Slow Food USA

Connecting people, communities, and local food cultures to build a food system that is good, clean, and fair for all.

Through education, advocacy, and collective action, we support sustainability, equity, and the joy of food.

08/31/2026

TO OUR MEMBERS: YOU BROUGHT US HERE.
You believed food could be a source of joy, justice and connection.
You gave your time.
You gathered your communities.
You supported farmers.
You kept traditions alive.
You made Slow Food a movement.

CAMPAIGN 4000 honors everything our members have built and invites us to write the next chapter together.

FROM BELONGING TO STEWARDSHIP
A member belongs to the movement.
A Steward belongs and accepts responsibility for its future.
Not only asking, “What can I experience?”
Also asking, “What can I help make possible?”

YOU’RE HELPING BUILD
The connections that strengthen chapters
The tools that equip local leaders
The stories that bring visibility to producers
The relationships that create markets for heritage foods
The foundation Slow Food needs for the years ahead

KEEP CARRYING THE STORY
Campaign 4000 offers three pathways for participating in this work: Steward, Advocate and Ambassador. Each represents a different way to invest, engage and lead.

Your belief helped bring Slow Food this far. Now, we invite you to choose your pathway and keep carrying the story.

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08/27/2026

Hospitality has always had the power to bring people together. During Negroni Week, it can also help build a better food and beverage system.

Negroni Week returns September 21–27, bringing bars and restaurants together in support of Slow Food's mission to protect a world where food and beverage are good for people and good for the planet.

Venue registration is now open with a minimum $25 donation. Venues that donate $250 or more will receive special recognition as Premium Donors on the Negroni Week website and venue map.

Add your bar or restaurant to the map and your voice to a global movement. 🐌🌱

Register by September 18 at noon Pacific time at negroniweek.com.

08/26/2026

New perk alert for Slow Food members. 🐌🏦

We've teamed up with , a certified B Corp bank built to fund a better food system. Most banks quietly use customer deposits to finance whatever earns the highest return, often including fossil fuel projects. Walden Mutual takes a different approach, directing its lending toward farms, fisheries, food businesses and nonprofits, many of the same people and places Slow Food USA has spent decades advocating for.

Here's how to take part:

Already banking with Walden Mutual? Become a Slow Food USA member and use promo code SFUSAWALDEN at sign-up.

New to Walden Mutual? Open and fund an account and enter promo code SFUSAWALDEN when you submit your account application. Once your account is opened, Walden Mutual will reimburse your Slow Food USA membership fee.

See full Terms & Conditions here: https://waldenmutual.com/terms-conditions/reciprocal-membership-reimbursement-program. The offer includes a one-time reimbursement of up to $60 for individual membership or $250 for business membership. The minimum balance to open an account is $100.00. Account must be in good standing to be eligible. Member FDIC.

Good food starts with a good food system, and that includes where our money lives. 🌱

08/24/2026

Our food carries memory, culture, nourishment and connection. It reflects the health of our soil, the dignity of our farmers and the strength of our communities.
Protecting it requires more than passive support.

Campaign 4000 is a call to invest, participate and help build the future of Slow Food. Whether you join as a Steward, Advocate or Ambassador, your commitment strengthens the movement working for good, clean and fair food for all.

What we love is worth protecting. Join us.
Register at: https://camp4000.slowfoodusa.org/

08/23/2026

Reminder: National Roundtable Call is this Tuesday! 🌱

Join us for our monthly National Roundtable Call, a space to gather, share updates, and connect with fellow Slow Food leaders, volunteers, and interested community members from across the country.

Don't miss it on Tuesday, August 25th, at 8:00 PM ET.

Register to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/aVk62x9CRXeJDv_ZKXSCxQ

08/22/2026

Join us for a Joyful Dinner on September 5th at Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery!

📆 Saturday, Sep 5, 2026 · 4:00–8:00 PM
📍 Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery, 4410 N Lincoln Ave, Champaign, IL

Illinois is one of America's largest grain-producing states, yet most of what's grown there disappears into a global commodity system rather than reaching our own tables. This evening is about the movement to change that.

Slow Food USA Executive Director Kris Reid will open the evening with remarks, followed by a panel on preserving and strengthening our regional grain economy.

Then, a locally sourced buffet dinner from Janie's Mill, Prairie Fruits Farm cheeses, and more.

This Joyful Dinner is hosted by Central Illinois Bakehouse Central Illinois Bakehouse and Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery, part of the Salt Fork Food Works family of local, sustainable businesses in Central Illinois, the kind of community partnership we at Slow Food USA are proud to support.

🔗 Register here: https://www.prairiefruits.com/event-details/slow-food-usa-community-meal-discussion

Applications for Fall Joyful Dinners are opening soon! Stay tuned for how you can host or attend one near you. 🌱

08/21/2026

For over 50 years, Alice Waters has been redefining what it means to eat well and to eat with purpose. In 1971, she opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, built on a simple idea: local, organic, seasonal food connects us to our communities and to each other.

That idea grew into a movement. In 1995, Alice founded The Edible Schoolyard Project using an organic garden and kitchen classroom to teach kids academic subjects through hands-on learning. The model has since been replicated in over 6,000 schools worldwide.

Her work has earned her the National Humanities Medal, the Julia Child Award, and the No Kid Hungry Humanitarian Award, among others. Now, through her push for School Supported Agriculture, she's working to make sure every child has access to a free, delicious lunch made with food from local, organic, and regenerative farms.

📅 Join this Lunch and Learn on August 27 at 1:00 PM EST as Alice sits down for a conversation about what happens when kitchens, farms, and schools work together.

🌱 From Chez Panisse to School Supported Agriculture: Seeding the Revolution
🔗 Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LtXuxMyrS3-wC6QXyedJXA

08/18/2026

Garlic season is here 🧄

SlowFood Hudson Valley celebrated the season at Rigor Hill Farm in Columbia County by inviting members and friends into life on a regenerative farm: walking the fields, harvesting garlic, cooking together and gathering around a very long table to share a meal.

Co-host and SFHV Board Member Josh Rosas put it perfectly "As we pull garlic from the soil, and as we taste the wonderful food prepared, let us think about the culture and people behind maintaining local foods... and how these foods are the foundation of our collective cuisine."

The meal, created by Vice Chair Mona Talbott, celebrated the Hudson Valley's abundance with ingredients from many local growers, including Rigor Hill Farm, Liberty Farms, Letterbox Farm, Sparrowbush Bakery, Whitecliff Vineyard, Branchwater Farms, and Pogliani Select.

The afternoon also marked a milestone: SFHV's Spring Benefit raised $70,000 to support local programming, farmer initiatives, and community engagement.

All together, the Garlic Harvest Supper celebrated what Slow Food does best: bringing farmers, cooks, eaters, and communities together around good, clean, and fair food.

Find your local Slow Food chapter and take your place at the next table. Visit https://slowfoodusa.org/

Credits & Tags
Slow Food Hudson Valley

Host Farm
Rigor Hill Farm

Farmers
Josh Rosas
Luke Ippoliti

Menu
Mona Talbott, Slow Food Hudson Valley Vice Chair

Featured Farms & Producers
Rigor Hill Farm
Talbott & Arding Cheese and Provisions
Dirty Dog Farm
Fat Apple Farm
Liberty Farms
Letterbox Farm
Sparrowbush Bakery
Whitecliff Vineyard and Winery
Pogliani Select
Branchwater Farms
Sky High Farm

Photography
John R Gruen

08/15/2026

Last week, our Policy Coordinator Brett joined food and agriculture advocates from across the country at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition’s () summer meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Brett connected with organizations doing vital work, including the Center for Good Food Purchasing (), RAFI () and the National Farm to School Network (). She also toured Spring Creek Food Hub (), the Center for Arkansas Farms and Food () and Ozark Natural Foods Co-op (), seeing firsthand how communities are putting shared food values into action. 🌱

While the meeting was underway, the Senate Agriculture Committee considered the Agricultural Act of 2026. The bill failed to advance in a 10–11 vote, with proposed changes to SNAP remaining a central concern. Although the bill included support for local and regional food procurement, its positive provisions were not enough to outweigh the potential harm to families and states.

The committee could return to the bill this fall. Slow Food USA will continue advocating for policies that strengthen regional food systems and ensure good, clean and fair food for all.

Food policy belongs to all of us. Follow along, share this update and help keep food justice on the national agenda.

08/13/2026

One week. One iconic cocktail. One global community pouring with purpose. 🥃

Negroni Week returns September 21–27, bringing bars and restaurants together in support of Slow Food and a world where food and beverage are good for people, good for those who produce them and good for the planet.

Venue registration is now open with a minimum $25 donation. Venues that donate $250 or more will receive special recognition as Premium Donors on the Negroni Week website and venue map.

Add your bar or restaurant to the map and your voice to a global movement. 🐌🌱

Register by September 18 at noon Pacific time at negroniweek.com.

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