Slow Food Sonoma County North

Farm Tour: Lantern Farm
2019-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Please join Rebecca Bozzelli for a tour of her Lantern Farm!
We will tour through the fields of veggies, fruit, and flowers and sample some produce in the fields. Flowers and produce will be available for purchase in the barn.
26209 River Road, Cloverdale
$10 per person. Get your ticket at Brown Paper Tickets
The tour will be followed by a no-host lunch at Trading Post Restaurant in town.
Please let us know if you are coming to lunch at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com (lunch is not included in the ticket price).
Both Lantern Farm & Trading Post have been awarded our Snail of Approval.
Lantern Farm is a mixed produce and flower production in Cloverdale and one of the first Snail of Approval farms in Sonoma County. While Rebecca was looking for land, her daughter suggested calling the farm Lantern Farm. This seemed like a fine name and the name Lantern Farm was born. A short while later, and conveniently just down the street, Rebecca and her family were looking at a potential farm site on River Road that used to be a prune orchard many years ago and has been fallow since. While inspecting the barn, two old lanterns were hanging on the back wall, a sure sign that this land was to be Lantern Farm. That was in winter of 2016. The lease was signed in April of that same year, and Lantern Farm has been growing ever since.

Slow Farm Tour: Front Porch Farm
2021-06-17 10:00 - 11:30 | Front Porch Farm, 2550 Rio Lindo Avenue, Healdsburg, CA, 95448, United States
Please join us for our first in-person event since 2020!
Our tour begins at 10 am and finishes at approximately 11:30 am. We will visit the orchard and blackberry plot, mixed vegetable garden, and flower section.
Space is limited, so please register at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com.
The cost for the tour is $10 per person. Please pay at the door with cash or by check (checks to SF Sonoma County North).
Please bring your mask. You may also bring your lunch and we will eat together in the farm’s picnic area.
Front Porch Farm is a 110-acre mosaic of fruit and olive orchards; fields of grains, alfalfa, and pasture grasses; rows of flowers; acres of heritage vegetable crops; and vineyards on sunny hillsides. The farm runs along the Russian River in Healdsburg.

Back to School Gardens Fundraiser
2021-07-29 17:00 - 17:30 | Diavola Pizzeria & Salumeria, 21021 Geyserville Avenue, Geyserville, CA, 95441, United States
Support Our School Gardens Project and A Snail of Approval Restaurant with a To-Go Dinner
Diavola Pizzeria & Salumeria is one of our Snail of Approval restaurants. Diavola is collaborating with Sonoma County North to raise funds for our chapter’s School Gardens Project. Every dinner you order through Slow Food from Diavola for July 29 will raise money for the project. We invite you to support our Snail and our school gardens at the same time!
July 29, 2021
Diavola Pizzeria & Salumeria
21021 Geyserville Avenue, Geyserville
(For locations in Healdsburg and Windsor, free delivery is available.)
If you choose not to order dinner on July 29, you may buy a gift certificate worth $25 at Diavola plus your donation for school gardens. We will mail the certificate to you.
Although the pick-up date is July 29, we must place the orders with Diavola by July 15. Please sign up now to participate in this event! Choose a pickup time: 5 pm or 5:30 pm
MENU
Beginning
Dry Creek Peach Mostarda Salad
Entrees
Roasted Pork Loin Chop with a medley of greens (chard, kale, escarole) and white beans with salsa verde
OR
BBQ Cauliflower Steak with Mushroom Ragu (roasted cauliflower, mushrooms, broccoli, fennel) with a medley of greens (chard, kale, escarole) and white beans with salsa verde
$45 per person which includes a donation to the School Gardens Project.
Order Here by July 15

Some Information About Our School Gardens Project
Slow Food USA’s School Gardens Network aims to reconnect youth with their food by teaching them how to grow, cook and enjoy real food. Through increased confidence, knowledge gain and skill building, we want to empower children to become active participants in their food choices. By becoming informed eaters, today’s children will help make positive impact on the larger world of food and farming well into the future.
The goal of our chapter’s School Gardens Project is to support educators, volunteers and garden leaders to help build sustainable school gardens in our community. We work with 8-10 gardens in Sonoma County every year by providing:
• resources and references (books, websites, organizations, tools, supplies, materials, curriculum, grant information, etc.)
• volunteer assistance
• Ark of Taste seeds, transplants, and educational signage
• annual Open House at one of our gardens
• reimbursement of up to $100 per garden for garden-related expenses
• participation in Plant a Seed Program
• annual gift of a garden related item (e.g., book, tool, curriculum)
• Slow Food Curriculum Good and Clean (Fair is in progress)
Our project collaborates with Master Gardeners of Sonoma County Youth Garden Project, Sonoma County School Garden Network, and the Permaculture Design Program. We have granted additional funds for special projects such as irrigation.

Celebrate a Year of Slow Food With Us at Our Annual Meeting, Healdsburg!
2025-10-26 15:00 - 17:00 | CA
Celebrate a Year of Slow Food With Us at Our Annual Meeting!

Barn at Farm to Fight Hunger

Speaker Vince Trotter

October 26, 3-5 pm
Farm to Fight Hunger
12340 Los Amigos Road, Healdsburg

There is no charge for this event, but please register for planning purposes.

Register Here

Come Help Us Celebrate Our Members and Our Collective Work This Year–and Learn About North Bay Agriculture
Mingle with old friends and meet new members, have some nibbles and drinks, and find out what your chapter has been doing this year.
We will enjoy the beauty of the fields and barn at Farm to Fight Hunger and hear from owners Bruce Mentzer and Anthony Solar about their mission to provide food for those in need.
And we are excited to welcome Vince Trotter as our speaker. Vince is Sustainable Ag Coordinator and Agricultural Ombudsman with UC Cooperative Extension in Marin County and co-owner of Kibo Farm. He will give us “A Perspective on North Bay Agriculture” and answer your questions.

Special Information
Please bring your favorite appetizer to share, and label it.
Beverages provided.
Bring a friend! We want to spread the word about Slow Food and Good, Clean, Fair food for all.
If your membership has expired, attend and renew it. Not a member? Come and see what we’re all about!

Farm to Fight Hunger
Our mission is to sustainably grow nutritious vegetables, and to produce pasture-raised eggs, for donation to those in need of healthy food in Sonoma County. We donate 100% of what we grow.
The farm is a Snail of Approval – Slow Food in Sonoma County recipient.

Slow Food Sonoma County North | Contact Us
a 501(c)3 non-profit organization
