Slow Food is a non-profit member supported International movement, founded in 1989 to counter the rise of 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.
Being a part of the Slow Food Movement means being more proactive in your community and living a healthier lifestyle. Here are a few interesting ways to live the Slow Food lifestyle.
Stroehmann Bakeries Walk + Run Against Hunger
Saturday April 9th, 2011
The Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger fights hunger through education, outreach, and advocacy. We ask that you join them and their partners on Saturday April 9th, 2011 for the 15th annual Stroehmann Bakeries Walk + Run Against Hunger. Your support will help more than 100 food pantries, soup kitchens, and hunger relief agencies that feed families in Southeastern PA and South Jersey. The Walk + Run will benefit the region’s leading hunger-relief agencies, including the Coalition Against Hunger, The Food Trust, SHARE and Philabundance. We urge you to please sign up by going to their website www.hungerwalk.org.
Community Supported Agriculture
Our friends at Grid Magazine published a great guide in their April edition to help you join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). If you want to learn more about CSA’s you can join us at our April 13th seminar at the Restaurant School with Casey Spacht who runs the Lancaster Farm Fresh CSA.
From May until November area farms are offering you an opportunity to buy their seasonal fruits and produce by becoming a member and receiving a weekly box of ripe seasonal bounty. They have pick up locations throughout the region for your convenience. Grid listed seven local CSA’s in their recent guide. You can visit www.gridphilly.com to learn more about these particular CSA’s listed below.
Down to Earth Harvest – Farm located in Kennett Square
Kimberton CSA – farm is located in Kimberton
Greensgrow Farms – Farm is located in Kensington
Lancaster Farm Fresh – 64 Family Farms in Lancaster County
North Star Orchard – Farm located in Cochranville
Blooming Glen Farm – Farm located in Perkasie
Red Earth Farm – Farm located in Schuylkill County
If you are looking for a directory to local Farmer’s markets and/or other CSA’s in your area you can visit any one of these great websites for more information:
www.farmtocity.org
www.localharvest.org
www.thefoodtrust.org
Community Gardens
Spring has arrived so if you want to join one of the many local community gardens in your area, all you need to do is go to this website to get more information on gardens around the city, gardening advice, and other gardening information. You just enter your zip code to locate a garden in your neighborhood. Educators from the Horticultural Society will be leading a seminar for us at the Restaurant School on May 18th – Growing a Kitchen Garden/ Herbs and Vegetables.
