Membership
Join Us! Become a member of Slow Food USA and add your voice to ours. Annual membership includes:
- A personal Slow Food USA membership card
- Seven issues of the magazine, Slow
- Five issues of the newsletter, The Snail
- The right to attend all events organized by the Slow Food movement around the world
- Discounts on all Slow Food publications and merchandise
Once you become a member of Slow Food USA you can join a local convivium of your choice.
http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/join_us/
Read more about Slow Food, its origins and principles,
http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/slow_food/
Upcoming Events
News
A deliciously Slow dinner at High Cotton Restaurant in Greenville
Planned for November, 2010 with Ark of Taste products from Local Farms.
Slow Food Upstate is featured on One Cause, a web site that allows you to shop on line and your selected merchants will contribute a percentage of the sale to Slow Food Upstate. Go to www.onecause.com and become a member, then select Slow Food Upstate as your Cause to support. Add the One Cause browser tab to your computer and select your merchants through the One Cause web site. One Cause will then send Slow Food Upstate the contributions. You must however, access the merchant through the One Cause web site to participate.
These contributions will help further the Slow Food Upstate missions in our area.
Tuesday Local Farmers' Market
Check out the Tuesday Local Farmers’ Market, a weekly farmers’ market at Whole Foods Market in Greenville! Whether you’re on the way home from work, looking for some great veggies for dinner, or interested in showing your kids where their food is coming from, this is the place to be this season on Tuesday afternoons!
Featuring products from a dozen local Upstate growers and producers, the market takes place every Tuesday 3pm – 7pm in the parking lot of Whole Foods Market at 1140 Woodruff Rd (May - October). All sales go directly to the farmers and producers. Cash or check only. Rain or shine.
Participating farmers and producers include:
Bio-Way Farm, Ware Shoals, SC – Eleanor Crescenzi
Firstfruits Farm, Greenville, SC - Janice Woodard
Iszy’s Heirlooms, Liberty, SC – Jeff Isbell
Native Meats, Woodruff, SC – Rollie Knoke
Split Creek Farm, Anderson, SC – Evin Evans
Spurgeon Farms, Taylors, SC – Alton and Dodi Spurgeon
Tail Waggerz Canine Confections & Barkery, Greenville, SC – Cathleen Christie
Upstate Locally Grown, Honea Path, SC – Donna Putney
Billy's Boer Meat Goat Farm, Westminster, SC - Jim, Gaylene and Billy Carson
Booth with a Cause will feature a different local non-profit organization on the first Tuesday of each month.
Newest Members
Board Members
Jennifer Sparks, Convivium Leader
Janette Wesley, Convivium Secretary
Ann Marshall, Convivium Treasurer
Debbie Cooke
Tom and Linda Trantham
Marnie Record
Renato Vicario
