“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.” —Michael Pollan

NEW SLOW FOOD WEBSITE www.SlowFoodNorthumberland.com

Next Potluck Gathering
Check back for the date of our next potluck meeting in Northumberland County. Bring your appetite, your enthusiasm, ideas, a tasty treat to share,& join us in sharing good, clean and fair food throughout Northumberland.

If you’d like to Get on the Slow Food Northumberland contact list for future gatherings and events, or call 705-696-2556. We are a volunteer based group and would love your help to organize events and activities in and around Northumberland.

COMMUNITY PRESS NEWS ARTICLE: Back to the days when taste reigned

Along with several local food producers, B & B establishments, restaurants, bakeries, distributors, chefs, academics and all those who work for responsible and sustainable food production, Wholearth Farmstudio would like to invite you to help us form a new Slow Food convivium for Northumberland County. Our farm raises heritage breed livestock and heirloom varieties of vegetables, many of which are on the Slow Food Ark of Taste, and we are keen to learn, educate, share and feast with our local community.

NORTHUMBERLAND NEWS ARTICLE: First Slow Food Northumberland Gathering
We are delighted by the turn-out on January 18th for our first meeting at Hastings House Bed & Breakfast. The energy, interest and devotion to “Good, Clean and Fair” food for our area is inspiring. With almost 50 attending & another 20 plus sending regrets & a wish to be involved in future meetings, we consider the first get together a great success & an indication that the time has come for the formation of a Slow Food Northumberland convivia.

What Is “Slow Food”?

“Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. To do that, Slow Food brings together pleasure and responsibility, and makes them inseparable. Today, we have over 100,000 members in 132 countries.” — Slow Food

Explore the Slow Food philosophy, history, mission and ideas at Slow Food International

The Slow Food Mission

Slow Food works to defend biodiversity in our food supply, spread taste education and connect producers of excellent foods with co-producers through events and initiatives.

Defence of Biodiversity

Slow Food believes the enjoyment of excellent food and drink should be combined with efforts to save the countless traditional grains, vegetables, fruits, animal breeds and food products that are disappearing due to the prevalence of convenience food and industrial agribusiness. Through the Ark of Taste and Presidia project (supported by the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity) and Terra Madre, Slow Food seeks to protect our invaluable food heritage.

Taste Education

By reawakening and training their senses, Slow Food helps people rediscover the joys of eating and understand the importance of caring where their food comes from, who makes it and how it’s made. Convivium activities introduce local foods and producers to both members and non-members, while Taste Workshops offer guided tastings with food experts. School initiatives like convivium school gardens offer our youngest eaters hands-on learning experiences about the food they eat and grow themselves.

The Ark of Taste

Ark of Taste items that are currently raised (or we are planning to raise) by Wholearth are:

Some of the Ark of Taste foods that Wholearth raises now (or hopes to this season {not bold}):

• Old-Type Rhode Island Red chicken
• Wishard Bronze Turkey
• American Buff Goose
• American Chinchilla Rabbit
• Black Jersey Giant Chicken
• Bourbon Red Turkey
• Buckeye Chicken
• Cayuga duck
• Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean
• Chiltepin pepper
• Christmas Lima Bean
• Crane Melon
• Delaware Chicken
• Desert Oregano
• Dominique Chicken
• Fish Pepper
• Giant Chinchilla Rabbit
• Gilfeather Turnip
• Green-striped Cushaw winter squash
• Greenthread tea
• Hidatsa Shield Figure bean
• I’itoi Onion
• Java Chicken
• Marrowfat Bean
• Mayflower Bean
• Montreal Melon
• New Mexico Native tomatillo
• O’odham Pink Bean
• Ozette Potato
• Plymouth Rock chicken
• Sea Island Red Peas
• Sibley Squash
• Southern Field Peas
• True Red Cranberry Bean
• Wyandotte chicken
• Yellow-Meated Watermelon

The Canadian Ark of Taste list:

• Canadienne Cow
• Chanteclair chicken
• Herring Spawn on Kelp
• Miners Lettuce
• Montreal Melon
• Nodding Onion
• Nova Scotia Gravenstein Apple
• Red Fife wheat
• Saskatoon berry
• Tamworth pig
• The Great Plains bison

Mission and Philosophy reprinted here excerpted from Slow Food