Food National Day of Action Slow Food National Effort
When: September 25th, 2010,
Slow Food San Francisco
Convivial Table: Tour of 331 Cortland Market
When: September 26th, 4pm - 6pm
Where:
331 Cortland Market
331 Cortland Street
(Bernal Heights)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Cost: Free, RSVP
In our series of tours featuring local businesses, Slow Food San
Francisco's Convivial Table is heading to the new market at 331
Cortland Street in Bernal Heights to meet with the owner and vendors.
With a focus on local, seasonal, and sustainable, this collaboration of
San Franciscans offering artisanal food and food-related services will
talk to us about how they got started in their unique business model,
and what it's like to run 6 different shops under one roof.
This is a free event with opportunity (but no obligation) to make purchases from vendors after the tour.
For more information about this site, Click here
Butcher, Baker Candle Stick Maker
Pie Ranch
When: Sunday, September 26, 1:00 PM - ???
Where: Pie Ranch
San Mateo County
Coast
Cost: $100 per person for workshop and dinner; $75 for dinner only
Join
Pie Ranch for a day of Workshops and Fine Farm Dining on Sunday,
September 26. Workshops will be held on Sustainable Ranching and Proper
Butchery, Sustainable Farming and Nutritious Baking and the Craft of
Harvesting Beeswax and Creating Candles. A fine meal will be prepared
by chefs Phil West of Range and Brent Johnson of Spruce.
1:00 Workshops Begin
4:00 Wine & Hors d'Oeuvres
5:00 To The Tables
7:00 Pie and Dancing
More information and tickets here.
Think Globally, Act Locally: An Evening with Visionaries
When: October 1st, 7:30 pm
Where: Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center, 1914 Alhambra Blvd. Sacramento
Tickets & Information - $15, includes an organic supper; local wines and beer available
Join Slow Money Northern California Region for a discussion of Yolo
and Sacramento Counties' Rural and Urban Infrastructure Development
with special guests Jim Durst of Durst Organic Growers, Shawn Harrison
of Soil Born Farms and Paul Cultrera of the Sacramento Natural Foods
Co-op. We will discuss how the idea of "Slow Money" can help grow our
region's food and farming capacity to deliver good food, health, and
food security for all.
Proceeds benefit One Farm at a Time, a local farm preservation project
The Modesto Reel Food Film Festival
When:
Sunday, Oct. 3rd, 2:00pm
Where:
The historic State Theatre
1307 J Street
Modesto, California
Ticket Information:
To purchase tickets call
(209) 527-4697
Or visit: www.thestate.org
Cost:
$12 (General Admission)
CUESA - Sunday Super
When: October 3rd, 5:30pm
Where: The Ferry Building, San Francisco
Fall in San Francisco wouldn't be the same without this iconic meal.
For the last 8 years, CUESA has brought together, farmers, artisans,
chefs and market lovers for a heartfelt evening.
This year the entrée course will feature a whole beast carved table-side by some of the Bay Area's top chefs.
Guests
come for the four-course feast, but leave feeling part of something
much more unique, knowing they've done their part to help educate
eaters and support local farmers.
Read more. Buy tickets.
Savory Thyme
Benefit for the The Gulf Coast Fund
When: October 10th, 4:00 pm
Where: Hillside Gardens, Mill Valley
A celebration of the rich culture of the gulf coast.
4:00 - Panel Discussion with guest speakers - click here for bios
Latosha Brown, Director, Gulf Coast Fund (moderator) Derrick Evans, Turkey Creek Community Initiatives, Gulf Coast Fund Advisor Tracy Kuhns, Barataria Shrimper, Bayoukeeper, and Gulf Coast Fund Grantee Rosina Phillipe, Grand Bayou Shrimper, Community Elder of the Atakapa Tribe, and Gulf Coast Fund Grantee Gina Solomon, Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council 5:30 - Food and Drink
6:30 pm Musical performance by Mark Growden and his San Francisco Quartet
Tickets: $100/ $250/ $500/ $1,000
Tickets may be purchased here. All proceeds from this event will support communities working for a just and sustainable restoration of the Gulf Coast.
Click here or more information of to purchase tickets.
Slow Food Santa Cruz
Follow the Snail Through the West End
When: November 7,
2010, 12:30-4:00pm
Where: In and
around the Swift Street Courtyard, 402 Ingalls St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Join Slow Food Santa Cruz on a tour of
the wonderful wineries and eateries that are part of the up and coming "WestEnd"
neighborhood, which includes the Swift Street Courtyard. The focus of this tour will be local,
heirloom apples; edibles and libations at the stops on the tour will feature
this tasty fruit. Stops will
include Kelly's Bakery, New Leaf Market, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery, and additional
Surf City Vintners.
More details to come in early October, stay tuned to our
Facebook page and website for more details about this exciting event!
Terra Madre - Visit Salone del Gusto with Grape Adventures Wine Tours/Slow Food San Francisco
When:
October 21st- 27th 2010
Cost:
Varies
Where:
Turin, Italy
For Pricing Information:
Visit the Grape Adventures Wine Tours Website
Other Calendars.....
CUESA
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