Archive for November, 2008
Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Alberta Farmers – Elna & Doug Edgar – featured in Slow Food Times
Slow Food Times is a Slow Food International newsletter highlighting inspiring developments throughout the global Slow Food community.
It was great to see Alberta’s farming community represented in a recent issue.
Here is the piece as it appeared:
Open Gate: Canadians Elna and Doug welcome students to their farm
Edgar Farms sixth-generation family property in central Alberta, Canada, is today managed by Elna and Doug Edgar who have launched an on-farm educational program, opening their fields to school groups during the harvest window in late May and June.
The tours, for students aged 10 and 11, offer hands-on experience in the various produce of the farm: dairy, beef and asparagus, bean and garden pea crops. Elna encourages the children to ‘touch, taste and feel’ and to pick the produce as she leads them around the property and teaches them about natural life cycles and seasonal consumption.
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Slow Food Calgary
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Community, Events, Global, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Manifesto on the Future of Food
Last evening, Slow Food members and guests gathered in the cozy eating quarters of the Wild Rose Brewery to listen to the tales of two farmers and a chef who attended Terra Madre 2008 in Torino, Italy. The room was comfortably packed. We drank delicious beer from its very source with bowls of steaming chili, sweet, thick slices of Wild Rose Brewery cornbread and wholesome, crusty Red Fife wheat loaves. Our bellies full, we settled in to hear the ardent words of Kris Vester (Blue Mountain Biodynamic Farms), Wade Sirois (Forage/Infuse Catering) and Kathleen Charpentier (Bison Ranchers of the Alberta Short Grass Prairie), three of the 44 people who represented Alberta’s food communities at this global gathering of peasant farmers, artisanal food producers, youth delegates, cooks and academics.
We will be posting condensed versions of their inspired views on both the Terra Madre gathering itself and the vision behind the gathering: to cultivate and proliferate local, sustainable food systems that uphold the Slow Food tenets of good (healthy, tasty), clean (sustainable) and fair (fair prices for product, fair wages for workers).
There were several references last evening to an influential document in the good, clean and fair food movement: The Manifesto on the Future of Food.
Click here to download the Manifesto and its companion documents (Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security, Manifesto on the Future of Seeds).
Community, Slow Food Calgary
Students and Youth: We want to hear from you!
Slow Food Calgary would like to work with students and our youth to spread the Slow Food message. We want to hear from young people who care about a healthy, sustainable and delicious food supply for the future.
We want to talk to you about how Slow Food’s vision for Good, Clean and Fair food for the planet may gain life in the places where young people study, work and play.
Click here to learn more about Slow Food International and its Youth Food Movement.
Get involved in the future of food. Students and Youth, we really do want to hear from you: Contact us at Slow Food Calgary.