Two events coming up on October 16 & 17:

October 16th: Syracuse Grows Workshop
“Food Deserts and Food Security in Urban Communities”

• Location: The Atrium Building, 2 Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY
• Time: 12:00 – 2:30 pm
• Description: Anan Xola Lololi, food justice advocate and urban agriculture pioneer, will be visiting Syracuse to speak on Food Deserts, as well as give an informal workshop on Community Gardening Administration. The event will be brown bag lunch and will have a suggested donation of $5. Please join Syracuse Grows on World Food Day <http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/>  in a discussion of these important issues.

October 17th: Syracuse Grows-CSA CNY-Slow Food CNY
Fall Harvest Potluck Dinner

• Location: The Assumption Church Parish Center, 800 N Salina St, Syracuse, NY
  (enter by the green doors on Catawba Street)
• Time: 4:00 – 6:00 pm
• Description: Bring a dish to share and celebrate the harvest with us.  Keynote presentation by Anan Xola Lololi and updates from our organizations.  Snail awards, too.  All welcome.

On Saturday, September 25, 2010, from 10am – 12pm, Slow Food CNY is breaking ground in Syracuse.  We are tying in with Slow Food USA and other Dig In events all over the country to help create a world where food is good for you, good for the grower and good for the planet.

Where: Hughes Elementary School, 345 Jamesville Avenue, Outer Comstock neighborhood, Syracuse 13210.

Here’s what we are up to on Saturday, come on out and put down some roots!

• 10:00am:  Help us establish “edible landscaping” for students and neighbors of Hughes Elementary to enjoy and add to in the coming years. We’ll prepare garden beds and plant apple trees, blueberries, and flowering perennials.

• 11:30am:  Take a guided “edible walk” near the school and learn about edible and medicinal plants growing all around us.

• 12:00pm:  Break bread at the celebratory potluck in the Hughes cafeteria.  Bring a dish to pass!

Please bring:  shovels, garden gloves, perennial garden plants you’d like to donate, a lunch dish to share with others, and your own plates and utensils.

This event is free and open to the public.  Parking is available at the school.  Hughes Elementary is located south of East Colvin Street on Jamesville Avenue.  The edible landscape site can be accessed most easily from Hughes Place.  Here is a map to Hughes Elementary.  See you Saturday!

One month from tonight! Experience Slow Food, Slow Brew on Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 6pm at Empire Brewing Company, 120 Walton Street, Armory Square, downtown Syracuse (315-475-2337).  Enjoy local food, beer, and wine, support local business, and fund the Slow Food CNY chapter – all at the same time!

Tickets are $55 per person for 8 courses of food/beer/wine pairing.  Tickets are available at Empire Brewing Company.  Slow Food CNY sincerely appreciates Empire’s support of our local chapter!  Download the menu and the gorgeous new flyer.

This Saturday, February 13, 2010, Syracuse Grows and Canopy present Gardening in Syracuse, from 10am – 1pm at the Bob Cecile Center, 174 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse.  Three workshops will focus on managing physical conditions of soil, successful vegetable gardening, and soil toxicity.  Learn more about this free event here.

On Saturday, March 13, 2010, the 2010 Upstate NY Permaculture Gathering, hosted by Alchemical Nursery, will  be at the Gear Factory, 200 South Geddes Street, from 10am-5pm.  RSVP and flyer are now available here.

Both events help us build experience towards a sustainable, self-reliant CNY food supply and fit right in with Slow Food.  To get inspired, take a look at Josh Viertel’s essay in the Atlantic, “Why Big Ag Won’t Feed the World.”  Josh Viertel is president of Slow Food USA.

This fall, Congress will decide whether to update the Child Nutrition Act, a federal law that governs the National School Lunch Program.  This act comes up for reauthorization every four to five years and it determines what 30 million children eat at school every day.  For many children, school lunch is their only meal of the day.  Right now, these children are forced to choose between going hungry and being unhealthy.

On Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2009, tens of thousands of people in communities across the nation will sit down to share a meal with their neighbors. This National Eat-In will send a clear message to legislators: our country is coming together for a future where no child is denied his or her right to good health, and where every child enjoys real food in school.

Join Slow Food Central New York for a public potluck picnic! Share a meal and show support for getting real food in schools.

Elmwood Park pavilion, Syracuse
11:30am – 2:30pm

Bring a blanket, chair, your own plate and utensils, beverage, and a homemade dish to share.

Directions:
Elmwood Park is in the southwestern portion of Syracuse.  The park entrance is just west of the junction of South Avenue (Rt 175), Valley Drive (Rt 80), and Glenwood Avenue.  MAP

• From South Avenue or Valley Drive, go west on Glenwood and watch for the park entrance on your left.
• From the northwest:  Take Geddes Street to Glenwood Avenue.  Turn left on Glenwood, drive past Roberts Elementary, and continue east to the park entrance on your right, across the street from Craddock Street.
• From the east: Take either Colvin Street or Brighton Avenue to South Avenue.  Turn left and drive towards Glenwood Avenue.

The picnic pavilion is in the center of the park.  The park road leads to a small parking lot above the pavilion.  Alternatively, leave your car in the lot next to the old mill, near the park entrance.  Follow Furnace Brook upstream to the picnic pavilion, a 5-10 minute walk.

Please read information on potluck food safety.

Colorful brochure on potluck food safety.

More details:

In a time of escalating diabetes and obesity epidemics, our schools serve children precisely the fast food and junk food that endangers their health.

This year, Congress can give schools the resources to improve school lunch by increasing school lunch reimbursements by $1/child/day in this year’s Child Nutrition Act. The current reimbursement rate for a free lunch is $2.57, which must also pay for labor and equipment.  Schools are left with only $1.00 to spend on food.  It’s time to make a down payment on health care reform by raising the reimbursement rate to $3.57.

Tell US Congress you support reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act.

You are invited to attend a WTB Organic Gardening Workshop

Saturday, May 2, 2009
1:30 p.m.

Elderberry Pond Farm & Restaurant
3728 Center Street Road
Auburn, NY  13021
315-252-6025

Driving directions can be found at www.elderberrypond.com

Join us for lunch at the Elderberry Pond Restaurant, followed by a discussion and slideshow on organic gardening.  This will be followed by a farm tour.  We will have time to ask our own specific gardening questions.

This is an open invitation.

Please feel free to bring your spouse, partner, or a friend

Please register by replying to elkillian@verizon.net

Serving both Vegetarian and Vegan fare.

There is no charge for the workshop.

Lunch runs around twelve dollars.

Please feel free to come to the workshop only.

The workshop will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the restaurant.

Let’s carpool! We can meet at 12:30 p.m. at the Jowonio School and drive out together.

We received the following from our food-loving neighbors in Utica. Sounds like a great opportunity to get to know the foods of this beautiful and historic city.

Slow Food Friends:

Back by popular demand, but with changes, is our Ethnic Slow Food Tour of Utica. As you can see, the date has been changed from March 7th. Utica’s Heart Run-Walk is that morning, and we thought it would be a bad idea to be trying to drive around town that day.

So here is our itinerary for Saturday, March 28th:

11:30 Meet at Pulaski Meat Market (Polish and Central European), 1201 Lenox Ave.

Lunch at Thuy Cafe (Vietnamese Noodles), 657 Bleecker St.(Warning: I have heard that the soups here are not vegetarian friendly).

Senshine (Russian and East European Grocery) 600 Culver Ave

Phnom Penh Market (Cambodian) 1641 Oneida St, Utica (315) 797-3128

Around 3:30: Coffee/Tea/Dessert at Café Domenico, 2011 Genesee St. (Opposite The Uptown Theater. Oren Domenico points out that this isn’t exactly “ethnic,” but it is close to the last stop and is an
establishment worth supporting!

There is more driving than the last time we did this. It’s a 3 mile or so rectangle. People can carpool from Pulaski’s or arrange to meet at Cafe D. to start with and carpool from there.

Here are the directions place-to-place from Mapquest; I could not figure out how to send you the map, but you can plug in the addresses yourself if you want one.

Please RSVP to nguttman@hamilton.edu by March 26 if you plan to come!

Best wishes,

Naomi Guttman
Co-leader, Central Leatherstocking Slow Food Chapter

MapQuest directions have been sent to you by nguttman@hamilton.edu.
From: 1201 Lenox Ave, Utica, NY 13502-3909 US
To: 657 Bleecker St, Utica, NY 13501-2404 US
To: Senshine Market, 600 Culver Ave # 1, Utica, NY 13501 US
To: Phnom Penh Market, 1641 Oneida St, Utica, NY 13501 US
To: Cafe Domenico, 2011 Genesee St, Utica, NY 13501 US

DRIVING DIRECTIONS
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A) 1201 Lenox Ave, Utica, NY 13502-3909 US
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1. Start out going NORTHEAST on LENOX AVE toward KNOX ST. (go 0.1 miles)
2. Turn RIGHT onto GREEN ST. (go 0.1 miles)
3. Turn LEFT onto SCHUYLER ST. (go 0.5 miles)
4. Turn RIGHT onto ORISKANY ST W/NY-5S E. (go 1.0 miles)
5. Turn RIGHT onto JOHN ST. (go 0.1 miles)
6. Turn LEFT onto BLEECKER ST. (go 0.4 miles)
7. End at 657 Bleecker St Utica, NY 13501-2404
>> ESTIMATED TIME: 7 minutes | DISTANCE: 2.14 miles
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B) 657 Bleecker St, Utica, NY 13501-2404 US
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1. Start out going NORTHWEST on BLEECKER ST toward 3RD AVE. (go 0.2 miles)
2. Turn RIGHT onto 2ND ST. (go 0.1 miles)
3. Turn RIGHT onto NY-5S E/ORISKANY ST E. Continue to follow NY-5S E. (go 1.4 miles)
4. Take the CULVER AVE ramp. (go 0.1 miles)
5. Merge onto DWYER AVE. (go 0.1 miles)
6. Turn RIGHT onto CULVER AVE. (go 0.3 miles)
7. End at 600 Culver Ave # 1 Utica, NY 13501
>> ESTIMATED TIME: 4 minutes | DISTANCE: 2.19 miles
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C) Senshine Market, 600 Culver Ave # 1, Utica, NY 13501 US
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1. Start out going SOUTHWEST on CULVER AVE toward CULVER CT. (go 1.0 miles)
2. CULVER AVE becomes MEMORIAL PKWY. (go 2.6 miles)
3. Turn RIGHT onto ONEIDA ST. (go 0.1 miles)
4. End at 1641 Oneida St Utica, NY 13501
>> ESTIMATED TIME: 9 minutes | DISTANCE: 3.73 miles
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D) Phnom Penh Market, 1641 Oneida St, Utica, NY 13501 US
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1. Start out going SOUTHWEST on ONEIDA ST toward GRANT ST. (go 0.1 miles)
2. Turn RIGHT onto MEMORIAL PKWY/PLEASANT ST. (go 0.3 miles)
3. Turn LEFT onto GENESEE ST. (go 0.3 miles)
4. End at 2011 Genesee St Utica, NY 13501
>> ESTIMATED TIME: 2 minutes | DISTANCE: 0.81 miles
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E) Cafe Domenico, 2011 Genesee St, Utica, NY 13501 US
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TOTAL ESTIMATED TIME: 22 minutes | DISTANCE: 8.89 miles