Results tagged “slowfood”

Don't we all. But this is a uniquely romantic opportunity: spend a year in Parma, one of Italy's food hubs, studying sustainable agriculture at a university run by the Slow Food organization, with field trips to France, Greece and Spain, then produce a final project about it. This Bostonist smells a book deal.

It was exactly the kind of day that makes Bostonist not want to be outdoors: rainy, 40's, gray, Boston's March specialty. Yet, last Sunday we found ourselves walking up to the Arnold Arboretum's Hunnewell Visitor Center in Jamaica Plain to join a small crowd of would-be green thumbs in the name of gardening. We were there for Slow Food Boston's Seed Exchange & Container Gardening Workshop, an introduction for aspiring urban gardeners to the art of growing things you can eat with minimal square footage.

Last night, Bostonist attended the sold-out Slow Food produce tasting we plugged last week, which allowed us to try several rare strains of tomato, pear, watermelon, and apricot (all are in season) that Slow Food is helping to preserve through their ARK of Taste project, which aims to promote biodiversity and track tasty food products for future generations.