Slow Food in Schools National Program and in the Upstate
Connecting young people with their food is the most important step we can take to ensure a future full of good, clean, and fair food. Slow Food nurtures this future through our Slow Food in Schools program. Working with our chapters across the country, our Garden to Table projects provide meaningful, hands-on food experiences and education to K-12 students.
Slow Food in Schools supports our local projects in creating meaningful relationships between youth and food. By placing emphasis on hands-on experiences, community interaction, and the pleasures of the table, Slow Food in Schools helps to strengthen the food communities of tomorrow by engaging youth today.
Slow Food USA offers project support through our annual Micro-Grant Awards, the Slow Food in Schools Project Leader's Conference, kitchen and garden tools supplied by OXO, and individual technical and professional support for leaders.
How to Start a Slow Food in Schools Project
Slow Food USA has developed general guidelines for establishing Slow Food in Schools projects. This downloadable document provides a step-by-step guide to starting a project in your community as well as information on types of projects, model Slow Food in Schools projects, funding guidelines, and numerous informational resources.
Slow Food on Campus
Slow Food on Campus is a network of Slow Food chapters at colleges and universities across the country. Run by student members, Slow Food on Campus chapters engage their community and the next generation of Slow Food leaders in creating a good, clean, and fair food system.
To keep up with Slow Food on Campus, opportunities for students, interesting articles, and Slow Food on Campus chapters across the country, check out the Slow Food on Campus blog at http://slowfoodoncampus.wordpress.com/. If you've got news from your area you would like to see posted on the blog, please contact Julia Middleton, Slow Food Youth Programs Assistant at julia@slowfoodusa.org.
If you are a student interested in starting a Slow Food chapter at your school, please download the guidelines and email youth@slowfoodusa.org to get started.
Furman University Organic Garden
The Furman Organic Garden is a student managed campus garden and market that provides the Furman and larger community with an environment in which students, faculty, and staff can study, research, and practice small-scale food production. The garden will strengthen physical, mental, and spiritual connections to the land through the practice of sustainable, organic agriculture. Furman participates in the National Farm to School Program. These programs connect schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing health and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime, and supporting local small farmers.
3300 Poinsett Hwy
Greenville, SC 29613
James Wilkins
sustainability@furman.edu
864-294-2076
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
