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MEET RODRIGO CALA
Founder of Shared Ground Farmers Cooperative offers ways farmers and consumers can collaborate to build a better world for all of us.
Eat the news in Bites: Local Food Community News, January 2021
In this issue: Brightside Produce combating Twin Cities food apartheid with fresh produce, NATIFS supports the next generation of food leaders, plus fun new music from the Land Stewardship Project celebrating the power of soil
Eat the News in Bites: Local Food Community News
The fight to protect wild rice against Line 3 construction, Gatherings Cafe and Chef Brian Yazzie serving joy and justice, Dream of Wild Health food shares, and MN350’s new podcast Nourish.
Heavy Table Returns: An Interview with Founder James Norton
We try to reflect the reality that’s taking place in all of its complexity, and sometimes its negativity. From there…you can start looking for voices of hope, people working productively, and people doing positive things within that context.
Food Leaders You Need to Know: Pa Houa Shasky
“Breast milk is the first food that an infant is exposed to. It also has properties that formula doesn’t have, and that can’t be synthesized in a lab. These two things make it the foundation for healthy living.” - Pa Houa Shasky
What We're Working On: November 2020 Board Meeting Minutes
Gather screening, All-member call with Anna Mule, EIJ & IDI inventory, Growing Edge and shared leadership conversation, user personas, food justice page, Snailblazer awards.
Farm dinners and foodie events are not enough.
We’ve been a place to connect with joy over food. To discover and share the joyful work of people in our community. But hosting farm dinners and foodie events are not enough.
What We're Working On: October 2020 Board Meeting Minutes
EIJ Action Items, October Email Newsletter, Interactive Volunteer Onboarding tool, virtual office hours, SFYN Equity, Justice, Inclusion podcast, Terra Madre online
Join the Board, connect with Local and National leaders
Board members connect the local work of Slow Food to the national and international movement. Consider applying to be a board member.
Coinciding with the development of Slow Food USA's BIPOC Affinity Group, Project Manager Dan Mueller will continue to host office hours — one for any and all members of the Slow Food community and another for Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) community members only. If you would like to learn more about what the BIPOC affinity group is all about, these hours offer a great opportunity to ask questions and discuss.