Slow Food CNY

Here’s the agenda for our March meeting.  It’s a little less robust this time around because we want to spend a lot of time brainstorming and coming up with concrete goals for the year.
The meeting is this Sunday, March 7th at 10am.  Send an email to slowfoodcny@gmail.com for location information, we’d love to see you [...]

The trees are bare.  The ground is frozen.  Snow lays heavy on the ground.
What a better time than to flip through seed catalogs and dream of green?  Just remember the Power of the Pocketbook when ordering!  To help you navigate seed ordering, we here at Slow Food Central New York have a few socially and [...]

We wanted to pass this along from our friends at NOFA, looks like an exciting opportunity…
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The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) is the oldest and largest organization in New York devoted to organic and sustainable farming and gardening, [...]

The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) is the oldest and largest organization in New York devoted to organic and sustainable farming and gardening.   Their programs provide technical assistance to farmers, organic certification services,organic farm research, consumer education, and advocacy for policy which is friendly to organic farms. The mission is to create [...]

Pre Registration Ends January 8, 2010
NOFA-NY’s 28th Annual
Organic Farming & Gardening Conference
January 22 – 24, 2010
The Saratoga Hilton Hotel & Conference Center
Saratoga Springs, NY
Join us for more than 80 workshops, 3 keynote speeches, organic trade show, entertainment and
local [...]

I’m sure many of you have heard about novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, a work of non-fiction called “Eating Animals,” about what we eat and factory farming. The book received a lengthy review in the New Yorker and turned Natalie Portman from a vegetarian to a vegan.
I haven’t read the book, [...]

[ November 12, 2009; 5:00 pm; ] Next week there will be a meeting to discuss community gardening at ESF.  This is an open meeting.

Where: Marshall Hall, Nifkin Lounge (Basement)
When: Thursday, November 12th 5p.m. – 7p.m.

In the interest of being as efficient as possible, please come prepared to discuss the following questions:

What is the mission of community gardening at ESF?
Where can [...]

[ November 18, 2009; 7:30 pm; 7:30 pm; 7:30 pm; ] Frances Moore Lappe, of the Small Planet Institute, will be speaking on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 7:30 pm at Albright Auditorium, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. Her talk is called “Food, finance, and climate: Seeing common roots, searching for solutions”

From the Hobart, William Smith website:
Frances Moore Lappe is a democracy advocate and world [...]

Is everyone getting excited about the Fall Harvest Potluck on Sunday?  Do you know what you’re making?
Many of you have asked if you can bring children to the event.  The answer is a resounding YES!  This potluck is open to all and is intended to be family friendly.  Bring everyone and share the food love!
We [...]

For those of you who have not had the pleasure of Jamie Oliver’s cookbooks or television shows, please review the New York Times article below! It gives a good background of who he is, and about his latest idea for television.  His idea beautifully meshes reality television with the very real concerns of [...]