Slow Food

Hi friends,

Just wanted to let you know about Slow Food St Louis. This is the local chapter for the international movement. Their link is on the sidebar to the right and I highly encourage you to check them out. Why? Because you eat food! And hopefully you like it healthy and fresh, responsibly grown. AND hopefully you care about the people who grow it, because they're good folks who deserve our spending dollars (instead of McDonald's). I joined their yahoo! groups mailing list, and I attended the monthly meeting last night. Slow Food has creative, dynamic people from the area contributing a lot of knowledge, passion and energy. Be sure to take a look at their events (Convivial Pursuit Trivia Night! The Art of Food!! Feast in the Fields!!!).

Since our meeting was at Schlafly Bottlewords, I'm also reminded that there is a backyard gardening workshop being offered at Schlafly on Mar. 29. I'm going and I think Donna's going to go, so be sure to sign up if you're interested. We're thinking of making a summer vegetable swap an additional component of the Crap Swap. If each of us grows one, two or three veggie plants, we can share the work AND the harvest. Let me know if you're interested in that, too.

Ciao bellas.