November News & Virtual Events
Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto
Terra Madre events are still happening! Last month, Slow Food’s Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto went virtual, offering classes, panel discussions, recipes and more! Many of the virtual events are FREE, and anyone can register.
Blue Watermelon Project
Blue Watermelon Project and our volunteers have been hard at work preparing and delivering Chef in the Garden kits for students across Arizona—an integral part of their Chef in the Garden/Pantry series. The goal is to work with schools every month to deliver kits to students packed with different recipes, planting resources, cooking ingredients, and food resources. BWP works with nine different schools from Phoenix to the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community, and determines their needs for different grades. BWP focuses on half of the schools each month, alternating between two groups, which allows school partners to receive kits every other month, focusing on new ingredients and curriculums each time. For November, BWP delivered roughly 150 kits and will send 150 more in December.
In November it’s all about chickpeas! Students in 4th and 5th grade get to watch virtual videos, produced by BWP, in their classes and learn how to plant chickpea seeds, create chickpea pancakes and understand how to integrate chickpeas into their diet.
These efforts are all made possible by the Neighborhood Grant from Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation.
Gather Film Screening
Slow Food Phoenix is proud to partner with Arizona State University’s Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems to present a FREE screening of the film GATHER. Join us in the virtual screening on November 19th at 5:30 PM, and stay after for a discussion about the importance and wisdom of Indigenous foodways, with panelists Melissa Nelson and Kathleen Merrigan, from ASU, and Cristal Franco, a Slow Food Phoenix Board member.
RSVP to our Facebook Event Page for updates and registration information regarding our post-screening panel discussion.
