Events

Find current and future Slow Food events below and an archive of past events here.  Non Slow Food events and announcements are on the Announcements page, and reference information can be found on the Links page.  

Event fees cover the cost of the event and provide support for our programs, such as Farmers Market cooking demonstrations. In 2010, we sponsored delegates to the international Slow Food event, Terra Madre in Torino, Italy.

April-May, 2012: GRuB's Kitchen Garden Project


Slow Food Greater Olympia is well on the way to creating new gardens to serve low income families in our area through the GRuB's Dig Deep effort. You can help in two ways:

Garden build, Sunday May 6, anytime between 11 am and 4 pm: Volunteers will build fencing & lots of beds for the Friendly Grove Head Start (2505 Friendly Grove Road Northeast). If you are interested in helping for a few hours (don't have to be there the whole time) contact Celeste at  CrosstownFarms@Yahoo.com, or 360-339-3627. Bring gloves, water, hat, sunscreen and be ready to have fun working together to create a brand new Head Start garden. This is our main Slow Food volunteer project for this year, so don't miss out!

Send your check: Thanks to our members who have generously contributed $350 already to this project! Those $ are matched by funds raised last year. In addition a member has put up additional funding to match the second $500 we raise. You can't beat that - supporting gardens for local low-income families and having your contribution doubled. Please send a check or money order (made payable to "GRuB") to Celeste Wade, 1307 Gemini St SE, Lacey, WA 98503 (your contribution is tax deductable).

There will be a season end celebration and potluck on May 19th at the GRuB farmhouse from 11-2.

May 20, 2012: Book Discussion and Potluck
 

When:  Sunday, May 20, 2012  5:30 to 8:30 pm
Where: Home of Emily Ray:  2622 Buker St. SE, Olympia, WA 98501 
What:  WHITE BREAD, A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf, tells the story of America’s one-hundred-year-long love/hate relationship with the store bought loaf of white bread. It is by Aaron Bobrow-Strain, a Whitman College faculty member, and was released just this March by Beacon Press. (Copies are or will soon be available at the Timberland Library and Orca, as well as through ebooks.)

Bobrow-Strain's book gives us plenty to consider, including his belief that the debate over what is "good" food touches on deeper issues of class differences, institutional racism, and ethnocentrism. 

RSVP: Email Emily Ray, or call 943-6199. Space is limited.