2024

Terra Madre 2024 Talk-Back and Annual Potluck: Join us for a special event that bridges our local community with the global network of Slow Food International. We'll be joined by Slow Food members who attended Terra Madre to share their experiences in a lively talk-back session.

Following the discussion, we'll break bread together at our annual potluck, themed “Celebrating Ark of Taste Foods.” Each dish will feature an ingredient from the Ark of Taste—a collection of foods that are at risk of disappearing—and participants will have the chance to share the story behind their chosen dish.

Sheep Is Life: Fundraising Campaign: Bringing Navajo Lifeways to Terra Madre 2024

Documentary Screening: “We Are All Plastic People Now” at Marston Exploration Theater - 781 S Terrace Rd, Tempe AZ 85281

2023

Local First’s Fall Festival
Cookbook Exchange at Margaret T. Hance Park

Happy Hour, Arizona Wilderness 
Arizona Wilderness - 201 E. Roosevelt Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Slow Food Phoenix and Blue Watermelon Project’s Watering Wisdom
Accelerated Learning Center - 4827 N Country Club, Scottsdale, AZ 85256

2022

"Feeding Communities, Changing the Narrative" - Film Screenings and Discussion by Slow Food Live

The Good Food films — “Food as Medicine” and “Addressing Inequity In Arizona’s Local Food System” — provide a snapshot into the food justice movement that is not only happening in Arizona but across the country. Meet the next generation of farmers, healers, and ranchers who have entered the space to create a more localized food system that provides healthy, fresh, culturally appropriate food to their communities and are fighting to eliminate decades of food injustice.

Following the two fifteen-minute screenings, there will be a discussion with film producers and those featured in each documentary.

Speakers include:

• Gabriel Cruz Luna is a fourth-generation farmer at Cruz Farm. He shares his journey and experience of farming in Arizona and how the landscape has changed over the years. 

• The Stewart family of Southwest BlackRanchers is in its second year as a new farm. Learn about their challenges and successes as they strive to make a difference in their community by bringing much-needed diversity into the farming and ranching industry.

• Chef Maria Parra Cano of Sana Sana Foods talks about food that can be naturally found in our neighborhoods and in the desert that possesses medicinal and healing qualities, which can heal us from ailments caused by the conventional diet. 

• Twila Cassadore, a food educator from the San Carlos Apache Nation, shares the healing journey of foraging and finding food in the wild.

  This Slow Food Live event is produced by Slow Food USA and Good Food Finder, a project of Local First AZ. Generous support of this program comes from The Global Futures Lab: Food Sovereignty and Global Syndemic Project and the Environmental Humanities Initiative, based at Arizona State University