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Renewing America's Food Traditions

These Events are Free and we hope you will atttend and show your support

Cornbread Butterbeans and You Across the Table!
Appalachian Food Traditions Pot-luck
Thursday, February 25th, 6:30pm

Gary Paul Nabhan, founder of Slow Food's Renewing America's Food Traditions
(RAFT), will join us for an Appalachian supper at Warren Wilson College! We have a rich history of food in this area. Pork dishes, hearty bean soups, greens cooked to silky perfection, and corn pone are perfect winter food. Please bring a down home dish to share. Bring some wine or hard cider to share if you like. We will be in the Ransom Fellowship Hall on the upper level. Please see this link to the campus map for more detailed directions http://www.warren-wilson.edu/info/campus_map.php.

Forgotten Fruits Recovery Challenge to Appalachian Communities

Renewing America’s Food Traditions, Friday, February 26, 7:30 PM Canon Lounge in Gladfelter Building. The Renewing America's Food Traditions (RAFT) Alliance is advancing the issue of how food diversity is key to regional food security, especially in a time of rapid climate change. It inspires and supports "foodshed communities" to recover their endangered heritage foods and return them to fields, streams, orchards, restaurants and tables. Our continent-wide analysis has documented that Appalachia is the most biodiverse foodshed or ecoregion in North America, but that many of its culinary treasures are increasingly endangered due to land use changes and climate change. RAFT is launching a Forgotten Fruits Recovery Challenge to Appalachian communities to find, plant, restore markets and culinary uses for nearly 100 heirloom apples unique to the region. Success stories involving students and community members will be highlighted.

What You Can Do Bring Endangered Heritage Foods Back to Your Communities, Fields, Streams, Orchards and Tables

Workshop is Saturday, Feb. 27th from 9:45-11:30 in the Upper Fellowship Hall. We will be in the Ransom Fellowship Hall on the upper level. Please see this link to the campus map for more detailed directions http://www.warren-wilson.edu/info/campus_map.php.

Gary Paul Nabhan, facilitator-founder, Renewing America's Food Traditions
(RAFT), with Ben Watson, Slow Food Biodiversity Committee Chair and Kanin
Routson, Southwest Regis-Tree

Over three thousand food plants and animals unique to North America are
currently threatened and endangered, and at risk of falling from our
tables for good, as the passenger pigeon has already done. Whether wild or cultivated,
these heritage foods can be recovered through collaborative conservation
efforts that engage local citizens and student groups, restorationists and
farmers, chefs and conservation biologists. This discussion will focus on
tangible actions you can take to identify, locate and recover the foods
at risk in Appalachia--the most biodiverse foodshed remaining in North America.
We will outline the adopt-a-food approach of identifying what rarities still occur in
your locality, "rafting" them over to the Slow Food Ark of Taste, and
beginning recovery of their habitats, populatiions and culinary uses.

Comfort Foods: Love, Memories, and Stories
Sunday, March 14, 6 pm at the Hawk and Ivy B&B

Foods from the heart. Bring your own favorite comfort dish, its story and the recipe. This will be great fun as we eat and share tale. We will supply dishes, utensils, tea/cafe, and a little wine. Space is very limited. Please call or email to reserve. Cost: $10 a person. Call Eve or James Davis 828-626-3486; email:  info@hawkandivy.com.

 
Directions: Coming from the south, east or west  toward Asheville, take 1_240. Turn north on 19/23 North, now called I-26 W, at Exit 4A, toward Weaverville. Go 12 miles to the Jupiter/Barnardsville Exit. Exit 15. Turn right and continue 6.5t miles to our house #133 on the right, green house with a red roof. From the north take I-26 to Exit 15, turn left and continue 6.5 mi. to #133 on the right. Park in the field to the left, across the street from the Hawk and Ivy.

Dear friends,

More than 31 million children participate in the National School Lunch Program. Many consume as many as half their daily calories at school. Helping schools serve real food may be the most promising way to end child obesity - but it simply can't happen unless Congress invests in healthier food in the upcoming Child Nutrition Act.

Will you send an email to your legislators to help schools serve real food?

As an organization, Slow Food gets involved in policy when we see big problems with America's food system that can only be solved if citizens speak up. Teaching children to make good food choices will require hard work from parents, schools, non-profits, the private sector and government. But an enormously important step is to ensure that the National School Lunch Program isn't undermining those efforts, and is instead serving kids the healthy food they need to grow up into able, productive adults.

On a conference call this week, USDA Secretary Vilsack said that the most important thing citizens can do to get healthier food into their local schools is to urge Congress to pass a strong Child Nutrition Act. This issue has broad public support, he said, but it isn't appearing in the national media - so we need to make sure Congress gets the message.

That's where you come in. Now that Michelle Obama is leading the charge, Congress will begin updating the Child Nutrition Act this month. If legislators hear support from citizens back home, they'll have the opportunity to invest in healthier food, strengthen nutrition standards, and equip schools to buy local and cook meals from scratch.

So please take a minute to email your legislators today.

Thank you, Gordon Jenkins - Advocacy Manager - Slow Food USA

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Want to see the  Eat-In Pictures? Over 160 people of all ages enjoyed each others company as they discussed ways to make sure all children enjoy a healthy lunch at their schools. http://www.slowfoodasheville.org/images/index.htm

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