Slow Food SEMO

08/16/2024

Looking for pasture raised, antibiotic and hormone free truly local beef, lamb, pork, and chicken? What about fresh milk, award winning sheep's cheese, soaps, jams, and much more? Mesta Meadows has what you need. Available this weekend at:

The Mason Jar Store Friday 2 to 6, and Saturday 9 to 4, Glenallen, MO

Cape Riverfront Market Saturday 8 to Noon

Also available every day in St. Louis at:

City Greens Market - 4260 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis

The Kerry Cottage - 113 Kirkwood Road, St. Louis

Local Harvest Grocery - 3108 Morganford Road, St. Louis

Fresh, fun, local food!

07/04/2022

01/18/2022

Join us now for our monthly board meeting

Message us to learn more about how to become a part of Slow Food SEMO!

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12/17/2021

Our favorite night of the week… picking up food waste!

Thanks for all who participate and believe in the mission. And for those German chocolates.. you know who you are!

Interested in the program, the movement, and continuing the food cycle? Let’s get connected with the downtown Cape Curbside Compost pickup program!

compost

11/18/2021

Compost Pick-Up this evening in Downtown Cape!

The Volunteer collection team will be by participating homes this evening between 5:30 and 6:30 to collect your buckets and drop you off a clean one!

If you interested in signing-up, you can click through straight to this project on our webpage at https://www.slowfoodsemo.org/compost . You can also reach out directly to our project manager Aaron with any further questions you may have.

11/08/2021

Crazy to think that this was the first weekend that this parking lot wasn't full for the Cape Riverfront Market!

What a beautiful journey the 2021 market season has been! Getting to share most of the Saturday mornings with old Slow Food enthusiasts, new Slow Food enthusiasts, and general local food enthusiasts. We visited with current composter's as well as stated relationships with new composters. Some signed up for our on-going Downtown Cape Curbside Compost Program and other's with more time and energy rekindled compost systems of their own!

What is slow food? Why compost? Why does local food have more value than mass produced, genetically modified food? How does one begin to shift their consumption habits? What even goes in compost? These were ALL conversations we had with market goers outside (and inside) of the Slow Food SEMO Snail Shed at the western end of the market grounds.

While this year's market season has formally ended, that little green garden at the bottom of the screen has sparked LARGE conversations with even LARGER impacts! We look forward to continuing to paint this picture of a diversified local food economy, alongside a growing model of our curbside compost service, further helping complete the food cycle and repurpose food waste right here in our downtown community.

As we can continue to transition with the changing seasons, we have exciting plans for the garden, the continued evolution of our compost service, Farm to Table Dinners, and Education based gatherings. We'll continue to keep in touch digitally with our Facebook and Instagram accounts, but we also send out detail through our organization email list about public board meetings, events, and other news relative to Slow Food and our local food economy. If you or anyone you know feel called to join the Slow Food SEMO Organization, you can join on our website at slowfoodsemo.org! There you can also find more information about our mission, direction, and growing plans in the local community 😉

Our friends at Old Town Cape, Inc. also send out a weekly email about events in the downtown community. If you haven't already subscribed to their e-newsletter, shoot them a message and get signed up - you never when you'll see one of our events on there!

11/05/2021

We would like to thank everyone who dropped off pumpkins down at the Slow Food SEMO Snail Shed in the past couple days!

We were able to share a load with our friends Kelly & Nathan at NK Ranch for various use around there farm.

While our space is quickly filling up, if you or anyone you know still have pumpkins we’d MUCH rather figure out a way to compost them than to let them go to waste and create more methane with other rotting trash. There is space for more pumpkins in the “closed” bin on the south end of the shed.

Thanks again for spreading the word - have a great weekend!

11/02/2021

Ain't nothin scarier than food waste!

Check out the details below for pumpkin drop-off at the Snail Shed tomorrow evening! If you know someone that needs to see this but isn't on social media, please share this with them!

Drop off is at the downtown Snail Shed tomorrow evening!

11/01/2021

Joel Salatin on Food Inc shows a better way to produce food than the factory farm system.

10/30/2021

It's the last morning of the Cape Riverfront Market!

We'll be back near the garden on the far east side of the market lot. Swing by for a chat, a cup of herbal tea, and to extend some gratitude to your favorite market vendors that have been here every Saturday for the last 6 months!

Local downtown residents can also sign up for our downtown curbside compost program, as well as learn about new projects down the garden bed ;)

Wherever you're at this morning, Slow Food SEMO wishing you all a wonderful last weekend of October!