Hi Everyone,

 

I love Spring! It’s when the earth comes back alive and everything wakes up (including me!)

 

This past week, in celebration of Earth Day, I helped the folks at Westbury High School plant a Native Flower Garden. Even though there weren’t many volunteers, we got  native plants into the ground and it added some beauty to the campus. I look forward to going back in a few weeks and seeing how they are doing.

 

I harvested huge bowls of Shiitake Mushrooms from two areas in my garden where we inoculated oak logs with spores years ago, and they keep giving.  I love

cooking them up and freezing them in small batches, so I have them ready when I want them!

 

Every year, Slow Food runs a “Give What You Can” campaign to make it possible for anyone to join the organization and for money to not be in the way. Whether you join for $1.00, $5.00 or $60.00, the Give What you Can Campaign welcomes you into the Slow Food Movement with open arms! The Slow Food movement is a push back against fast-food, and a gateway into understanding our food system, where your food comes from, how it is grown, who grows it, and how it gets to your table. It is a celebration of food and the joy of coming together around a shared table, filled with friends, family and lots of love!

 

Slow Food USA just announced the dates for Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2026, Slow Food’s biennial event. It is a festival that brings people together from around the world to celebrate and promote Slow Food’s mission for Good, Clean and Fair Food! The Salone will take place in Turin, Italy, from September 24 to 28 , all across the city’s historic squares and palaces.  

 

Terra Madre is Slow Foods global meeting place: four days in which Slow Food communities from over 100 countries come together to exchange experiences, 

strengthen alliances, and act as a movement. Through conferences, thematic itineraries, and shared spaces, food cultures once again become a driver of peace and social transfo

rmation.  

In a world threatened by homogenisation, exclusion, and multiple crises, diversity — biological, cultural, and human — is the foundation of fair and resilient food systems and the strength of our collective action as a movement.  I have gone to Terra Madre 6 times, and it is wonderful and different every time! You should consider going if you can!

 

If you wish to participate as a visitor or exhibitor, please write to espositori@slowfood.it. For any other questions, please write to s.odwyer@slowfood.it.