July 1st, 2008 at 2:28 pm | 0 Comments | Categories: General
July 1st, 2008 at 8:51 am | 0 Comments | Categories: Event
This month: Our Garden
Our Garden is a ten-acre family farm seventy miles west of St. Louis in New Florence, MO. They grow a wide variety of naturally grown fruits and vegetables. Plants and herbs are available in the spring. Jams, pickles and seasonal vegetables, along with goat cheese and goat meat are available throughout the year.
Come shop at the Maplewood Farmer’s Market and stick around to hear about their farm and what it takes to get their wonderful, fresh, local produce to our markets and our tables. Then enjoy some delicious specials using ingredients provided by Our Garden and prepared by Bottleworks Chef Matt Bessler.
6-7 p.m. Slow Food St. Louis Meeting in the Crown Room
7-7:45 p.m. Settle in and place your orders if you’re dining
7:45-8:45 Guest farmer presentation
8:45-9:00 Q&A
Stay as long as you’d like!
Next Month: August 13: Ivan’s Farm - Dittmer, MO
June 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm | 0 Comments | Categories: General, news
I’ve already spoken to a few of you individually, but this email is for the entire Slow Food Heartland community regarding our emerging efforts to help the farmers and food artisans affected by the storms and floods of the last couple weeks throughout the Heartland. There are a number of ways you and your convivia can help, and I hope you will consider any or all of them
We have established the
Terra Madre Relief Fund for precisely this purpose. Some of you may remember of the great successes this fund had, under Poppy Tooker’s able guidance, in raising over $40K to help victims of Katrina and Rita. Today the fund exists to help all those farmers and food artisans struck by natural disasters nationwide, and right now the focus is on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.While we are indeed fortunate that the loss of human life in this tragedy has been relatively low, the stories are nonetheless as sad as they are all too numerous; such as Susan, a farmer in Iowa who’s 102-year-old barn was lost to one of the storms last week, leaving much of her livestock without shelter; and Andrew, who’s entire crop of heirloom lettuces took a beating from the hail that same week. Livestock has been swept away, almost 3 million acres of of freshly planted farmland is underwater and 35,000 people’s homes have been destroyed - this in Iowa alone. Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri are seeing much of the same.
But just as it was for so many after Katrina, such as Kay and Ray Brandhurst, the shrimpers in Louisiana who’s trawler got a new engine thanks to the
TM Relief Fund, so that they could get back to providing good, clean, fair food, there is hope for the folks in the Heartland as well. We intend to help get these farmers back to the markets, and get those markets back up and running.So I am writing to ask you for your help, not just for donations (though of course we need those too), but also for the stories of the people you know who were affected by this terrible flood.
Please also consider organizing a benefit event within your convivium to help us raise the money that is so desperately needed, or perhaps to refocus an event you already have planned to benefit flood relief. And please be sure to ask each of your members to give generously at
this link or by sending checks (made out to Slow Food USA - with “Terra Madre Relief Fund: Iowa” in the memo) to the address below.I’m here to help with event planning, as are the regional governors and the SFUSA national office. In some cases I may be able to attend events, since I will be touring with my book starting in September anyway (something I’ll discuss with you all under separate cover), and a portion of the sales of every copy of my book will go to this fund.
We truly appreciate, and are relying on your generosity. Please give at the
Terra Madre Relief Fund, and feel free to contact me at any time with comments or questions. Thank you all so very much, and I’ll be in touch soon with more details.June 19th, 2008 at 6:59 am | 0 Comments | Categories: Event
The third annual Slow Food St. Louis Art of Food is shaping up to be an exciting one. Details are still pending, but the line up of chefs is looking tremendous, and you’re not going to want to miss it.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
June 17th, 2008 at 8:53 am | 0 Comments | Categories: Event
How cool will you be when you’re waving around your signed Michael Pollan book collection?
I don’t know, but you can find out if you win because Slow Food USA is pleased to announce that the 4th Annual Online Auction is now LIVE!
Visit the Slow Food USA auction web page for a complete listing of all of this year’s items up for grabs:
http://slowfoodusa.org/support/auction.html
