Meet Our Chapter Delegates to
Terra Madre Salone del Gusto,
Turin, Italy - Sept. 22-26
It's official! Slow Food Sacramento will be represented by five delegates to Terra Madre, the international gathering of food producers, chefs and other food experts. Together they will share the table and share ideas on how to improve world food systems. Learn Terra Madre and all our delegates here. This month we are introducing Chanowk Yisrael.
Chanowk Yisrael left a lucrative career in technology in 2008 to found Yisrael Family Urban Farms with his wife Judith. Since turning his attentions from computers to agriculture he has developed one of the most successful and productive urban farms in Sacramento located in Oak Park, a low-income neighborhood considered a food desert with nary a farm for miles around when he undertook growing food for his family on a one-half acre plot adjacent to his home. Today that small plot hosts 40 fruit trees, 11 chickens, a stocked greenhouse, a honeybee hive, and vegetables of every variety grown in all seasons. Chanowk made it his goal to feed his family of 11 year round on what they grew both for health reasons and to reinvigorate an urban connection to the earth. Read more about Chanowk...
Learn more next month about our additional two delegates: Brenda Ruiz (School Gardens and Youth Projects Director and Slow Food California Policy Committee Chair) and, Lisa Frank (graduate of the University of Gastronomic Sciences and instigator of Slow Beer California). We have never had so many delegates attend the largest international gathering of Slow Food members and supporters.
Fundraising for travel stipends Expect to hear more about our Sacramento delegates in upcoming newsletters. We would like to provide a minimum stipend of $1,500 to help offset airfare and miscellaneous costs. We'll be doing some fundraisers and sending links, so you can make a contribution in whatever sum works for you. Thank you for helping ensure that a broad spectrum of leaders is able to represent us at Terra Madre.
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