Local Projects

Milwaukee Local Food and Farmer Open House 2010

As members of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm, participants share in a farm's products for a season. Weekly boxes are delivered to convenient neighborhood drop-off sites. More

Farmer Chef Connection

The Farmer Chef Connection helps to create and sustain relationships between local farmers and buyers, providing direct meeting and purchasing opportunities. More

The Farm Fresh Atlas of Southeast Wisconsin is a free fold-out map of Milwaukee area farms, including a guide to farmer's markets and food related businesses. It is published annually in late spring. Click here to download the 2008 Atlas. More

Renewing America's Food Traditions

As an alliance of food, farming, and environmental and culinary advocates, RAFT partners have joined together to identify, restore and celebrate America's biologically and culturally diverse food traditions through conservation, education, promotion and regional networking. RAFT initiatives bring food producers, chefs, and consumerstogether to develope and promote conservation strategies, sustainable food production and awarness of the endangered foods and food traditions of the United States.

Click here http://foodbiodiversity.yolasite.com/ to learn more about food biodiversity in our region and Slow Food Wise's Antique Apple, Ark of Taste Vegetable, and Heritage Animal Projects and the local farmers and producers dedicated to restoring our food heritage.

National Projects

Slow Food Nation

The inaugural Slow Food Nation, August 29th - September 1, 2008, was a 4 day expostion and celebration of food in San Francisco. Its mission was to change the way America eats through debates, lectures, tastings and demonstrations. Slow Food Nation highlighted the life-enhancing benefits of food that is good, clean and fair.

Terra Madre

Terra Madre is a growing international network of more than 9,000 food producers, cooks, educators and youth working towards increasing small-scale, traditional, and sustainable food production. The Terra Madre conference gathers the network on even numbered years in Turin, Italy to partake in dialogue andechange about the production and consumption of food that is good, clean and fair.

Slow Food in Schools

Slow Food in School's "Garden to Table" projects range from after-school cooking classes to farm tours to schoolyard gardens. We currently have more than 30 gardens-to-table projects around the country. "Slow Food on Campus" is a network of Campus-Chapters run by college and university students across the country and is the working arm of Slow Food USA in the college community addressing food system and food justice issues.

The Ark of Taste and Presidia

The Slow Food Ark of Taste and Presidia programs identify high quality traditional foods in danger of extinction and promote them in the marketplace. Through partnerships with farmers, fishers, breeders, and artisans, these projects also offer promotional and technical assistance to guarantee their survival.