National Events
Plant a Seed Kits on sale, now through May 2024
Slow Food USA invites growers to engage with climate and nutrition in our gardens and on our plates. Every year, the kit brings together a cast of rare and biodiverse seeds that tell a story. For 2024, we will feature grains and roots. We invite you to ground yourself and connect the dots between soil health, human health and planetary health by exploring roots and grains!
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Seven distinctive and delicious varieties, including four Ark of Taste crops, will wow you with their beauty, their abundance and you will not believe how much grain you can grow at a garden scale. Find out more at THIS LINK.
Terra Madre Americas, May 17-19, 2024
Slow Food International is hosting Terra Madre Americas, its inaugural event to allow for a dialog between different worlds (those of food producers, scientists, cooks, researchers and, above all, people) who will meet in Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento. and make the event an unmissable occasion for participation, connection and discussion.
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Terra Madre Americas will explore how food is interrelated with most aspects of our lives and environment, with specific focuses on the climate crisis, social justice and education in the food and beverage system through the lens of specific topics. Find out more at THIS LINK.
TAKE ACTION TO CELEBRATE AND DEFEND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ON MAY 22!
Each May 22, The International Day for Biological Diversity reminds us of the importance of growing the magical presence of biodiversity in our backyards, local farms and communities. Slow Food passionately advocates for biodiversity around the world; it’s one of the only paths forward to curb the climate crisis, revive our ailing global foodways, and maintain nutrition and taste in the food we eat every day.
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Today marks Slow Food USA’s inaugural Biodiversity Advocacy Day. We cannot simply admire biodiversity and bask in its glory. We must demand systemic change that can stimulate and nourish biodiversity from coast to coast (and in our oceans and waterways, too!). Today, join Slow Food USA activists in calling or emailing your elected officials to defend biodiversity.
Slow Fish Charleston, Nov 1-3, 2024
Come to historic Charleston from Nov. 1-3, 2024, and commune with seafood harvesters, fishmongers, distributors, chefs, educators, advocates and others in and around the seafood supply chain.
Together, we will collaborate, network, learn, innovate and celebrate all things seafood! Find out more at THIS LINK.