Slow Food CNY

[ September 16, 2010; 3:00 am; 3:00 am; ] Good news – Slow Food USA’s 30-day membership drive starts today, September 15, 2010!  You can join for the first time or renew your membership to Slow Food for $25.00, less than half the original $60.00 rate.   Where does your money go?  The money from membership revenue will go to leadership trainings, regional and national [...]

Slow Food Central New York now has a variety of lists. Before, I would just add you to a contact list I was keeping in my address book. Now, we have become quite a bit more sophisticated! Below are our lists:

SFCNY Announcements: This is the default list that everyone should be on. [...]

The convivium application is in the mail! I can’t say when the office in Brooklyn will get it, being the crazy holiday season and all. However, once that is recieved and approved, we will then have to get an EIN and a bank account and some other things. After that second round [...]

Last night we worked on crafting our mission statement. We looked at Buffalo’s convivium for inspiration (as Rochester’s website was down!). Now, I will confess, I thought Buffalo’s wording could use work and that some of the items are redundant. After some streamlining, and adding some food justice type statments, here [...]

Let’s see how long I keep to the pithy pseudo-agricultural post titles.
So to start a chapter (convivium) of Slow Food USA here in Syracuse, I need to get people to sign up to become Slow Food USA members. This costs money. Now, I don’t know about you, but I don’t really enjoy [...]

This blog is intended to be a centralized resource for the not-yet-existing Slow Foods in Syracuse chapter. Right now, I am looking at gathering a core team of people who will be able to dedicate time and energy on getting this chapter off the ground. Why do we need a chapter in Syracuse? [...]