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Making your own vegetable garden at home: seven tips from seed to harvest

16 May 2023

Tending your own vegetable garden is surely one of the most relaxing and satisfying pastimes, taking care of it day by day and following it through the cycle of the seasons. With a little effort, anyone can do it. You just need to take a few simple precautions, especially if it’s your first attempt – and as spring is here, now is the perfect time to get your fingers green!

Biodynamic pork brawn, siphon bread and organic Naccari caviar

16 March 2021

A new recipe from the Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance in Germany: biodynamic pork brawn, siphon bread and organic Naccari caviar. Today Marcello Gallotti, a member of Carlo Catani’s “Tempi di Recupero,” a network of cooks promoting the use of scraps and leftovers, shares with us his recipe for a tasty sustainable main course: biodynamic pork brawn, siphon bread and organic Naccari caviar.  Marcello and Andrea Gallotti, who first met as students at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo could never have guessed …

Uruguay Welcomes its First Earth Market: Colonia Valdense Joins the Slow Food Network

11 March 2021

The network of Earth Markets, farmers’ markets that follow Slow Food principles, is expanding to Uruguay, bringing the number of countries with at least one market to 28. Uruguay’s first Earth Market is in Colonia Valdense, a small town in the south of the country. Here, a group of producers have already been meeting weekly for …

New Policy Brief: What do the EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies mean for Slow Food?

22 February 2021 Alice Poiron

A brand-new Policy Brief titled “What do the new EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies mean for Slow Food” Slow Food Europe has published a brand-new Policy Brief titled “What do the new EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies mean for Slow Food”. The document, available in English, German, French, and Italian, gives an in-depth analysis …

Meet the new Task Force of World Disco Soup Day 2021!

22 February 2021 Valentina Gritti

World Disco Soup Day 2021: A group of worldwide activists dreaming to stop food waste. The 24th of April will mark the date of the 5th World Disco Soup Day 2021, the international Slow Food Youth Network campaign to raise awareness about food waste. Every year a group of activists from all over the …

Slow Soup Drive: A Response to Covid-19

19 February 2021

Slow Soup Drive to tackle food waste, malnutrition and food security. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the fact that there are many who do not have adequate access to wholesome food, especially families with low or no income. The truth is, however, that this need was there even before COVID-19 appeared. As a response, the Slow Soup Drive was born in April 2020, organized by Slow Food …

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (Giahs) – Farming And The Future Of The Planet

27 January 2021

THE FAO’S GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM (GIAHS) Slow Food is collaborating on the project “Building Capacity: International Advanced Training Course on GIAHS (Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems),” co-funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) with the involvement of the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) of the University of Florence as …

Exchanges on the field with the delegates of “Shaping the Future of Food in Africa”

5 December 2019

Inviting people to participate in advocacy for change in the food system can seem unrealistic: how can we advocate if we don’t go out and learn from the virtuous examples that exist around us? That’s why today, the delegates of “Shaping the Future of Food in Africa” as well as the Hivos and Slow Food teams went to three different institutions based in Kenya to get a first-hand experience of the future of food in the local area.

Glyphosate Malaise: Are Ridiculously Cheap Foods and Clean, Tidy Fields Really Worth the Cost?

20 June 2017 Cinzia Scaffidi

Slow Food discusses the issues around what is the most commonly used active substance in agriculture today and offers tips on avoiding it in the foods you eat or grow.

Growing the future in Rojava

5 May 2017

The city of Kobanî came to international prominence during the autumn of 2014, when Islamic State (ISIS) attacked it. After a long, drawn-out and ultimately unsuccessful siege, in which thousands of people died and several thousand had to abandon their homes, Kobanî become a symbol of hope and resistance throughout the world. But then what? Once the fighting was over, Kobanî quickly became old news. Meanwhile, for its residents, life goes on. And as ever, a secure food supply is priority that comes before all others.