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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!

The Maitland Pumpkin & Squash Seed Bank Project

5 May 2023

Slow Food Hunter Valley is calling on citizens to become part of the planting, growing, hand pollinating, harvesting, and seed-saving of Maitland’s iconic pumpkin! This humble vegetable has been part of the historical, sporting and cultural fabric of our community for many years, however our beloved pumpkin is facing a serious challenge. While Maitland farmers …

How to Make A Flower Bomb?

4 May 2021

In May, Slow Food calls on every European citizen to take a stand for biodiversity and pollinators: this is the “Flower Bomb Challenge”! Participants have two weeks to make their “flower bombs” (a mix of wildflower seeds, clay and soil) and will be invited to throw them around in their garden or in public spaces …

Slow Food Launches the “Flower Bomb Challenge”!

22 April 2021 Alice Poiron

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt”. Margaret Atwood’s words of wisdom inspired us: spring made its come back, it is time to get our hands dirty! Starting on May 5, Slow Food will kick start the “Flower Bomb Challenge”. Participants will have two weeks to make their …

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 …

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 …

Exploring the Food Treasures of the Andean Chocó

23 November 2020 Javier Carrera, Network of Seed Guardians

Those of us who are dedicated to saving seeds have a special passion for hidden treasures, those plants that almost nobody knows, that have been forgotten, but that keep secrets of unique flavor and nutrition. Nina Duarte, a Seed Guardian recognized by our network since 2007, is no exception. But she has taken her passion …

Every Seed is a Symbol of Resistance – a Terra Madre Conversation

11 October 2020

The forums of Terra Madre are moments of discussion in which the members of the Slow Food Network – producers in the many Communities and Presidia, cooks, activists, and experts – debate issues related to agriculture, nutrition, sustainability, biodiversity, and production models. The focus this year at Terra Madre is different ecosystems, beginning with the …

The Grain Renaissance in the United States: The Case of the Colorado Grain Chain

21 April 2020 Andrew Calabrese

A food renaissance focused on grain is happening in the United States and many other countries. The people behind it are raising awareness about the humble grains that have been central to the daily diets of humans around the world for millennia: rice, wheat, oats, maize, barley, rye, buckwheat, amaranth, millet, sorghum, quinoa and more. …

Come and pick your Presidium product!

25 June 2019

An initiative by the South African Rex Union Orange Presidium, launched by the Slow Food Community of Supporters in Gauteng, South Africa On Sunday 2 June 2019, the Slow Food Community of Supporters in Gauteng held an event directed at increasing the awareness of a rare local variety of orange. For the past six years …