Local Projects

Milwaukee Local Food and Farmer Open House 2011

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

Farm Fresh Atlas

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 2011 Atlas. More

Renewing America's Food Traditions with Local Biodiversity

The Milwaukee Apple - just one of hundreds of endangered fruits that have disappeared from our plates and have been replaced by fewer than a dozen commercial varieties. Slow Food WISE joins the handful of orchardists and chefs who are bringing antique apples back to our tables by adopting the Milwaukee Apple. Read more about our efforts and how you can join us

The mission of the Slow Food WISE Heritage Turkey Project is to promote the restoration of heritage breed turkeys within our regional watershed by pairing farmers with eaters. Here's a partial list of farms offering Heritage turkeys this year.

“300,000 vegetable varieties have become extinct over the last century" -Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity

Foods on the Ark of Taste are just a small percentage of the thousands of foods at risk of disappearing. By promoting them, we ensure they remain a part of our foodways.

Eat It to Save It

Support farmers who grow heirloom vegetables from the Ark of Taste! Slow Food WISE takes pride in growers in our region who are Renewing America's Food Traditions. Pinehold Gardens, Afterglow Farm, Hedgerow Farms, and Earth Harvest Farms are run by a growing number of area farmers devoted to safeguarding our food heritage. To search for more farmers and producers offering products that have been boarded on the Ark of Taste, search Local Harvest.

Grow It to Save It

Whether in a front yard, a community garden plot, a school garden, in a pot or in your backyard; by growing endangered foods you can help save these foods from extinction. Consider planting these Ark of Taste vegetables that may be well suited for growing in Wisconsin

 

National Projects

Campaigns

The Slow Food USA network works together on campaigns to create change locally and to push for national changes to the policies and practices that shape our food system. Learn More.

Terra Madre

Terra Madre is a growing international network of more than 7,000 food producers, cooks, educators and youth from 150 countries, including over 1,000 delegates from the U.S. united by a common goal of global sustainability in food. Learn More.

Children and Food

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.