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Blog goddess: Rebecca Sullivan
This week, one of the biggest most influential food events will be taking place in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend; Slow Food Nation (29 Aug-1 Sep). Here, our girl on the ground talks sustainability US-style.
Slow Food Nation (aka Slow Food in the USA’s) chance to show the rest of the world that the US is not all hamburgers and French fries, but a country full of diversity and incredible fresh, healthy and more importantly delicious produce all grown, reared, treated and prepared in a good, clean and fair way. It’s an event not only for the farmer’s but for the people, all people. We all eat and if we all ate the way Slow Food encourages us to, our future would be a hell of a lot more sustainable.
The event kicked off recently in a rather get your hands grubby kind of way, when hundreds of volunteers gathered to plant a victory garden in front of San Francisco’s city hall, to the empowering words of Mayor Gavin Newsom promising this would not be the last. Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war ...
The victory garden (a historical memoir of America gone by) was the first one planted since 1943 in the city. It was planted from scratch under the watchful eye of urban farmer John Bella, with the intention of showing food can be grown in an urban areas and with the benefit of helping feed the city’s homeless.
Since it’s planting weeks ago now, harvest has happened many a time and instead of it being vandalised, slept in and stolen like first thought, the city’s homeless have taken quite a shine to it and quite literally guard it with their lives.
Often when you arrive early morning they are out in force with the volunteers, watering, pruning and sometimes singing to the plants... Quite a tearful sight indeed!
How could it be America without the patriotism after all… but it’s not that painful George Bush type patriotism that makes you want to get as far away from the US as possible, it’s the type that makes you want to stay here and be part of it, no matter your nationality. You want to jump in and plant a potato or pick a tomato and that’s exactly what happened… I have turned into an obsessive urban farmer.
Slow Food NationCivic Center & Fort Mason
San Francisco, USA
Aug 29 - Sep 1 2008