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Friday Night Happy Story: Slow Food Nation Edition

by: Jill Richardson

Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 19:00:00 PM PDT


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Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture:
(I posted on this yesterday but it's good news from this week, so here it is again)
What exactly are we for? Slow Food Nation had a bunch of experts put their heads together to hash it out. They have posted their Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture online this week.

Food For Thought: Today, Slow Food Nation brought together many of the leading voices about food in the country, including Marion Nestle, Timothy LaSalle, Michael Pollan, Winona LaDuke, and Eric Schlosser. You can expect to read more about these magnificent speakers and what they had to say on this site in the near future.

Oakland Goes Green: Often left in the shadow of nearby uber-green San Francisco, Oakland made the news this week. A Garden Grows in Oakland tells the story of Oakland's many urban farms and their roles in poverty-stricken parts of the city.

Even Wall Street Journal Takes an Interest This week, Wall Street Journal published an article called Eat Up, Kids, This Spud's for You about farm to school programs. How exciting!

What's your happy story?

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Ireland's Slow Food movement is gathering strength as well. (0.00 / 0)
Slow Food is fast-track to good, healthy food production and consumption - and of course marketing, especially through farmers' markets.

Last year, RTE 1 (our own BBC) aired the first in a new 8-part series, Fresh From The Farmers' Markets. It was presented by Clodagh McKenna, our indefatigable campaigner for Slow Food, organic produce and instigator of many of our recent farmers' markets. She visited markets and producers and then concocted dishes from gathered ingredients. We have our own organic market every Fridays, and it's well attended. My partner thinks that one day we'll be selling apples there (we have now over 50 various breeds of apple trees)

Sic Transit Gloria Locavore!



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