Love really great food? Join us in forming Slow Food Northumberland…

January 13, 2010 by Louise Livingstone

Along with several local food producers, B & B establishments, restaurants, bakeries, distributors, chefs, academics and all those who work for responsible and sustainable food production, Wholearth Farmstudio would like to invite you to help us form a new Slow Food convivium (chapter) for Northumberland County.

Our farm raises heritage breed livestock and heirloom varieties of vegetables, many of which are on the Slow Food Ark of Taste List, and we are keen to grow, support, learn, educate, share, feast, enjoy, identify, protect and celebrate food traditions with our local community. Join us!

You are invited to Come join us Monday, January 18th at 6:15 pm at Hastings House Bed and Breakfast, 109 Front St West, Hastings, Ontario, where catering manager and Chef Ursula Fugger will be hosting this exciting meeting for the area.

Guest speaker Rebecca Leheup–Bucknell, Executive Director of the Ontario Culinary Tourism Association (OCTA) and Slow Food Canada Secretary, will explain a brief history of the Slow Food organization founded by Carlo Petrini, and discuss the steps involved in developing a Northumberland County convivium.

Please RSVP via email or call me at (705) 696-2556 and let me know if you are joining us! Hope so....should be fun,

Montana Jones Wholearth Farmstudio RR#2 Hastings Ontario Canada K0L 1Y0 Tel: 705 696 2556 Email: farm [at] wholearth [dot] com