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Latest Past Events

The Golden Glass

San Francisco, CA

Golden Glass is the annual fundraiser for Slow Food San Francisco. Proceeds will benefit key Slow Food San Francisco initiatives, including the School Gardens Initiative and Slow Food USA’s Ark of Taste program. Celebrate the efforts of over 100 wine producers who strive to protect, nurture, and revive the indigenous and classic varieties of their regions. Slow Food will select the […]

PlacerGROWN Food and Farm Conference

Lincoln, CA

Each February, PlacerGROWN and the UC Davis Extension co-host an annual Food and Farm Conference – an exciting day of food, fun and workshops on food, farming, agriculture and local sustainability! The Conference typically features 25-30 workshops, with lunch prepared by the Lincoln Future Farmers of America (FFA), and a trade show. The opportunity to […]

Labor Across the Food System

Santa Cruz, CA

FOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy, among them agricultural field work, food processing, food distribution, and restaurants of all kinds. The new food localism privileges questions of “where food […]