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Created: Feb 21, 2008
Updated: Nov 27, 2009
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Italian Farmer Exchange
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In conjunction with the Ecological Farming Associations' Eco-Farm Conference the California Farmer's Exchange Alliance and SLOW Food USA a delegation of 12 Italian organic farmers from Umbria will attend the Eco Farm Conference (Jan 23-26) and then tour California farms and culture for 6 days following.
We are looking for those who love to celebrate the pleasures of the table; that being farmers, chefs and co-producers, to help with the hosting of their California stay. While in California they will be networking and investigating California Cuisine and organic farming practices and marketing. These farmers will then be hosting a delegation of California organic farmers, chefs and co-producers following the Slow Food Terra Madre world meeting in Italy in October/ November of 2008.
The farmers from Umbria are the regions Pioneers in organics and their products and goods are some of the most sought after in all of Italy.
The story
An Italian delegation of Farmers from Umbria will be arriving in San Francisco on Jan 21st 2008! My wife and I were both delegates to Terra Madre in 2006, as both a food producer and chef, as well as the great Hall of Taste the Salone De Gusto. We made amazing connections while at Terra Madre, and one that lead to an Umbrian Farmer, Alfredo Fasola coming to California last January for the Eco-Farm Conference in Monterey.
From this relationship a dialogue was created which has manifested into a California-Italian Farmer's Exchange for 2008! A delegation of 12 Umbrian farmers will be arriving in San Francisco on Jan 21st and then attending the Eco-Farm Conference from Jan 23-26th 2008
We have set up a farmers tour before and after Eco-farm, exploring the greater bay area from Marin and Sonoma to the interior valleys, visiting farmers and celebrating the pleasures of the table.
These farmers from Umbria are pioneers in organics and their products are some of the most sought after in all of Italy.
In exchange, the Umbrian farmers have coordinated with their regional governments and farmer networks to host a delegation of the 15-20 California farmers and chefs that participated in their tour while here. This 5 day long Taste of Umbria will follow the Terra Madre gathering in November of 2008.
Farms and restaurants alike are taking part in this amazing event. The Executive chef, Jeff Rogers, at the prestigious Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley will be hosting the farmers on Jan 26th and is putting together a whole week of events spotlighting these amazing farmers and featuring the products and dishes of Umbria, the climax being on Jan 26th with an Evening in Umbria Celebration dinner. Earthbound Farms and the Heller Estate of Carmel Valley will also be hosts and sponsors of this event to serve a dinner that the public will be sure to remember.
Marin Organics is hosting the group the following day with tours through west Marin. The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center is hosting as the groups tours through Sonoma County.
We will visit to the Mendocino growing areas, Napa and or Ca-pay Valleys, and in the San Francisco Bay area before they depart. This will include such hosts as Laguna Farms, Solar Living Institute, Frey Vineyards and Full Belly Farm. A Event with SLOW Food Conviva in the Bay Area will end out their stay on Jan 31st.
This tour is based on donation and volunteering. We need to raise funds to be more gracious hosts while these farmers are in our country. Many organizations such as the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Marin Organics and Quail Lodge have demonstrated their commitment to food and culture by donating generously. Join and help support this growing movement.
Over 200 California farmers were hosted by the Italians for Terra Madre and the Salone de Gusto in 2006 for more than a week, all expenses and food taken care of by the hosting of our local convivia and SLOW Food International. We know that it will be a similar case in October of 2008; thus we are really trying to make the connections for this delegation and be gracious hosts of our international community. We would like to be as reciprocal as possible in the spirit of SLOW food, which also involves our culture. Our Umbrian friends already have a excellent tour for us in November, which sounds amazing!
All ideas and donations are welcome, however great or small. This is a very exciting and unique opportunity to take advantage of, not only for SLOW Food as an organization but to inform the greater public of why our food should be good, clean and fair.
For the love of food
Benjamin and Gabriel Tiradani-Fahrer
Coordinators of the CA-IT Farmer Exchange 2008
Here is the California Trip Itinerary!
Jan 21 Monday Arrive in SFO, 7:50 p.m.
Stay in SF or at Hidden Villa in Los Altos
Jan 22 Tuesday Drive to Camp Joy, for farm visit and hosted lunch
Tour of UCSC Farm and Garden
Drive to Asilomar, check in
Jan 23 Wed EFA Bus Tour, Central Coast 8 a.m to 5 p.m.
Jan 23 8 p.m. Eco-Farm opening
Jan 24 Thursday 8:30 a.m. Organic farming in Italy Presentation
Jan 24-26 Eco-Farm Conference
Jan 26 Evening Gala Event Taste of Umbria ,Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley
This evening event is being hosted by the Executive chef Jeff Rogers, to highlight the unique tasteof the Umbrian Countryside. Tour of Earthbound Farms and the Heller Estate in Carmel Valley will be held prior to the evenings event.
Chef Rogers and some of the top premier Chefs of the monterey bay area will prepare a special evening meal spotlighting the grains, oil and products of the Italian and local California farms.
Jan 27 Sunday Marin Organics, Traveling up to Marin and a tour of Cow Girl Creamery and Other Marin farmers TBA Partnership with Marin Organics accommodations TBD in west Marin
Jan 28 Monday Traveling to Sonoma County. Visit Laguna Farm, and Occidental Arts and Ecology Center with a Community dinner and garden tour of OAEC
Jan 29 Tuesday Day trip to Mendocino Co. Farms, Frey vineyards, Solar Living Institute, Fetzer and/or Sunhawk Farms
Jan 30 Wed. Travel to Farms of Ca-pay Valley, Full Belly Farm, Maddison, and the Center for Land Based Learning; more details TBA
Jan 31st Thursday Marin Farmers Market in the am. Lunch at the restraunt FISH. Tour and dinner in the Bay Area, in Partnership with SLOW Food USA, the San Francisco and East Bay Convivia; TBA
Feb 1st Depart back to Italy from SFO, depart 2:10 p.m.
"For the Love of Food ~ Our Culture of Connection”
From Umbria to California
Ciao Bella! Ciao Bello !
From Umbria to California
Ciao Bella! Ciao Bello !
In conjunction with the Ecological Farming Associations' Eco-Farm Conference the California Farmer's Exchange Alliance and SLOW Food USA a delegation of 12 Italian organic farmers from Umbria will attend the Eco Farm Conference (Jan 23-26) and then tour California farms and culture for 6 days following.
We are looking for those who love to celebrate the pleasures of the table; that being farmers, chefs and co-producers, to help with the hosting of their California stay. While in California they will be networking and investigating California Cuisine and organic farming practices and marketing. These farmers will then be hosting a delegation of California organic farmers, chefs and co-producers following the Slow Food Terra Madre world meeting in Italy in October/ November of 2008.
The farmers from Umbria are the regions Pioneers in organics and their products and goods are some of the most sought after in all of Italy.
Anyone interested in donating money, accomodations, products or as a sponsor of this incredible event, please contact Benjamin Fahrer at pcdesigns@earthlink.net or call 831-667-2376
Your donations are Tax Deductible and can be made out to EFA and sent to
P.O. Box 89 . Big Sur . CA . 93920
Your donations are Tax Deductible and can be made out to EFA and sent to
P.O. Box 89 . Big Sur . CA . 93920
“As
farmers of the world we all speak the same language. As co-producers we
all celebrate the richness and diversity of the world's table"
Vandana Shiva in conversation with Carlo Petrini
speaking to the World Gathering of Food communities, Terra Madre 2006, Turin, Italy
speaking to the World Gathering of Food communities, Terra Madre 2006, Turin, Italy
An Italian delegation of Farmers from Umbria will be arriving in San Francisco on Jan 21st 2008! My wife and I were both delegates to Terra Madre in 2006, as both a food producer and chef, as well as the great Hall of Taste the Salone De Gusto. We made amazing connections while at Terra Madre, and one that lead to an Umbrian Farmer, Alfredo Fasola coming to California last January for the Eco-Farm Conference in Monterey.
From this relationship a dialogue was created which has manifested into a California-Italian Farmer's Exchange for 2008! A delegation of 12 Umbrian farmers will be arriving in San Francisco on Jan 21st and then attending the Eco-Farm Conference from Jan 23-26th 2008
We have set up a farmers tour before and after Eco-farm, exploring the greater bay area from Marin and Sonoma to the interior valleys, visiting farmers and celebrating the pleasures of the table.
These farmers from Umbria are pioneers in organics and their products are some of the most sought after in all of Italy.
In exchange, the Umbrian farmers have coordinated with their regional governments and farmer networks to host a delegation of the 15-20 California farmers and chefs that participated in their tour while here. This 5 day long Taste of Umbria will follow the Terra Madre gathering in November of 2008.
Farms and restaurants alike are taking part in this amazing event. The Executive chef, Jeff Rogers, at the prestigious Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley will be hosting the farmers on Jan 26th and is putting together a whole week of events spotlighting these amazing farmers and featuring the products and dishes of Umbria, the climax being on Jan 26th with an Evening in Umbria Celebration dinner. Earthbound Farms and the Heller Estate of Carmel Valley will also be hosts and sponsors of this event to serve a dinner that the public will be sure to remember.
Marin Organics is hosting the group the following day with tours through west Marin. The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center is hosting as the groups tours through Sonoma County.
We will visit to the Mendocino growing areas, Napa and or Ca-pay Valleys, and in the San Francisco Bay area before they depart. This will include such hosts as Laguna Farms, Solar Living Institute, Frey Vineyards and Full Belly Farm. A Event with SLOW Food Conviva in the Bay Area will end out their stay on Jan 31st.
This tour is based on donation and volunteering. We need to raise funds to be more gracious hosts while these farmers are in our country. Many organizations such as the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Marin Organics and Quail Lodge have demonstrated their commitment to food and culture by donating generously. Join and help support this growing movement.
Over 200 California farmers were hosted by the Italians for Terra Madre and the Salone de Gusto in 2006 for more than a week, all expenses and food taken care of by the hosting of our local convivia and SLOW Food International. We know that it will be a similar case in October of 2008; thus we are really trying to make the connections for this delegation and be gracious hosts of our international community. We would like to be as reciprocal as possible in the spirit of SLOW food, which also involves our culture. Our Umbrian friends already have a excellent tour for us in November, which sounds amazing!
All ideas and donations are welcome, however great or small. This is a very exciting and unique opportunity to take advantage of, not only for SLOW Food as an organization but to inform the greater public of why our food should be good, clean and fair.
For the love of food
Benjamin and Gabriel Tiradani-Fahrer
Coordinators of the CA-IT Farmer Exchange 2008
Here is the California Trip Itinerary!
Umbrian-California Farmers Exchange
Jan. 21 through Feb 1st , 2008
Jan. 21 through Feb 1st , 2008
Jan 21 Monday Arrive in SFO, 7:50 p.m.
Stay in SF or at Hidden Villa in Los Altos
Jan 22 Tuesday Drive to Camp Joy, for farm visit and hosted lunch
Tour of UCSC Farm and Garden
Drive to Asilomar, check in
Jan 23 Wed EFA Bus Tour, Central Coast 8 a.m to 5 p.m.
Jan 23 8 p.m. Eco-Farm opening
Jan 24 Thursday 8:30 a.m. Organic farming in Italy Presentation
Jan 24-26 Eco-Farm Conference
Jan 26 Evening Gala Event Taste of Umbria ,Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley
This evening event is being hosted by the Executive chef Jeff Rogers, to highlight the unique tasteof the Umbrian Countryside. Tour of Earthbound Farms and the Heller Estate in Carmel Valley will be held prior to the evenings event.
Chef Rogers and some of the top premier Chefs of the monterey bay area will prepare a special evening meal spotlighting the grains, oil and products of the Italian and local California farms.
Jan 27 Sunday Marin Organics, Traveling up to Marin and a tour of Cow Girl Creamery and Other Marin farmers TBA Partnership with Marin Organics accommodations TBD in west Marin
Jan 28 Monday Traveling to Sonoma County. Visit Laguna Farm, and Occidental Arts and Ecology Center with a Community dinner and garden tour of OAEC
Jan 29 Tuesday Day trip to Mendocino Co. Farms, Frey vineyards, Solar Living Institute, Fetzer and/or Sunhawk Farms
Jan 30 Wed. Travel to Farms of Ca-pay Valley, Full Belly Farm, Maddison, and the Center for Land Based Learning; more details TBA
Jan 31st Thursday Marin Farmers Market in the am. Lunch at the restraunt FISH. Tour and dinner in the Bay Area, in Partnership with SLOW Food USA, the San Francisco and East Bay Convivia; TBA
Feb 1st Depart back to Italy from SFO, depart 2:10 p.m.
Anyone
interested in donations to help with this California tour, in hosting
the farmers in relation to the above schedule or as a sponsor of this
incredible event, please contact Benjamin Fahrer at
pcdesigns@earthlink.net or call 831-667-2376
"Our land is rich so we don't have to be"
Italian proverb
Italian proverb
