By Tracey Bussanich This fall, Slow Food Thompson Okanagan celebrated fish in many ways, namely at the 15th gathering of the BC. Food Systems Network, taking place under the theme “Food from the Water, Food from the Land”. At the event, Okanagan Nation Alliance Fisheries Biologist Richard … [Read more...]
From The Farm / De la ferme
By Jerry Kitt Cows come home! I was starting to get a little worried. The cows were gone and the last time I saw them they were 16 km away. That may not seem like a long distance if you’re travelling by road but moving cows through the forest is nearly impossible for a non-cowboy like me. That’s … [Read more...]
Calling all Winnipeg Foodies / Appel aux foodies de Winnipeg
By / Par Cam & Anna (Winnipeg Convivium) Winnipeg Foodies, let’s build and restart. After years of inactivity, we want to revive the Winnipeg convivium. We are resuming its activities and we are eager to welcome new members and reconnect with its former members and supporters. We would … [Read more...]
From the Farm / De la ferme
By / Par Jerry Kitt Hunting season has arrived and our normally quiet road is seeing lots of new traffic. Usually two guys in a pickup truck. It’s easy to tell the hunters from the locals, they don’t tend to wave. All of our land is posted “No Hunting,” not that I mind hunters but I like to offer … [Read more...]
Posting Food / Colis gourmands
By / Par Tonya Lailey, Slow Food Calgary Planning Committee My niece is turning 13 and I'm mailing food: a meaningful hunk of Sylvan Star Grizzly Gouda in a cheese bag I bought at Lina's Italian Market. The bag is decorated with a cartoon mouse and that stock image of ghastly yellow cavernous … [Read more...]
Exploring all things food at Eco Practicum / Exploring all things food at Eco Practicum
By/Par Lesia Kinach As an environmental geography major, I am always looking for ways to connect what I’ve learned in my courses to current relevant issues. I am especially interested in food and agriculture, and earlier this summer I had the opportunity to go behind the scenes and to see what it … [Read more...]
Canadian Ark of Taste Update / L’Arche du Goût
By / Par Laura Buckley The Ark of Taste has been highlighted as a priority for Slow Food International and will play a large role at the next Terra Madre in October, 2014. There are currently 1,200 items on the international ark and the push is on to make it to 10,000. Canada now has 17 items, … [Read more...]
From the Farm / De la ferme
By / Par Jerry Kitt The time has come for the laying hens to give up laying eggs in the chicken coop. “Every time I lay an egg, someone steals it!” (That someone would be me). The goal of the hens is not to provide nutrition for the humans but to start a new family. To do so they must lay an egg … [Read more...]
Slow Bacon: Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands Convivium
By / Par Brooke Fader, Slow Food Vancouver Island Photo credit/Crédits photo: Will Reiher Gathered under the towering fir trees and nestled against the coast, we celebrated the return of a pure Tamworth breeding pair with a pig roast at Still Meadow Farm in Metchosin on Southern Vancouver … [Read more...]
A SLOW FISH CANADA MESSAGE TO CONVIVIA / UN MESSAGE DE SLOW FISH CANADA À TOUS LES CONVIVIA
Dear Canadian Convivia, This October 2013 will be Slow Fish Canada month! We hope all of you will help celebrate Canada’s rich and diverse fishing heritage. From coast to coast, in convivia and fishing communities, events will encourage people to become more engaged with the seafood they … [Read more...]
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