Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
I co-launched and co-developed a cooperative venture of seven U.S. environmental and cultural organizations* to document North American agricultural biodiversity, provide technical assistance to 100+ ranchers and farmers, and establish progressive sales campaigns and commercial supply chain partnerships in 40+ states which resulted in the market recovery of 640 fruits vegetables and livestock breeds.
We also published a book of portraits of North America’s 100 most iconic and most endangered foods and developed six U.S. Presidia projects — which sustain quality food production at risk of extinction, protect unique regions and ecosystems, recover traditional processing methods, and safeguard “native” breeds and local plant varieties.
Our work was featured on NPR, The New York Times, Saveur magazine and local and regional press.
*Native Seeds/SEARCH, Seed Savers Exchange, The Livestock Conservancy, Chefs Collaborative, Center for Sustainable Environments, Cultural Conservancy, SlowFoodUSA
image via Fondazione Slow Food per la Biodiversità
Buy Wild Rice (Zizania aquatica) from America’s Great Lakes to Save It and to Enjoy It:
- Native Harvest Ojibwe Products — a subdivision of White Earth Land Recovery Project
- Honor the Earth — Pipeline Free Harvests
