Slow Food Santa Cruz

The medicinal qualities of this amazing plant are many and the fragrant elderflower makes for excellent tea, tonics & cordials. Join us at ALBA - Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association on Saturday, May 18th for a deep dive into the Elderberry and flower with Katie Reneker of the Carmel Berry Company.

Elderberry Tour & Tastings
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edible-live-elderflower-tour-tastings-tickets-863203764697

Get ready for Home COOKed 2024! 🍳

Join us virtually from 12pm - 3pm PST on Wednesday, March 20th.

This year, we're diving into the theme of "Growth," celebrating our organization's progress and the evolution of the home cooking movement. Get ready to grow with us at the 2024 HomeCOOKed Conference! 🌱

Free tickets are available now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/840970694987?aff=oddtdtcreator

Edible flowers make the most beautiful salads! Sea to Sky Farm has a lot of good edible flowers & especially love the color they bring to food.
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=sea%20to%20sky%20farm

Herbal Wellness Workshop
at the Live Oak Grange
Sat. Nov. 4th from 3-5pm

Herbal Wellness Workshop Join Herbalist Lianne Neptune in a hands on workshop for making a variety of wellness remedies to keep us healthy this Winter.

Bill AB626, (that legalizes home cooked meals), is one step closer to becoming a reality in Santa Cruz County. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at their Sept. 19th meeting to proceed with directing their staff to draft an ordinance for review. Hats off to both Supervisor McPherson & Supervisor Zack Friends offices & staff for championing this bill!

Just a reminder to all interested in submitting pickles, jams, baked goods and other "slow food" county fair delights, that the deadlines for entries are coming up!
Click on the Santa Cruz County Fair website link for complete fair guidelines and submission dates...
https://www.santacruzcountyfair.com/

Open Farm Tours tickets are now on sale! We have 12 farms participating this year and a new "Friends & Family" weekend pass to tour multiple farms for $20 per carload of up to 5 people!
Click on the link below for more information & to purchase tickets.
http://www.openfarmtours.com

So inspired by David Korten and the perspective of community driven food & agriculture.

David Korten: Reimagining a Sustainable Food Economy From the archives: In this 2011 interview, David Korten, author of "When Corporations Rule The World", shares his optimistic vision for a food system that's ...

Exciting news for community cooks... announcing AB 1325! This bill would allow MEHKOs to sell up to 90 meals per week and earn up to $100,000 annually, doubling the current monetary limit! We need your support to help get this bill passed! Click on the following link to learn more and make your voice heard:
https://mailchi.mp/cookalliance/announcing-ab1325

Putting up this years batch of tomato jam and loving the fruits of labor that went into making it. Small batch cooking required & well worth the efforts!

Thomas Farm in Aptos is hosting an Open House on Feb. 19th from noon - 4pm. Food preservation demos, nature crafting, food & more! The cost is $5 per car and pre-registration is required to attend. Click the link below for more information and to register...

Thomas Farm Open House Spend a relaxing Sunday afternoon at the farm & get a sneek peek at all the new workshops and activities we have lined up for 2023!

Love seeing the fantastic food products being created at Terroir In A Jar utilizing the bounty of our regional farms.

Oh yes we did
Made with thmost beautiful San Marzano tomatoes , rich balsamic , onion and garlic with a hint on cinnamon and clove ..
Bada bing
Can find at the farm cart in San Martin or coming soon to Locale ..

Early Girl Tomato U-Pick this Saturday. Time to get saucing!

Sea To Sky Farm Hosts Tomato U-Pick, Canning Workshop - Edible Monterey Bay October 11, 2022 – Farmer, mother, surfer, environmental steward and proud Santa Cruz resident Christiana Laughlin is getting ready to harvest her first sweet potatoes of the season at Sea to Sky Farm. The coastal fog is ruling right now, but as she steers a course for fall and all those squashes ...

Want to celebrate a phenomenal food leader in your life? Nominate them for a 🌟Snailblazer Award🌟! This annual initiative from Slow Food USA recognizes the growers, educators, activists and storytellers who are defining good, clean and fair foodways in the US. Our previous Snailblazer awardees will choose our finalists, who will be recognized in a virtual ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 10. Check out our brief nomination form and complete your recommendations by Saturday, Oct. 15! https://airtable.com/shrJGjjUYTGdAjshH

Open Farm Tours this weekend...
OFT Collection link
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/2022-open-farm-tours-1016019

Open Farm Tours returns Oct. 8-9 - The Pajaronian | Watsonville, CA The event, which has been held for the past nine years, is more than doubling the number of farms participating compared to 2021.

Food Justice Film Festival ONLINE | SEP. 15-18 Presented by the Center for Biological Diversity This is a free festival, open to all.

Slow Books Announces Abra Berens' "Grist" as Third Annual Network-Wide Read-Along • Slow Food USA Maybe you’ve joined Slow Books for our read-along programming for “How to Be An Antiracist” or “Braiding Sweetgrass,” or perhaps this will be your first read-along. Either way — we’re glad you’re here!

We owe deep thanks to four departing Slow Food International Councilors: Jennifer Breckner, Denisa Livingston, Tiffany Nurrenbern and Kathryn Lynch Underwood. They have been incredible liaisons between the Slow Food movement here in the US and across Turtle Island and our leaders and activists from around the world.

As last month's International Congress ended in Pollenzo, Italy, so too did their terms of service to Slow Food. We are grateful for their work to collaborate across cultures, continents and contexts. Please join us in celebrating Kathryn, Tiffany, Denisa and Jennifer — and enjoy this photo of them with Slow Food Founder Carlo Petrini!

Mitigating flooding aside, the myriad of benefits Community Gardens create are endless. Turning unused or underused public spaces into Community Gardens should be a priority for Every Municipality!! 🥰

Extreme Weather Is Soaking New York City. Community Gardens Can Help. Intense storms are on the rise, which probably means more flooding. Local green spaces are on the case.

Life Lab » School Garden Support Organization Leadership Institute Every year, the School Garden Support Organization Leadership Institute provides an opportunity for school garden professionals from across the country to collaborate, learn from one another, and develop resources to share with a national audience. In this way, we all become able to better support s...

Dismantling injustice on Juneteenth and beyond • Slow Food USA Dismantling injustice on Juneteenth and beyondJun 16, 2022 | EIJ, Food Justice, StoriesIn conversation with Jim Embry, Activist And Farmer, Sustainable Communities NetworkEdited by Michelle DiMuzio Can you tell us about the meaning and legacy of Juneteenth from your perspective?In my family, we had....

THIS WEDNESDAY 06/08/2022 🏞 Come talk about the seaweed commons 💥

What? 's Meet & Greet Webinar: The Seaweed Commons.

When? This Wednesday June 8th, 1:30pm ET 🗓

Join kelp harvesters from Seaweed Commons for the second LCN Meet & Greet to learn more about changing seaweed economies and their role in the marine environment. We will discuss existing and emergent seaweed markets, case studies on seaweed biodiversity and disease, and projects underway to promote a more sustainable seaweed sector. This webinar invites the broader marine community into the conversation around localized, ecological seaweed systems and how we can be in collaboration with other seafood producers.

Sustainable Seafood Guide | NAMA: Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance Find a pdf copy of the guide here. Purpose of this Guide This guide aims to provide a high-level overview of the seafood landscape in order to empower folks in making seafood purchasing decisions. It’s important to note that ethical consumerism alone won’t save our fishing communities nor the oc...

Some photos from the Santa Cruz Second Harvest Food Bank Tour today. We'll be doing another one this summer for their 50th anniversary. Great to see good food being distributed with such care and efficiency.

Joy Amidst a Pandemic: Sharing Seeds • Slow Food USA Joy Amidst a Pandemic: Sharing SeedsMay 19, 2022 | Biodiversity, Chapter Highlight, Slow Food Chapters, Slow SeedBy Michelle DiMuzio, Communications Coordinator When the pandemic broke out, the fragility of our supply chain was spotlighted, especially in the world of seeds. Seed companies, garden st...