A new dawn in Kirinyaga County with the launch of the Slow Food Earth Market Kagio 3 August 2022 A unique ambiance filled with enthusiasm and joy defined the new Earth Market Kagio in Kirinyaga County. People walking between the tents filled with fresh produce, seeds, and organic fertilizer, ask questions, buy products, and are greeted by the...
Reflections on the Earth Markets and sustainability 30 April 2021 The Earth Markets are one of the most ambitious and complex Slow Food projects, requiring significant and continuous logistical organization between the participating producers. The goal is to create direct links between producers and the public, cutting out the...
A Party for Cuba! 24 October 2019 The Country’s First Earth Market Opens in Havana Havana has had its very first Earth Market! Sunday, September 29th, on a beautiful sunny day, over 500 people attended the inauguration of the first Earth Market in Cuba at the...
Vale Gül Girismen 9 May 2018 Gül Girismen, founder of Slow Food Foça Zeytindali and of the first Earth Market in Turkey passed away yesterday, after a long struggle with illness. Every now and then in life, alas not very often, we come across gifted...
Slowdowntown: Slow Food Cairo Convivium Earth Market 19 April 2018 In 2016, our Slow Food Cairo convivium began a partnership with Eish & Malh, a restaurant in downtown Cairo located on one of the most famous streets of the capital. Eish & Malh which translates into Bread & Salt,...
A market to nurture a new Slow Food community 7 April 2018 Artur and Justyna Kinasz might be young, but they have already done something great for their city. The Targ Pietruszkowy market in Krakow, the first Polish Earth Market, exists thanks to them. After the Podgórze meat market was demolished,...
A market to reconnect a community with its rural roots 20 March 2018 Everything started with a glut of overripe pumpkins. The supermarket that usually bought the produce grown by Matt Dennis, a farmer in Maitland, in Australia’s Hunter Valley, refused to take them off his hands. They weren’t shiny and perfect...
Drought-affected farmers need support – Slow Food Hunter Valley sets the example 5 March 2018 As a devastating dry period threatens the future of NSW farm land, the work of Slow Food Volunteers in the Hunter Valley region is being championed for the support that it is providing to local producers. Victims of an...
La Buona Strada wins Slow Food’s Gigi Frassanito award 28 November 2017 Slow Food remembers Gigi Frassanito, one of our historic collaborators and original coordinator of the Earth Markets project, who passed away five years ago, by awarding this prize in his name. The Commune of Montevarchi, Slow Food Colli Superiori...
Slow Food Uganda launches its second Earth Market in Manafwa 12 April 2017 The Manafwa farmers’ market is joining Slow Food international project of Earth Markets. The Manafwa market, established in 2017 thanks to the Slow Food Uganda network, is the second Ugandian Slow Food Earth Market, after the Mukono-Wakiso Earth Market....
