Programs
Slow Food Berkeley's ongoing programs put our values into practice. We build relationships with food producers, teach traditional food and gardening skills, raise awareness and bring people together around a common table.
The
Bay Area Meat CSA
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Until there are big changes in the way meat gets to market, the most cost-effective way to buy good, healthy, sustainably raised meat is to cooperate with your neighbors to purchase whole animals directly from local ranchers. The Bay Area Meat CSA is a social network to help you find neighbors who want to buy "shares" of meat with you. Every few months, we organize "Meat and Greets" to build the network and give you the chance to meet and talk the ranchers. |
Grandmother
Workshops
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Grandmother workshops are informal classes on the traditional cooking and gardening skills our grandmothers used to teach us. The classes are taught by amateurs - though not always by grandmothers - and are usually collaborative, e.g. a group canning or sauerkraut-making.
The last grandmother workshop was, the Giardiniera
Workshop and took place on October 12, 2009.
Click here for our upcoming
Grandmother Workshops. |
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Want to help?
Slow Food Berkeley's leaders are all volunteers, and though we'd like to do more, our time and resources are limited. Here are some ideas for programs we think would help support the local food community. We invite you to take one on, or write us to suggest another.
> Biweekly drinks and discussion at a bar serving good local beer
> A monthly picnic after the Saturday farmers' market
> A workday at a community garden or with a program like City Slicker Farms or the People's Grocery
> Visits to nearby farms
> Film screenings
> Neighborhood food, garden or foraging walks
> Church potlucks
> Cooking lessons
> Volunteer days
> Seedball workshops and guerilla gardening expeditions
> Co-sponsored events
> Seed exchanges
> Teach-ins, talks and more |
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