Celebrate: Slow Food’s 20th Anniversary and Terra Madre Day

This Thursday, December 10th, marks Slow Food’s 20th Anniversary and a worldwide celebration of “eating locally” with Terra Madre Day. The purpose of the day is to celebrate the local food movement in your community – and in communities across the globe – and to raise awareness of the importance of “eating locally” . You can participate in an endless number of ways…from a celebratory picnic or dinner with your family, to planning an excursion to a farm or nearby food producer to better understand where your food comes from, to joining in one of the local Terra Madre Gatherings happening throughout the world.

According to my Slow Food newsletter, “There are already 820 events registered around the world: a wide range of actions as diverse and unique as the communities holding them, from a shared dinner under an elephant at the Toulouse Natural History Museum in France, to a community folk festival in Bangladesh, an event linking chefs with artisan farmers in Kenya, and a fish canning party in the USA. The goal is to reach 1,000 Terra Madre Day events around the world. Events can be held any time on or around December 10.”

While the celebrations are intended to encourage and support sustainable food from wherever you live, Terra Madre Day also celebrates the right of all communities to maintain and build:

•    Access to good, clean and fair food
•    Agricultural and food biodiversity
•    Small-scale food production
•    Food sovereignty
•    Language, cultural and traditional knowledge
•    Environmentally responsible food production
•    Fair and sustainable trade

So participate in some way and show everyone how important “eating locally” is to you and for our planet!

*Image Courtesy of Slow Food.

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