Category: Sustainable Agriculture

What exactly IS Slow Food? · 27 August 07

If I could, I would give everyone a snapshot of last week’s Harvest Garden Party. It was a joyful, cooperative, delicious, celebration of food grown and served by children attending summer camp at the Teton Valley Community School. It was what the Slow Food movement is all about.

Cultivating Kids: Harvest Garden Party · 4 August 07

I knew my 5-year old daughter “got it” when we were driving down the road in Teton Valley this spring and she shouted out the window a greeting to the fresh soil, when she had a tantrum about not being able to eat purple carrots in December, and when she recently helped me identify which weeds I needed to pull in our strawberry patch.

Patagonia Dreamin' · 20 June 07

This November our family will embark on a long-standing dream to live in Southern Patagonian Chile for six months. We will make our base at the Estancia Rio Verde, owned by the Santelices family, 100 km from Punta Arenas. During this time we will immerse ourselves in the agrarian lifestyles, study the food and traditions of the culture, and help run the 14-room Posada Rio Verde (bed and breakfast).

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Just For Kids · 16 June 07

School’s out, the sun is shining, and summer is in full swing. There is no better time to teach kids a reverence for fresh, local food, how it grows, and just how good it tastes. Tips include gardening, finding farm fresh food, cooking, cheesemaking and Food Fun in Teton Valley.

Purple Carrots · 30 April 07

No one is advocating a return to the dark ages. But reviving our local food economy has the potential to unite our divided community, save our agrarian heritage, help slow global warming, and preserve the beautiful scenery we treasure.

A Locavore's Night Out- April 24 · 31 March 07

I have a dream that the Local Food Movement and the quest for good, clean, fair, food can help untie our diverse community. Reviving our local food economies has the potential to guarantee an accessible and affordable supply of healthy, fresh food from regional sources, preserve our agrarian heritage, strengthen our local economy and save our environment.

photos: Paulette Phlipot

Revolution in the Air · 11 November 06

In the spirit of cooperation rather than competition, 4800 small-scale farmers, breeders and artisan food producers, 1000 chefs, and 400 academics, writers and policy makers from every continent worked toward a common goal of good, clean, and fair food.

Terra Madre Blog · 22 October 06

check out the Terra Madre Blog. It already has listings from all over the world and will give you a feel from other participants.

Why me? · 14 October 06

I’m not a famous chef, an artisan food producer or a wine expert. I’m someone living in the middle of the American Farm crisis, I’m terrified by the obesity epidemic, I love to cook for my family and I am desperate to help save what little cultural diversity has thus far survived globalization.

Good Food for Real People · 22 August 06

Is it possible to follow a philosophy that if it doesn’t taste good, if it isn’t healthy, if it isn’t affordable, if it isn’t worth sharing, we don’t buy it? Can people trust us?

Walk the Talk- Part 2 · 30 July 06

... fully immersed in food and sustainability. Deciding which recipes to bake, which fruits to buy (and from who- the fruit stand, the grocery or the mega market), which ingredients to use (the CRISCO issue was a big one), and interacting with customers at the farmer’s market has given me a chance to concretize my ideas …

Spreading the Cosmic Stuff · 19 May 06

Thoughts that I might, along with Jed, have gone crazy entered my mind periodically. They were quickly brushed away by a firm belief that modern chemical agriculture is destroying the planet and there has to be a better way.

Get The Real Dirt on Farmer John · 7 May 06

Slow Food in the Tetons presents a special screening of this blockbuster documentary. Not from the Tetons- find a theatre near you.

Who Owns Your Food · 19 April 06

Ready for the truth about which corporate giant supplies your organic kitchen?

The Meatrix and Meatrix 2 · 18 April 06

Factory farming meets the Matrix in these funny but scary short animated movies staring a cow, a pig and a chicken.

Will Walmart Become the World's Largest Supplier of Organic? · 25 March 06

A burning controversy has ensued over an announcement that Walmart will double their organic offerings.