By Christina Allain, board of directors member. Summit Activities More than 70 Farmers, fishermen, chefs, academics and food activists from all across Canada gathered in Invermere, British Columbia, from April 6-10th for the 11th annual Slow Food Canada Summit. In … [Read more...]
Feeding the Future: Slow Food Canada National Meeting 2016
Slow Food in Canada’s National Executive is thrilled to announce that our 2016 National Meeting will be hosted by Slow Food Columbia Valley in Invermere, British Columbia April 6- 10. Nestled in the Purcell Mountains on beautiful Lake Windermere with ranchlands, farms and artisanal food … [Read more...]
Indigenous Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
By the Okanagan Nation Alliance Since 1996 and years before that, the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA), under the leadership of the Chiefs Executive Council (CEC), has dedicated their tribal efforts to re-establish their role as Indigenous Peoples by reintroducing ntytyix (sockeye salmon) … [Read more...]
A Struggle on Many Fronts
By Kate Mann, Slow Food International (original post here) Taking a pen and a piece of paper, Pauline Terbasket begins to sketch a map of the area at the Canadian-USA border, from the Columbia River estuary in Portland to the Okanagan Sub Basin and the far reaches of the headwaters in British … [Read more...]
Okanagan Sockeye Salmon & Savignac Tomato enter the Ark of Taste
Two products recently made their way on the Canadian Ark of Taste which reflects Canada’s vast, diverse landscape of peoples and foods. First up, the Okanagan Nation sockeye salmon: Throughout generations, it has been the mainstay for the food and trading traditions between First Nations bands … [Read more...]