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Food Justice

One aspect of starting this Slow Food chapter that I’m really excited to get involved with is collaborating with the Syracuse Grows organization. I haven’t seen a mission statement from them yet (maybe because I forgot to attend their last meeting..!), but I frame the group as this:
Syracuse Grows is a coalition of community [...]

ESF’s Green Campus Initiative

Hannah of ESF’s Green Campus Initiative invited me to come to their meeting and talk about Slow Food in the hopes of getting some of them to sign up. I said I would attend next Thursday, November 6th. The meeting is at 7PM on ESF’s campus. Please let me know if you’re [...]

Money doesn’t grow on trees

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 [...]

Breaking Ground

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? [...]