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Sunday, 29 October 2006

Fickle Creek Farm reports from Terra Madre in Torino

How wonderful to come from the Piedmont of North Carolina to La Piemonte da Italia!!!

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Saturday, 28 October 2006

Farmers’ Markets, Collective Incrementalism, and a Wild Wiki Wonderland

(adapted from a November 27th Terra Madre 2006 presentation on “the power of co-producers�)

We took a long time getting ourselves into this food mess, and it’s going to take a long time getting out. Transformational change just ain’t gonna happen, no matter how many Terra Madres we put on, so it’s up to incremental change—long, slow, hard slogging—to make things right. Don’t get me wrong, though, without Terra Madre, and the other banner-raising, relationship-making, soul-inspiring events like it, the incremental change wouldn’t have a rallying cry to keep it going forward.

So what does this have to do with farmers’ markets and wikis? Oh, everything, I’d say.

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Friday, 13 October 2006

Everything Under the Sun Farm ~ A member of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Food Community

Few farmers cultivate as close to “everything under the sunâ€? as does Bill Crepps - stone fruits, Asian vegetables, roots, brassicas, nuts, persimmons, greens, alliums, nightshades, figs, corn, and hard squash to name some of his crops. Bill’s farm embodies one of the most fundamental principles of sustainable agriculture: diversity. Everything Under the Sun Farm specializes in dried fruits and vegetables, and Bill is interested in connecting with other farmers attending Terra Madre who dry fruit and vegetables.

Bill is a delegate from the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market food community. The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market is operated by the nonprofit Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture and brings together over 80 farms, 30 artisans and purveyors, and thousands of shoppers every week at the historic Ferry Building in San Francisco. Farmers come from throughout California’s diverse growing regions to sell their fruits, vegetables, nuts, meats, cheeses, olive oil, and prepared foods to urban residents. Click here to view a slideshow of the market.

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Tuesday, 19 September 2006

mercati contadini

Come è noto ad alcuni frequentatori di questo blog, ma non abbastanza, 3 impavidi studenti del Master in Food Culture dell’Università di Scienze Gastronomiche stanno realizzando una ricerca sui farmers’ markets.
Con evidente disprezzo del ridicolo, pare che i risultati di queste fatiche saranno presentati a Terra Madre.
In proposito avete già beneficiato della grafomania di Davide Szanto; in attesa della prospettiva californiana di Linda Kay, ecco un punto di vista italiano su quelli che vogliamo chiamare Mercati Contadini, per non cedere una volta di più alla tentazione di fingerci poliglotti.
Ora, se qualcuno mi chiedesse perchè dovrebbe andare a cercarsi un mercato contadino, potrei rispondere tante cose.
Tanto per cominciare, si può guardare in faccia chi ci dà da mangiare, oltre le barbe degli affettatori di lardo di cinta senese e i grembiuli delle raccoglitrici di mele tarantine.
Si può, volendo, assaggiare moltissimo e moltissimo chiacchierare, per farsi spiegare la fatica impossibile di fare una marmellata di frutta snocciolata e tagliata a mano, che se no si rovina, quasi per la sola soddisfazione di poter dire a chiunque e a testa alta “ma la mia è più buona”. O farsi raccontare la vita dei casari che non vedevano l’ora di farlo; o aspettare paziente che un agricoltore venga a dirti “stamattina mi sono svegliato alle 4 e mezzo e ho raccolto queste melanzane”.
Si può semplicemente stare lì a guardarsi in giro, fotografare i pomodori, sentire gli odori, ascoltare di straforo le signore anziane che chiedono quale miele sarà meglio per il mal di gola.
Se poi si è stufi di assaggiare e si vuole fare sul serio certe volte si può mangiare lì, a prezzi più che politici, i piatti fatti con i prodotti del mercato.
Infine ovviamente si può comprare, ma non è obbligatorio. Magari solo una bottiglia di vino, e solo perchè ci piace il cartello sul banco.

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Tuesday, 12 September 2006

The Pacific Northwest: not only beautiful, but delicious too!

The Pacific Northwest has got it going on.

Following the lead of my brave role models/fellow classmates researching Farmers’ Market, I devoted a few mornings of my vacation back home to scoping out FM scene in my home & native land: the great & the beautiful Pacific Northwest. 

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Monday, 11 September 2006

Small Steps

A friend recently asked me, with regard to farmers’ markets, “How do you respond to people when they say, ‘But food at farmers’ markets is so much more expensive than at the grocery store.’ I mean, what do you say to that?”

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Wednesday, 02 August 2006

On the Road to Torino (via Canada and Ireland)

Day One of the University of Gastronomic Sciences/Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity’s farmers’ market research project (from the perspective of one-third of the researchers).

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Monday, 31 July 2006

Souk el tayeb farmers’ market in Lebanon

Souk el tayeb, the first farmers’ market in Beirut and established by Lebanese Slow Food coordinator Kamal Mouzawak, takes place every Saturday in the Solidere neighborhood on the property of real estate company Société Libanaise de Développement et Reconstruction. The private company was created to reconstruct the city’s center after the civil war. 

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Monday, 31 July 2006

Kamal Mouzawak, Slow Food Beirut




San Francisco (USA) convivium leader Carmen Tedesco’s interview of Kamal Mouzawak, convivium leader of Slow Food Beirut (Lebanon). Mouzawak talks about his work with the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, specifically the farmers’ market in Beirut that he organizes, which is the first farmers’ market in Lebanon.

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