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A New Slow Food Earth Market in Mexico. In Toluca

27 August 2021 Marco Gritti

To be held every second and last Saturday of the month and to be inaugurated on August 28 Slow Food’s Mexican Earth market network is expanding and August 28 2021 will see the inauguration Mercado de la Tierra Verde Alternativo di Toluca. The venue for this fortnightly market (to be held every second and last …

Yucatan, Steeped in Tradition and Ancestral Knowledge

18 April 2020 Diego Pinzón Mañé

Perhaps more than in other places in Mexico, the ancient traditions, customs and rhythms are part of daily life in Yucatan. In some parts of the region, the Mayan language prevails over Spanish, and in some cases Spanish is not spoken at all. The peninsula is rich in many ways: culturally, is home of the …

Initiatives to support local farmers spring all over Latin America

8 April 2020

The Slow Food network across the globe continues to develop initiatives to continue promoting good, clean, and fair food for all, and more than ever bring attention and support to local farmers and producers working daily against the modern current of industrialized food. In Latin America we find dozens of ideas sprouting as the quarantines …

Join the Slow Food Youth Network this Summer in Mexico

13 March 2020

SFYN Summer school 2020: applications are open! A unique opportunity to dive into Mexican biodiversity After the success of the SFYN Agri-food choices winter school in Kenya, the Slow Food Youth Network, is organizing the second training camp dedicated to international youth. The program will take place from June 29th to July 11th 2020, in …

Indigenous Nahua Women Break Barriers

13 February 2020 Paula Thomas

The Nahua indigenous women and their youth welcome the Indigenous Terra Madre Pueblos de America to their homeland of Tlaola, a town in the state of Puebla, Mexico. These women have been working for almost three decades to develop and grow their local projects and their business, Mopampa. In 1992, a group of Nahua women …

The Dark Side of Your Avocado Toast

6 August 2019

As we want to discourage the provoking over-consumption of avocado in these days of distorted media output, we thought it opportune to share and hear the stories that are still possible to tell. Why more stories? Because one thing has always remained clear to us: our choices make a difference and a small sacrifice from …

#SaveTheHive – Join the Bee Rescue Team with Slow Food Mexico

23 February 2017

Bees are our primary farmers, and their disappearance signals bigger problems that we all need to be aware of. Slow Food Mexico has recently launched the #SalvaLaColmena (Save the Hive) campaign to spread awareness on the issue and inform us on how we can be a part of their campaign to help save the bees.