The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of delicious and distinctive foods facing extinction. By identifying and championing these foods, we keep them in production and on our plates.
Agricultural biodiversity and small–scale, family-based food production systems are in danger throughout the world due to industrialization, genetic erosion, changing consumption patterns, climate change, the abandonment of rural areas, migration, and conflict.
The Ark of Taste invites everybody to take action: In some cases, products need to be rediscovered and put back on the table, and producers need to be supported and to have their stories told; in others, such as the case of endangered wild species, it might be better to eat less or none of them in order to preserve them and favor their reproduction.
Slow Food Ark of Taste Fruit and Vegetables That Do Well in Sonoma County (Tested by Small Farmers and School Gardeners)
Beans
Christmas Lima
Hidatsa Shield Figure
Lina Cisco’s Bird Egg
Marrowfat
Petaluma Gold Rush
Pinquitos
Rio Zape
Beets
Early Blood Turnip Rooted
Corn
Stowell’s Evergreen Sweet Corn
Chapalote Corn
Lettuce
Amish Deer Tongue
Grandpa Admires
Speckled
Tennis Ball
Onions
I’Itoi Onion
Peppers
Beaver Dam
Jimmy Nardello’s Sweet Italian Frying
Sheepnose Pimiento
Wenk’s Yellow Hots
Fish Pepper
Potatoes
Bodega Red Potato
Makah Ozette Potato
Squash
Amish Pie
Sibley
Sugar Hubbard Squash
Tomatoes
Amish Paste
Brandywine, Sudduth Strain
Burbank
Orange Oxheart
Cherokee Purple
Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter
Djena Lee’s Golden Girl
Red Fig
Valencia
Livingston’s Golden Queen
Apples
Gravenstein Apples
Apricots
Blenheim Apricot
Lemons
Meyer Lemons of California’s Central Coast
Melons
Crane
Moon & Stars Watermelon
Peaches
Fay Alberta Peach
Plums
Elephant Heart Plum
Garlic
Inchelium Red Garlic
Lorz Italian Garlic
Spanish Roja Garlic
The Ark of Taste Slow Food Ark of Taste USA
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Grow Out Leader: Debbi Crapeau