Terra Madre este sábado

  

MENSAJE DE ELIZAMA MONTALVO:

El 08 de diciembre 2012 El convivium  Boricua  de Slow Food celebrara Terra Madre Day (un día para celebrar la comida orgánica local a escalaglobal) http://www.slowfood.com/terramadreday/.Aquellos que deseen apoyar a la organización; Slow Food Internacional, con una donación de $10, usted recibirá una membresía de un año a Slow Food Internacional, ( http://www.slowfood.com/international/25/become-a-member?-session=slowfoodstorecom:18E309491b8481D61CIrFD52BC3A )  además de un relajante masaje corporal de 10 minutos con Bartus Allen. La inscripción de miembros y masaje tendrá lugar el Dec.8 en el mercado natural del Viejo San Juan, entre las 8 am - 1:00pm www.mercadoagricolanatural.com.

 El convivio Boricua, usara la plataforma del Mercado de La Tierra del Viejo San Juan para incluir durante el dia de Terra Madre el Festival de la Banana. Estaremos vendiendo platos diversos basados en la banana o el guineo como le decimos en Puerto Rico. Esta fruta es usada como vegetal en la cocina la comida de Boriken, especialmente durante la epoca navidena. Los fondos recaudados seran usados para apoyar la Campana 1000 Jardines en Africa 

http://www.slowfoodfoundation.com/pagine/eng/orti/dettaglio.lasso?-id=3756 ), bajo los auspicios de Slow food Internacional. Contacta con Elena Biamón (finca.gripinas @ gmail.com) obtener datos adicionales de la Fiesta Local del plátano. 

También se unió a la Organización de Eco-Agricultura Orgánica Boricua, de 11:00 am -11:30 am.  El Uso de Agrotoxicos en el Cultivo de los Guineos por Roger Dil & El Guineo Transgénico por Carmelo Ruiz.Tendrán una charla sobre la política y la industria de cultivo de banano en América Latina y su adecuación a la realidad puertorriqueña.   http://www.organizacionboricua.org/2012/04/farmers-organization-promotes-eco.html                   

Espero verles pronto. Gracias

Carlo Petrini has a message for us

Slow Food's Carlo Petrini gives a message about Prop 37. from Slow Food San Francisco on Vimeo.

Intervale Center's Healthy City

Stuck in Vermont 90

By Eva Sollberger

When did kale become so cool? Down at Burlington's Intervale Center, the Healthy City kids are growing vegetables, becoming farmers, volunteering in their community, working a summer job and changing the world, weed by weed.

Check out all the good things the Healthy City Youth Farm has to offer.

Music: Keith & Tony's Freestyle

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Slow Food Nation Victory Garden: Planting July 12

June 13th, 2008 by Sarah Rich

Beginning July 1, the lawn of San Francisco’s City Hall will undergo a transformation from grass carpet to edible garden. The installation of the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden marks the first time that City Hall has hosted an edible garden since 1943. We will begin by pulling up turf (which will be replanted in other parts of the City’s green areas) and planting beets, lettuce, kale and many other heritage varieties of vegetables. The food grown in the garden—most of which will be ready for harvest during Slow Food Nation’s Labor Day event—will be donated to those with limited access to healthy, organic produce through a partnership with local food banks and meal programs.

Slow Food Nation is producing this project in partnership with Victory Gardens 2008+, whose mission is to respond to the social and ecological challenges that San Franciscans and all urban residents face in creating more self reliant, ecologically sound and socially just urban human habitats.

The Victory Garden project takes its name from 20th Century wartime efforts to address food shortages by encouraging citizens to plant gardens on public and private land. In the early 1940s, gardens sprouted in front yards and vacant lots, and produced 40 percent of the nation’s vegetables. San Francisco’s victory program became one of the best in the country; Golden Gate Park alone had 250 garden plots.

The SF Victory Garden program redefines “Victory” in the context of modern urban sustainability: “Victory” means growing food at home for increased local food security and to reduce the food miles associated with the average American meal, not to mention as a way of saving money during a time of economic instability. As Deborah Madison pointed out today at Culinate, the Victory Gardens of WWII exist only as memory and history, but in the near future “we might once again have to feed ourselves, and even if we don’t have to, there’s much to be said for growing some food and working outdoors.”

The Slow Food Nation Victory Garden will serve as a demonstration and education centerpiece leading up to and following our Labor Day event, providing visitors the opportunity to learn about urban food production practices.

We’re looking for volunteers—experienced gardeners and novices alike—to help us keep the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden thriving from July – September 2008. For more details and to enroll as a Victory Garden Volunteer, please email your contact information and availability to info@slowfoodnation.org with “Victory Garden” in the subject line.

Renderings courtesy of SMWM Architecture, Urban Design + Planning

Tags: San Francisco City Hall, Slow Food Nation, Victory Gardens

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