Slow Food Northern Arizona

Calendar of Events

October 1, 2011

Solar Cook-Off and Apple Festival

When: Saturday, October 1
9:00 a.m.: solar oven set ups
10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m: apple cider making & canning demonstrations
10:30 a.m.-noon+: spinning demonstrations
11:00 a.m.: trail clean up
11:30-11:50 a.m: Solar oven talk by Lisa Rayner
12:00- 2:00 p.m.: picnic
Where: Buffalo Park Ramada, near the park entrance

Solar cooking is a year-round option in the sunny Southwest. It's also an apple bonanza year!

F-cubed is celebrating with a solar oven and apple harvest picnic!

• If you have a solar cooker, please join us. You can cook an apple-themed dish if you so desire.
• If you don't have a solar cooker, you may bring a potluck dish and join us for lunch.
• The event also features a short and fun trail clean up, apple peeler/slicer & cider-making demonstrations, kids activities, and a solar oven talk by Lisa Rayner.
• Spinners will be have their spinning wheels and hand spindles to demonstrate their craft.

There is a $5 suggested donation to support purchasing equipment for our ZERO WASTE EVENT program, but this is a community event and NO ONE will be turned away for lack of funds!

October 22 , 2011

Annual Member Harvest Potluck

When: Saturday, Oct 22, 4pm
Where: Mountain Meadow Farm, Flagstaff

This year we are featuring two local food producers, Ellen Parish of Flying M Ranch and Gay Chanler of the Slow Food Churro Lamb Presidium. In addition, Laura Chamberlin will speak about her experience at the 2010 Terra Madre in Turin. Ann Marie and Jack deWees will describe the current board's vision for the future direction of SFNAZ, concluding with nominations for new board members. If you have an interest in being part of the leadership for our chapter, now is the time to step up and consider a board position. The roles of treasurer, membership/communications secretary, and events coordinator will be vacant as of October.

This potluck is open to current members, but please bring a guest who would like to learn more about Slow Food - we'd like to grow our membership! And, of course, bring your favorite "good, clean and fair" dish to share.

Please RSVP to info@slowfoodnaz.org no later than October 15.

Fall, 2011

Support Truck Farm 2011

Truck Farm was born in Brooklyn, NY in the spring of 2009, when Ian Cheney set out to plant a vegetable garden in the bed of his grandfather's 1986 Dodge pick-up truck.

The mobile garden project soon grew: Ian and collaborator Curt Ellis (co-creators of "King Corn") took the public art project on the road, exhibiting Truck Farm at 40 schools and on the National Mall in DC.
Their Truck Farm Garden Contest, judged by food celebrities Alice Waters, Michael Pollan and Marion Nestle, inspired 65 student groups to plant creative farms of their own.

Now, the capstone of the Truck Farm project has been competed: the 45-minute documentary film "Truck Farm, was released telling the story of an old Dodge, a new kind of farming, and the future of food in the American city.
In coordination with the release of the film, the Truck Farm has been upgraded to a fleet status of 25 Truck Farmers across the US. Phoenix is proud to be one of them.

Truck Farm Phoenix will hit the road this fall reaching out to schools and youth organizations across the valley teaching kids how fun farming and healthy food can be, engaging them in thinking about where food comes from and getting them excited about growing food themselves. Slow Food USA has partnered to support this project and Slow Food Phoenix is partnering with Truck Farm Phoenix to raise awareness.

If you would like to help by making a donation please visit their Kickstarter campaign:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/truckfarmphoenix/truck-farm-phoenix-a-mobile-urban-agriculture-proj

E-mail, for inquiries on visits: truckfarmphx@gmail.com

Twitter, to get updates on the Phoenix Truck Farm whereabouts: @TruckFarmPHX

National Website, for information on the national fleet and to book a screening: www.truck-farm.com