Slow Food Mission
Slow Food USA seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in the food system. We reconnect Americans with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce our food. We seek to inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices and market forces so that they ensure equity, sustainability and pleasure in the food we eat.
Become a member of Slow Food Mohawk Valley USA - For just $25 - click here and begin enjoying your membership benefits today Good, Clean and Fair
 Good: The word good can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. For Slow Food, the idea of good means enjoying delicious food created with care from healthy plants and animals. The pleasures of good food can also help to build community and celebrate culture and regional diversity. Clean: When we talk about clean food, we are talking about nutritious food that is as good for the planet as it is for our bodies. It is grown and harvested with methods that have a positive impact on our local ecosystems and promotes biodiversity. Fair: We believe that food is a universal right. Food that is fair should be accessible to all, regardless of income, and produced by people who are treated with dignity and justly compensated for their labor.Join Us Slow Food Mohawk Valley is shaped by your direct involvement. Slow Food USA offers many programs for chapters to apply at the local level. Plug in and make it happen: it starts with you.
The Slow Food USA Ark of Taste is a catalog of over 200 delicious foods in danger of extinction. By planting, promoting and eating Ark products we help ensure that they remain in production and on our plates.
Slow Food in Schools teaches youth about the values of eating locally, seasonally and sustainably through hands-on projects. Programs can range from after-school cooking classes to school activities to improve school lunches or establishing a school garden.
Slow Food on Campus is a network of Slow Food USA campus chapters that engage college students around food system and food justice issues. Start a chapter today!
1000 Gardens in Africa Slow Food is embarking on an ambitious project to create food gardens in every Terra Madre community across Africa. The challenge to create 1000 gardens in schools, villages and on the outskirts of cities was launched at the Terra Madre meeting last October.
Slow Food Mohawk Valley is raising funds to sponsor one or more gardens. (Gift certificates are available.)
Terra Madre USA is a network of over 7,000 food producers, cooks and educators from 150 countries united by a common goal of global sustainability in food systems.
For Slow Food International Programs, click here.
To learn about Slow Food Mohawk Valley, please contact either of the chapter leaders:
 | News and Events Come to Slow Food Mohawk Valley's livestream of: TEDxManahattan- Changing the Way We Eat Presented in partnership with SF Hamilton College and Bon Appetit HC... At Hamilton College in Clinton, in the KJ Auditorium. February 16th, 2013 Starting at 9:30 for coffee. Lunch will be available for purchase. This is a great shared learning experience; as those of you who were there last year know... Please join us! Directions to Hamilton college Register here (it's free) http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/328031 ****************************** March 3rd, 2013 Save the date...
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