Slow Food Asheville is a proud supporter of BEe Healing Apiary and The Center for Honeybee Research.  We are currently working on programs with both organizations to make “natural” bee keeping a nationally and internationally recognized way to raise bees. First Class: What: Natural Beekeeping Class for beginning and advance beekeepers. When: Tuesday, Oct. 25, [...]

Local farmer, Meghan Cole, from Harvest Table Farm has lost her volunteer farm hands this season and still has a lot of work ahead of her.  Many hands makes for easy work, and forming a one day crop mob, or volunteering your time one day a week could help Meghan out a lot. If anyone [...]

The Appalachian Foods Storybank project, led by the Heritage Foods Committee of Slow Food Asheville will have a “Storybooth” at the Mountain State Fair this year.  We are seeking any and all volunteers interested in regional foods or Appalachian history to aid the “Storybooth” this September. Come collect regional food stories while learning how to [...]

Watch a news clip of our FEAST program, developed by Kate Justen and Cathy Cleary, here: FEAST news clip To find out more about FEAST or how you can volunteer/sponsor, go to our ‘projects’ tab and click ‘FEAST’

Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment….food that is good for those who eat it, for the planet, and for the [...]

http://www.farmersfilm.com/ This is the link to a new filming project being done locally by John and Cinnamon Kennedy.  Below is the Black Mountain News Article which tells all about John, Cinnamon, and their project. Local farms to be subject of Black Mountain filmmakers  By Staff Reports Two local filmmakers are using the subject of small [...]

The Appalachian Foods Storybank, a program of Slow Food Asheville (information below), would like to extend an invitation to a one-time, half day oral history training on Thursday, June 23rd from 12:00 to 5:00 PM.  This workshop is intended to be the preliminary training for volunteers working with the AFS, however the material covered will [...]

Don’t forget to buy your buttons for farm tour.  You can view the ASAP website to find out where to purchase buttons, and see a map of the farms.  Fill up the car with your family and friends, and head out to visit your regions’ farmers for the weekend!

@ AC Reynolds High Minitorium Join Slow Food UNCA & Slow Food Asheville, in collaboration with, Mountain Voices Alliance, Friends of Honeybees, and the WNC Honeybee Research Center for an essential viewing of this documentary. We are asking for a $5 donation to view the film, which will help fund the WNC Honeybee Research Center, [...]

The following schools received funding to purchase seeds, tools, equipment to help get their school gardens ready for the spring. All funds came from the events you attended and the generous donations you made! Weaverville Elementary School Evergreen Community Charter School Claxton Elementary School The New Classical Academy Asheville Catholic Hot Springs Elementary School.