Slow Food CNY

Channel 3 had a great story (text, video) about a school in Hannibal, NY dedicated to serving healthy and homemade food in its cafeterias.  If you were at our Eat In in September, you know that Congress is planning on reviewing the standards for the Child Nutrition Act in the next year and Slow Food [...]

Dear Slow Food Friends,
In a promising move, the G8 — a group of the world’s eight wealthiest nations — has just announced a shift away from providing direct food aid to developing countries and towards helping farmers abroad produce and distribute their own food.
That’s a laudable goal. But the Obama administration along with members of [...]

On Friday, March 13, we hosted our first community potluck at the Westcott Community Center and it was a blast! Over 50 people attended including CSA Farmers, representatives from a variety of local organizations, and of course community members!
Thanks to everyone for your mouth watering dishes. The community contributed toward a great menu of food [...]

… cordially invites you to the
Mill Creek Farm Presentation
MISSION STATEMENT:
The Mill Creek Farm is a collectively run urban education farm that utilizes vacant land to improve local access to nutritious foods and to promote sustainable resource use by growing and distributing produce and by demonstrating ecological methods of living.
Come and learn how Mill Creek Farm [...]

Fasting. While this is a blog about food, I want to post about the absence of food. If you think about it, the slowest food possible is the food that never reaches your mouth. While I am not Catholic, I personally find this time of year a good time to [...]

I have been archiving most of the emails that were floating around about policy change. there seems to be a lot of energy here, but perhaps a lack of direction. at the end of the last meeting (syracuse grows/SFCNY joint policy change meeting) people were instructed to send their “wish list” to liz [...]

I recently read an article in Hobby Farms magazine about planning a garden. The article mostly discussed different ways to keep charts and store information, however it touched on phenology as a method of timing plantings. I had never heard of this before so I began to look around and inquire more about [...]

I hope everyone is having a great holiday season, whatever your beliefs. Be aware of the food you eat, but also be aware that the most important thing (in my humble opinion) is to let food bring everyone together. I think April McGreger says it best in her Thanksgiving post on Grist (also [...]

Here’s an awesome New York Times article discussing the possibility of redefining the position of Secretary of Agriculture into a role that actually focuses on nutrition and food rather than industrial profit (who would have thought?).

The fabulous Georgianna Burke will be presenting tomorrow night at the Beauchamp Library! The meeting is titled:

“CREATING GARDEN HARMONY: Integrated planting to avoid pests and disease.”

The meeting will go from 6PM to 8PM – I hope some of you can make it. Bring snacks or a dish to share too!
This, by the way, [...]