Slow Food Helsinki - Good Clean and Fair food

Media:

Sveriges Radio reported about an initiative that is putting traditional Sami foods in focus, to transform more Swedish products into Slow Food Presidia products.

21/1/2013

"Målet är att skaffa fram mer produkter inom Slowfood"

Sweden, Sveriges Radio

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On the occasion of the Grüne Woche in Berlin in 2012, visitors had the chance to taste Undredal cheese from the Stølsheimen Dairy in Norway and to learn about its traditional roots.

21/1/2013

"Kvit Undredal populær i Berlin"

Norway, Sogn Avis

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Carlo Petrini says multinationals want to use Africa to make profit at the expense of human life.

10/2012

"Keep GMOs out of Africa"

Kenya, The Star

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The reaction of Prof. Jim Dunwell, a Plant Biotechnologist at University of Reading, UK.

1/2013

"Balance Should Be Maintained on the Issue"

Nigeria, Vanguard

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Danielle Nierenberg and Ellen Gustafson, cofounders of Food Tank: The Food Think Tank give 13 food resolutions for the world in 2013.

31/12/2012

"A New Year's Recipe for Fixing the Food System"

USA, Bloomberg Businessweek

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The Secret Garden project of Slow Food Helsinki

11/6/2012

Finland, What's Up Finland

"A Garden Over Your Head"

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Secret Garden på Kabelfabrikens tak

10/6/2012

Finland, Ny Tid

"Ett litet paradis högt uppe"

here

01/05/2012

United States, Earth911

"Slow Food Movement Plants Gardens in Africa"

“Gardening is a skill that seems to be lost on a large portion of Western society. After all, why should I grow a tomato bush when I can have someone else do it? I’ll just pick one up at the grocery store for 60 cents. But in Africa, food doesn’t come that easy. Economic restraints make eating fresh and healthy a less-than-viable option.”

here

04/04/2012

Mali, L’Essor

"Sécurité alimentaire: La solution des jardins potager"

The Thousand Gardens in Africa as a solution to food security problems affecting local communities in Mali

here

01/05/2012

Finland, Koti Ja Keittiö

"Puhtaan Ruoan Puolesta"

“In favour of pure foods” is the title of an interview with Carlo Petrini in the Finnish Home & Kitchen magazine.

here

22/03/2012

Finland, Hufvudstadsbladet

Slow Food: läckerheter långsamt och lokalt

Carlo Petrini recently visited Finland, where he met with Slow Food members and took part in a series of conferences, including one at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, where he was met with much enthusiasm.

here

16/03/2012

Finland, Ilta Sanomat

Slow Food -liikkeen perustaja Carlo Petrini on Suomessa.

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Events:

ECOFS Finland Oy and Slow Food Helsinki ry are organizing a speakers tour in different locations in Finland supported by Nylands svenska kulturfond.

Sanna Ehdin Anandala, PhD will speak in Swedish in Hanko and in English in Helsinki about The Self-Healing Human.

Hanko

Thursday 23rd May, 2013, 17:00 – 19:00

Hanko Town Hall, Vuorikatu 1

More information under this link: Hangö

Helsinki

Friday 24th May 2013, 18:00 – 20:00

Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Sali 1

More information under this link: Helsinki

Tickets:

biljett.fi and all Luckan offices

piletti.fi and all Piletti offices

News about SFH's School Garden in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Last year, Carlo Petrini challenged Slow Food Helsinki to adopt a garden in Africa. Later that year, we began cooperating with Children Crossing Cultures, which was raising funds to found a garden at a girls’ school in Sierra Leone.

Our cooperation officially began at the Slow Food Helsinki Harvest Dinner. The coordinator of Children Crossing Cultures, Sori Obai Kamara, spoke to the audience about the need for help and, for inspiration, performed African music with his band. Our raffle at the event earned the first euros towards adopting a garden.

By the end of the year, Slow Food Helsinki had raised 900 euro towards the garden at Billnäs Finland School for Girls in Yams Farm, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Representatives from Children Crossing Cultures personally delivered the donation to the women’s group in a meeting of the community elders. The outlines for the garden were measured and marked, and our donation has given them gardening equipment, watering cans, hoes, shovels, as well as seeds, fertilizer, 24 chickens and a sheep.

The workers and students at the school and the elders of the community have thanked Slow Food Helsinki many times for the donation and have promised to do their best to use the money wisely. As was said by Mrs. Fatmata Shawers, who donated the land for the school, “We will put our hands together in the realization of this garden that will feed the children in the Billnäs Finland School.”

Slow Food Helsinki hopes that this garden will help to improve the agriculture in the area sustainably and provide food and an income to the school.

For more information on the charity, see www.childrencrossingcultures.com. For pictures, see the Facebook page here.

Learn to bake - the Finnish way!

Hanna Pikkarainen of the Finnish Marthas will teach an introductory course on Finnish breads and the Karelian pasty. The course is held in the Martha's teaching kitchen, which has plenty of room for a large group. The course lasts for three and a half hours, and you will be able to eat what you have made there and have enough to take home! The course is in English. Welcome!

Introduction to Finnish baking

Wednesday, May 8, 17:00

Lapinlahdenkatu 3, 2nd floor

40 euro for ingredients and course fee

RSVP here.

Slow Food Helsinki would like to introduce our new leader for 2013, Ann Plough

Tell us a little bit about your background.

I was born and raised in Seattle, but I moved to Munich to work for an American company for three years. However, I eventually married a Finn and moved to Helsinki.

How did you get interested in Slow Food?

I first got interested in Slow Food when I was in San Francisco for a Slow Food festival. I got reconnected to the idea when Carlo Petrini visited Helsinki last year. I had read his book on one of my travels, loved the philosophy, and wanted to meet him when he came to Helsinki. I joined Slow Food Helsinki after going and hearing him speak.

What is in store for Slow Food Helsinki this year?

I'd like to see it connected with organizations that have the same philosophy as we do. In the Helsinki region, as a Finnish capital, there's a larger population that is interested in food, and they have the least access to local production. We can make that farm to table connection by working together with others who have this same vision. We have an obligation and an opportunity to connect with those organizations that are already bringing the food from the farms directly to co-producers.

Book Release

Even if you missed the book release, you can still buy the book! Just go to our event registration page here and order one from Slow Food!

Terra Madre Day, Dec. 10, 17:30

Address: Richardinkadun kirjasto, in the conference room on the second floor

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