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...
Creating Virtuous Networks for a Solidarity That Is Never Futile 1 September 2017 How many times have we heard it said, even from unexpected sources, that the work of NGOs and foundations in Africa or South America may well be motivated by good intentions, but is entirely irrelevant given the mountain of...
The first Slow Food Earth Market in Australia 16 August 2017 On the east coast of Australia, in the rich alluvial farmland of the Hunter Valley, the farmers of Maitland launched the country’s first Earth Market, on August 3rd 2017. Slow Food Earth Market Maitland celebrate the farming traditions and rich...
Terra Madre Burkina Faso: Voices From the First Terra Madre in West Africa 25 June 2017 The name Burkina Faso translates as “land of honest people,” and this beautiful, fascinating country on the western Africa is home to over 60 ethnic groups—and as many languages—who have inherited an enormous cultural and environmental wealth which translates...
International Day For Biological Diversity: Endangered Foods 22 May 2017 During the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, socio-political challenges and a disease known as potato blight obliterated the dietary staple for one-third of the population, resulting in the deaths of about 1 million people. Over a century later,...
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....
