Slow Food USA

It's the weekend, finally. 🥵 Big question: What are you reading to relax and re-energize your connection to the good, clean and fair food movement? Our Slow Books team is at it again, sharing two terrific titles that you've got to check out to dive deep into passionate food narratives. 📕 Seasons at Lakeside Dairy by Lizzetta LaFalle-Collins 📕 Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate O'Shaughnessy Learn more about these books and pick them up from Slow Books partner bookshop.org today! #SlowBooks 📕 https://lnkd.in/e3Vi_iK7

🏳️⚧️ Queer food is Slow Food 🏳️🌈 We invite LGBTQ2S folx to join us on Aug. 29 from 4:30-6 p.m. ET for Queer Thriving: A Workshop Centered on Queer Farmer Priorities and Success! Members of the Queer Service Provider Cohort from Cultivemos have distilled data from a previous research process evaluating responses to the question: “What does thriving as a queer in agriculture mean to you?” Tune in to the workshop to learn the key themes the cohort discovered and join a discussion on what work you can do toward these visions of thriving. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gUEq-bFd

The AFS Youth Assembly is a unique platform that cultivates a global network of young leaders and changemakers through exchange, education, action and impact. Slow Food USA's very own Interim Executive Director Bilal Sarwari will be presenting and energizing the best leaders of today and tomorrow! Join Bilal and youth from across the world Aug. 16-18 in New York City for the 29th AFS Youth Assembly. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dpjNKZip

🐠 Tickets for Slow Fish Charleston are now on sale! 🦐 TICKETS: https://lnkd.in/gT3GEpbh Slow Fish 2024 is a collaborative gathering of fish harvesters, fishmongers, chefs, educators, researchers and advocates from across North America and beyond. Together, in stunning Charleston, S.C., we will create more direct supply chains based on Slow Fish values of providing good, clean and fair seafood to our communities and beyond. The conference will provide a platform to explore a broad range of topics including: 🌊 Reimagining local seafood supply chains 🌊 Aquaculture with values 🌊 Climate change impacts on seasonality, availability and production 🌊 Fair and equitable access to ocean resources 🌊 Community engagement in educational discussions around seafood with values Together, we will grow the Slow Fish North America network, build a community around Slow Fish values, and celebrate the joy of local and responsibly harvested seafood. JOIN US!

You (yes you!) have the power to infuse schools in your community with good, clean and fair principles. Learn how in our upcoming Slow Food Live event with Green Umbrella on Tuesday, Sept. 10! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gvYVB-23 Explore how your role within the school district, in the community or as a partner can help create a customized wellness policy that will benefit people and the planet. Join school wellness policy experts to determine your next steps as an internal or external stakeholder to establish, participate, and implement policies through a collaborative and diverse wellness committee. Speakers: 🍊 Cynthia Walters, M.Ed., Green Umbrella Regional Climate Collaborative, Green Schoolyards Manager 🍊 Anneliese Tanner, Executive Director of Food and Nutrition Services, Boston Public Schools 🍊 Jackie Sharpe, Education Program Specialist, Office of Nutrition, Ohio Department of Education & Workforce

🍎 Slow Food Russian River’s Community Apple Press is up and running! Sebastopol Times reporter Ezra Wallach wrote all about this event and the significance of the #ArkOfTaste darling Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple. Read: https://lnkd.in/gPGEq9tU "Situated on the grounds of the Luther Burbank Experiment Farm, their simple, timeless and efficient machine offers a free opportunity for residents living anywhere in the region to squeeze their own apples into fresh juice. Following their appearance at the Gravenstein Apple Fair this coming weekend, Bob Burke will be leading the press operation, which he says was, for a decade, the only community-oriented press of its kind in the entire country before Petaluma Bounty added one of their own a couple of years ago. A group of SFRR volunteers, which features a rotating cast of over 70 people, will operate the press on Saturdays and Sundays. Wanna-be juice makers can make a reservation for a 20-minute time slot. Each group can bring as many as 100 pounds of apples, although Burke’s team said that anything less than 150 pounds should be fine."

Hey, hey, it's Give What You Can Day! 😎 For $1, $3.65, $7 or any amount you wish, you can become a card-carrying member of the Slow Food movement 'till midnight tonight. Our 3,600 members show that they are committed to the good, clean and fair food movement by investing in our work and our future. Please join today and help us expand the table. The member benefits are great, but nothing is better than knowing you're building a better food future. Join us! https://lnkd.in/grQt_Hf4

⚡️ BIG NEWS: The Domestic Seafood Production Act was introduced in the House of Representatives on July 30 by Representatives Mary Peltola of Alaska and Troy Carter of New Orleans, LA. 🐟️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gE3hR-kS DSPA would fund community development projects to support seafood and mariculture processing. It focuses on uplifting low-income communities and seafood practices that benefit local fishing and mariculture producers. The Act also aims to protect the health of our oceans. It does this by prohibiting Federal agencies from permitting, authorizing or facilitating offshore aquaculture in U.S. Federal waters without an act of Congress. Slow Food USA has long advocated for DSPA and now hopes for a surge of co-signers and support from members of Congress. Powering up smaller-scale seafood harvesters and producers allows us to get leagues closer to good, clean and fair food for all. Stay tuned for next steps and opportunities to influence the passage of this landmark bill! 🌊 Many thanks to the Don't Cage Our Oceans coalition for years of hard work to bring this legislation to the surface.

🏆️ Snail of Approval is like the Olympics for food: it's an award that recognizes the best of the best when it comes to sustainable and community-centered food businesses. But how do our chapters evaluate and select the Snail of Approval awardees in their areas? Writer Robin Mosley connected with chapter leaders from Slow Food Vegas, Olympia and Sonoma County (and a Snail of Approval awardee) to understand the processes and considerations that ground their awarding work. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/g2_s3VqU "We’ve had a couple restaurant owners from other places around the country come in and see [our Snail of Approval award] and say, ‘Oh, I’ve been thinking of applying, should I do it?’ It’s like, yes, absolutely.” — Dani Garcia-White, co-owner of Yukon Pizza, a Snail of Approval awardee #SnailOfApproval

Good, clean and fair food for all starts with ensuring our newest generations have access to the resources they need. 👩👩👧👦 That's why it's so important to support the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act (H.R. 7024), a vital step in expanding and enhancing the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and addressing our nation's child hunger crisis. Under the House-passed bill, approximately 16 million out of the 19 million children currently left out of the Child Tax Credit will benefit, and an estimated 400,000 children and their families will be lifted above the poverty line, according to estimates from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Please contact your Senators today using FRAC's simple form, and make sure they know this is a Slow Food priority! Take action here: https://lnkd.in/g5gzb6r2 #foodjustice #goodcleanfair