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Following on from the recent AGM, new events are now ready for you to sign up to, including a Wine Tasting and another outing for the Taste Adventure. We need your help to choose the dates for this summer's Tour of rural Poland, so please take a look and fill in the form if you're interested in joining the trip. Keep watching the website for updates on other events too.
You may also find Oxford Gastronomica's Tasting Culture sessions of interest.
Should you have any ideas, any causes you want us to defend and support, please click on the link!: leader@slowfood-oxon.org.uk
Next event
- Sat 4th Sep
What is Slow Food Oxon?
We are one of nearly 1,000 Convivia (local chapters) of Slow Food International, which was founded in 1986 in Italy. Slow Food has grown into an international network with members and convivia all over the world.
Harvest Lunch
Venue: Penny Reid's Down Barn Farm on Sparsholt Down, Wantage, OX12 0XD
Join us to try Penny's organic ham with a glass of cider, salads and farmhouse breads. Bring a dessert of your liking. Penny will tell us about her farm and animals in the beautiful setting of her garden, overlooking the wheat field.
The Taste Adventure
"The Taste Adventure" interactive play for children and their parents at Oxfordshire County & Thame Show. We need 12 volunteers for the day. Every person will get a free ticket for 1/2 day volunteering at the SF stand, orientation will be offered the week before the show.
Please add a note to your sign-up saying whether you'd prefer to cover the morning slot (9am to 1:30pm) or the afternoon slot (1:30pm to 6pm).
Slow Food Tour to Rural Poland
Summer 2010
We have a fantastic occasion to spend five and a half days in rural Poland this summer at the Invitation of the International Centre for the Protection of Polish Countryside (ICPPC).
Please have a look at the Programme, especially designed for us, it is very “slow food”. To say a few words about the host, ICPPC is the environmental “Nobel Prize” winner “for fighting for the survival of family farms in Poland” (2002). The Goldman Environmental Prize is given annually to grassroots environmental heroes and includes a no-strings-attached award of $125,000. As the largest award of its kind, it has been called the "Nobel Prize for the Environment”.
So, you can go and see it for yourselves: family farmhouses, cheese making, preserving, cow milking and also meet with Polish Slow Food members.
In order for our friends at ICPPC to organise the tour properly, we need to reach a decision on the date and numbers by end of March, latest.
