Slow Food Vancouver and the Ark of Taste

Conserving the many species of plants and animals that we use for food is not just a good idea. It may be the key to preventing hunger.

The Irish potato famine is a devastating example of what can happen when only one variety of a plant is cultivated. Because the widely planted potato variety was susceptible to the blight caused by Phytophthora infestans, crops failed on a large scale and one in eight Irish people died of starvation over a period of three years.

One way to avoid such disasters is to preserve as many varieties of a species as we can, so we will always have a large gene pool to draw on. In conditions where one variety can

Celebrating the spot prawn

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Spot prawn season starts in May and lasts about 80 days so enjoy them while they

Blessing of the Land Feast

A sincere thank you to the UBC Aboriginal Intergenerational Garden for the invitation to yesterday

Press Release: Slow Food Toronto calls for action on genetically engineered alfalfa

Protecting the biodiversity of our shared agricultural heritage by opposing its contamination from genetically engineered (GE) crops is central to Slow Food