Slow Food Sonoma County North

Slow Books: Discussion of "Insatiable"
2018-03-21 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Healdsburg
Join us for wine, hors d’oeuvres, and a Slow Books discussion!
Lynda Guthrie’s home, Healdsburg (address will be sent upon registration)
Please bring an hors d’oeuvre and beverage to share.
There is no charge for this event, but space is limited.
Please RSVP to slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com
What Is Slow Books?
Slow Books are discussions of food-related books written from a variety of perspectives–chef, critic, consumer, producer. Meetings are held every 2 months and are open to everyone with an interest in the current book. Books are chosen by the group. Hosting and discussion leader will change for each meeting.
Insatiable: Tales From A Life of Delicious Excess by Gael Greene
A memoir based on the author’s life-long love affair with food, men, and wine traces her experimentation with the sensual nature of both food and sex before and throughout the course of her career as a restaurant critic for New York magazine, during which she met such culinary giants as Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, in an account complemented by some of the author’s favorite recipes.

Stuff It! A Slow Sausage Workshop
2018-03-15 10:00
Workshop and Lunch
Sydney Sciaini and Marie Giacalone will share their recipes, techniques, and tips for making your own sausage. They will make two kinds of sausage: Italian and Sweet & Spicy Breakfast.
Marie and Sydney will begin with whole pork shoulder, and go through the process of grinding and seasoning the meat, stuffing it into casings, and/or making breakfast patties. When the sausages are finished, they will be the centerpiece of lunch.
Lunch Menu
Sausages
Gratin of onions and fennel
Coleslaw
Roasted potatoes
Frozen Meyer lemon mousse
We encourage you to bring a beverage of your choice.
Sydney Sciaini’s home, Cloverdale (address will be sent upon registration)
Registration
The cost for this event is $35 for Slow Food members and $45 for nonmembers. Space is limited and the meat must be ordered in advance, so to insure your spot at this event, your check and reservation are due no later than March 9th.
Register at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com.
Make your check to SF Sonoma County North and mail c/o Crapeau, 985 Lupine Court, Healdsburg 95448.

Slow Books: Discussion of Blood, Bones & Butter
2018-01-30 17:30
Join us for wine, hors d’oeuvres, and a Slow Books discussion!
195 Westside Road, Healdsburg, Marisha Zeffer’s home
Please bring an appetizer and beverage to share.
There is no charge for this event, but space is limited. Please RSVP to slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com
Slow Books are discussions of food-related books written from a variety of perspectives–chef, critic, consumer, producer. Our plan is to hold Slow Books on a regular basis, perhaps every 2-3 months. Meetings would be open to everyone with an interest in the current book, with books chosen by the group. Hosting will change for each meeting, and the host will lead the discussion.
These are our thoughts, but at our first meeting we want to hear how you would like Slow Books to be structured.
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; Hamilton’s own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law, who serves as the link between Hamilton’s idyllic past and her own future family—the result of a prickly marriage that nonetheless yields lasting dividends. By turns epic and intimate, Gabrielle Hamilton’s story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humor, and passion.

Tortilla-Making and Lunch With the Diaz Sisters
2018-01-23 10:30 | Diaz Home, 26607 River Rd, Cloverdale
Instruction and practice, followed by lunch
Join the Diaz Sisters and learn to make flour tortillas. Margie Diaz Bourdon and Eliza Diaz Thompson will lead us in a morning session on the process, sprinkled with some stories and fun. Learn to make the dough, roll with the pipa and grill up light, delicious tortillas. You will never want to buy store-bought again!
Hands on, we will work together to make the dough and get a feel for rolling out the tortillas.
Lunch featuring the tortillas will be served, a meal including Chile Colorado with beans, rice and more.

$25 Slow Food members, $35 non-members
Space is limited, so RSVP now to hold your place at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com!
Get your tickets at Brown Paper Tickets.
If you prefer, you may send a check made out to Slow Food SCN to Crapeau, 985 Lupine Court, Healdsburg 95448.
We must receive your check no later than Saturday, January 20.

Around the Slow Table, Cookbook Version: Gjelina
2017-11-10 18:00 | A Healdsburg home, address will be sent upon registration.
Do you like to try new recipes and share the results with a small group of friends? Do you enjoy discussing a dish’s ingredients and process of creating it? If you said YES, then join us for dinner based on recipes each guest prepares from Gjelina: Cooking from Venice, California, by Travis Lett.

This is how it works. Get a copy of Gjelina—the Sonoma County Library has both hard copies and a Hoopla electronic version, and the host will share her copy. Just select a recipe that appeals to you and make enough for 10 people to have a small amount (a recipe that serves 4-6 people should be sufficient).
Kitchen space is limited, so please bring a dish that doesn’t require last-minute preparation.
Please also bring a beverage to share.
At dinner you’ll get to know each other and discuss your experiences preparing your dish. You may also nominate your own favorite cookbook for another Slow Table meal.
Please RSVP to slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com. After you receive confirmation from us, tell us what recipe you have chosen.
There is room for 10 people, but if more sign up we may add another dinner location.

Gjelina (silent “G”) is a casual restaurant in Venice, California, that is always packed. (The young chef, Travis Lett, says he wanted it to be the “ideal neighborhood joint.”) Recipes in his cookbook offer complex flavors and include lots of yummy salads and vegetables (like pan-seared romanesco with golden raisins, tahini and sumac) along with pizza (mushrooms and truffle-studded goat cheese), pasta (spaghetti with anchovies, red pepper flakes, garlic and oregano), grains (wild rice with chorizo, walnuts and pomegranate) and—for those up to the challenge—even make-it-yourself sausage. Follow this link for an article on how to throw a Gjelina-style dinner party.

Snail of Approval in Sonoma County Launch & Awards
2017-11-01 17:30 - 19:00
Invitation Only

Open Garden
2017-10-19
Open Garden at Riebli Elementary School, Santa Rosa. This is an activity of our School Gardens project.
More information coming soon!!

Crane Melon Farm tour
2017-10-07 11:00 - 14:00
Crane Melon Farm Tour
Come join us for a tour of the Crane Melon Farm, home of the original Crane Melon!
1655 Crane Canyon Road, Rohnert Park
Our tour will be led by Mr. Crane with visits to the farm, museum and barn. There are 2 locations for this tour. We will start at the farm and museum where the Melons are grown (above address) at 11:00 am, then move to the Crane Barn for a tasting.
Delicious Crane Melons will be available for purchase at the barn.
Bring your own packed lunch and we’ll enjoy an outdoor meal with friends at the on site picnic tables.
This event is free, but space is limited to the first 20 participants, please email slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com to RSVP.
The Crane Melon is on the Slow Food Ark of Taste, learn more at Ark of Taste/Crane Melon
The Crane melon averages 4-7 pounds, is round like a soccer ball, and has a light orange flesh that is highly aromatic. The fruit is exceptionally sweet and juicy. As Jennifer Crane – the sixth generation to own and operate the Crane Ranch and grow the Crane melon – explains, “The Crane melon’s flavor is due to its terroir. The melon was developed to be grown on the land that’s been in the Crane family for nearly 160 years – in a particular soil, within a specific climate zone, farmed in a certain style.” Crane Melon Farm

The Agrarian Games
2017-09-16 12:00 - 18:00 | Petaluma Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Our Snail of Approval project will be participating in the Agrarian Games , join us for fun & games!!

An interactive festival celebrating sustainable agriculture, local food and family farms!
From wheelbarrow relays to watermelon seed-spitting, whether you’re a farmer or an eater, a country bumpkin or a city-slicker, join us for an afternoon of local food, live music and farm-themed games to test your strength and speed, your knowledge of soil types and your proficiency with a pitchfork.
For the fourth year in a row, we invite all of California to come build, explore and celebrate a more just, healthy and regenerative food community for all.
Stop by the FARMERS MARKET for locally-grown products!
LIVE MUSIC by the The Hubbub Club, Oddjob Ensemble, Miss Moonshine and Buck Thrifty!
Food trucks and vendors serving up organic ingredients from our favorite farms and ranches, plus wine and beer from the North Bay’s finest.
Activities include: the haybale toss, squash bowling, the honeybee hustle, competitive irrigation, butter churning, potato sack races and much, much more.

The National Heirloom Expo
2017-09-05 09:00 - 2017-09-07 21:00 | Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa, 95404, United States
Come and walk the aisles at the “World’s Pure Food Fair!”, an event for pure food enthusiasts, the national press, home growers across the country, farmers, school groups and the general public. The Expo is now dubbed the “World’s Fair” of the heirloom industry! This is a “non-profit” event, and any funds above cost will be donated to school gardens and food programs.

We will be represented at the Slow Food California booth at the National Heirloom Exposition (7th Annual). It is such a great local event, come on down, and be sure to stop by and say Hi!!

Annual Slow Food Summer Picnic at Gradek Ranch
2017-07-29 16:00 - 19:00 | Gradek Ranch, 2323 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg, CA, 95448, United States
Please join us for a picnic at the Gradek Ranch in Healdsburg’s Dry Creek Valley.
Music by Duo Pizzicato
100-mile appetizer contest
Raffle

Appetizers
Join in the fun and bring a “100 mile appetizer” to share, using only ingredients sourced within 100 miles. Prizes for the two favorite appetizers will be awarded! (Bringing an appetizer is optional.)
MENU
Tri-tip
Farro salad
Caprese salad
Roasted peppers
Potato salad
Costeaux bread
Dessert

BYOB, place setting, glass.
Bring a bathing suit if you want to swim in the lake.

Calling their music “old-time Italian,” Martha Hawthorne and Bill Foss play traditional Italian mandolin tunes and songs that will make you feel transported to an Italian café. Their repertoire includes energetic polkas, evocative waltzes, sensuous mazurkas, wild tarantellas, and beautiful vocal harmonies.

Tickets are $35 for Slow Food members, $45 for nonmembers. Children under 12 are free.
Buy your tickets at Brown Paper Tickets.
If you prefer to pay by check, please register at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com and send your check (made out to SF Sonoma County North) to D. Crapeau, 985 Lupine Circle, Healdsburg 95448.
Directions will be sent upon registration.

Slow Food Nations-Denver, CO
2017-07-14 - 2017-07-16 | Denver, CO, United States
Slow Food Nations will gather leaders and eaters, farmers and chefs, educators and families for a weekend of tastings, tours and talks in July 2017. For three days, Denver, CO will become the center of the North American food universe. Innovation meets tradition during exciting culinary workshops, seminars, dine-around dinners, tours, informal eating and drinking, and a grand tasting hall.
More information to come.

20th Anniversary Celebration & Annual Meeting
2017-06-25 15:00
Please join us for a celebration of our chapter’s 20th anniversary!
The Red Barn behind 195 Westside Road, Healdsburg
The celebration will include our annual meeting and supper.
There is no cost for the afternoon, but please register with us for planning purposes at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com.
The founders and first board members of our chapter will share some stories of the early days and history of Sonoma County North and the changes they have seen. Current board members and project leaders will then give a brief report of the current State of the Chapter.
Then it’s time to celebrate! We will grill home-made sausages and ask you to bring the rest! Please bring:

Appetizer, side dish or dessert to share
Your place setting and glass
Something to drink

If you are not currently a member of Slow Food, you may join or renew at the meeting with cash or check ($60 per person;$100 per family).

Tastes & Tales of Terra Madre Dinner
2017-05-13 17:30 | Odd Fellows Hall Geyserville, 21027 Geyserville Avenue, Geyserville, CA, 95441, United States
Please join us for our bi-annual Tastes & Tales of Terra Madre dinner to celebrate Slow Food and our chapter’s three delegates to Italy’s Terra Madre.
Odd Fellows Hall in Geyserville

Slow Food International holds a bi-annual gathering in Turin, Italy called Terra Madre Salone del Gusto. Five-thousand delegates from 160 countries, over 800 exhibitors, 300 Slow Food Presidia, and 500 Terra Madre food communities took part in the event in 2016.
Sonoma County North sent three delegates: Rebecca Bozzelli, Carol Diaz, and Marie Giacalone. We invite you to join us for Tastes (a four-course dinner) and Tales from our delegates of their adventure at Terra Madre 2016.
A selection of appetizers will begin the evening, followed by dinner featuring spring lamb and local wines. We will enjoy live Latin rhythm music by Steve Trippe and friends.
There will be a silent auction for a “100-Mile Dinner” prepared by Sonoma County North leaders and served in the winner’s home.
This evening will raise funds to send our delegates to Terra Madre in 2018.
Slow Food members, $75
Non-members, $85
Purchase tickets at Brown Paper Tickets
Odd Fellows Hall
21027 Geyserville Avenue
Geyserville, CA 95441

“The challenge of Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016 for Slow Food was political, cultural and social: to assert that good, clean and fair food is a human right, something we must all feel part of, and that means loving the earth!
We can proudly say that we’ve succeeded in this challenge.”
Gaetano Pascale, President of Slow Food Italia

Around the Slow Table: Cookbook Version
2017-04-27 18:00 | Phyllis and Chris Baldenhofer’s home, 417 Greens Drive, Healdsburg, CA, United States
Do you like to try new recipes and share the results with a small group of friends? Do you enjoy discussing a dish’s ingredients and process of creating it? If you said YES, then join us for dinner based on recipes each guest prepares from Jerusalem, by Yotam Otttolenghi and Sami Tamimi.
This is how it works. Find a copy of Jerusalem—Sonoma County Library has 9 copies, and Phyllis will share her copy. Select a meal category: appetizer, main, side or salad, or dessert, and choose a recipe for that category. Then bring that dish, sufficient for 10 people, to dinner.
Please also bring a beverage to share.
At dinner you’ll get to know each other and discuss your experiences preparing your Middle-Eastern dish. You may also nominate your own favorite cookbook for another Slow Table meal.
Please RSVP to slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com and tell us what meal category you will bring. There is room for only 10 people at the table.
Questions? Please call Phyllis at 707/433-1660.
This event was inspired by an article in the New York Times describing a cookbook club. We modified that plan to fit our Around the Slow Table format.

It's Better with Bitters!
2017-03-26 12:00 - 14:00
Join us for a fun, hands-on learning experience that will teach you how to make your own signature bitters.
After a welcoming cocktail, the owners of Duke’s Spirited Cocktails will lead attendees through the process of making bitters — a key ingredient in many classic and contemporary cocktails. Each participant will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of botanicals and citrus to individually craft flavored bitters to take home.
$30 Slow Food members / $35 guests
Please register at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com, and send a check, made out to SF Sonoma County North, to Slow Food, c/o Crapeau, 985 Lupine Court, Healdsburg 95448.

Celebrate the Coming of Spring!
2017-03-12 15:00 - 18:00
Please join us for an afternoon of food, wine, and live music to raise funds for our summer intern!
Our Slow Food intern, Astrid Panizza, is a student at the University of Padua, Italy. She will be with us in Sonoma County from April through June, 2017, to research the Bodega Red Potato and Gravenstein Apple. All proceeds from this event will be used for her expenses while she is here.
Bring your friends and enjoy an afternoon of food, wine, and live music!
RSVP to slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com.
You may buy your tickets on Brown Paper Tickets or send your check for $20/person, made out to Slow Food SCN, to Marisha Zeffer, 195 Westside Road, Healdsburg 95448.

Meet Astrid
Astrid Panizza is in the Local Development Master’s program at the University of Padua, Italy, focusing on community development. In her words, “My passion for protecting the traditions and preservation of our environment pushed me to become a member of my local Slow Food chapter more than a year ago. My research will ‘follow’ two products present in the U.S. Ark of Taste, the Red Bodega potato and Gravenstein apple. I will do interviews with producers and with those involved in saving the two products. Coming from Italy, the home of Slow Food, I want to explore the ways in which the work of this wonderful organization has spread throughout the world, beginning with the collective effort of individuals that came together for a shared purpose.”
You will have the opportunity to meet Astrid at future Sonoma County North events, especially Tastes & Tales of Terra Madre on May 13!

Slow Distillation-Local Whiskey & Cider
2017-02-22 11:00 - 14:00
Join your Slow Food family in this double-barreled day of tours and tastings of locally-distilled whiskey and cider!
$30/per person, $35 non-members
Meet at Alley 6 at 11 a.m. for an 11:15 tour and tasting, 1401 Grove Street, Unit D (just north of Dry Creek Road).
From Alley 6, continue to Sonoma Cider at 44F Mill Street (2 blocks south of the Plaza), arriving for a 12:30 tasting.
We will begin at Alley 6 with a tour and tasting of their haute, hand-crafted whiskies and their newest addition, Harvest Gin. This boutique distillery is highly valued by some of the finest restaurants in California for its cutting-edge, handcrafted products.
After Alley 6, we will “press on” to Sonoma Cider for a tasting at their new taproom, located a 5-minute drive away. Sonoma Cider handcrafts the only full line of organic ciders in the US, each made with distinctive, all natural, gluten-free ingredients. Choose a flight of their four award-winning “Core Ciders” or try one of their other organic craft ciders (over 20 on tap!). If you wish, stay for lunch (not included in your ticket price) featuring French and Basque influenced cuisine that pairs exquisitely with the uniquely crafted cider flavors.

Please register at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com, and send a check for $30/person ($35 for non-members), made out to SF Sonoma County North, to Zeffer, 195 Westside Road, Healdsburg 95448.

Mercantino di Natale-An Italian Christmas Festival
2016-12-03 11:00 - 17:00 | St Rose Parish Hall, 320 10th Street, Santa Rosa, 95401
North Bay Italian Cultural Foundation and Slow Food Sonoma County North
P R E S E N T
Mercantino di Natale
An Italian Christmas Festival
St. Rose Parish Hall, 320 Tenth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Live Entertainment by
Sheri Mignano of Due Zighi Baci and NBICF Coro Allegro
Food, Wine, Beer, Live Music, Food Tastings, Local Crafts, Artisan Gifts,
Silent Auction, Italian-Themed Books for all ages, and more
Special Appearance by La Befana
(the kind Italian Christmas witch)
$5/ticket in advance $10/ticket at the door
Children under 12: Free
Be sure to get your tickets soon!
F O R T I C K E T S
NBICF office 707-591-9696. Also, available at all NBICF events and dinners,
or email Slow Food Sonoma County North:
slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com
or through Brown Paper Tickets at
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2667032.
For more information, please see the NBICF website: www.nbicf.org.

— S P O N S O R S —
LUTHER BURBANK SAVINGS
VICTOR & KAREN TRIONE AND SONOMA COUNTY GRANGE CREDIT UNION

Proceeds from this event benefit the community endeavors of the North Bay Italian Cultural Foundation
and Slow Food Sonoma County North, non-profit organizations in Sonoma County, CA.

Olive Harvest and Lunch at a Mountain Vineyard
2016-11-19 09:30
Please join us to harvest olives and enjoy a community lunch at Montemaggiore Winery on Saturday, November 19.
Picking starts at 9:30 and lunch will be at noon. You may continue picking in the afternoon if you wish. And you’ll take home some olives and a brining recipe.
We’ll be joining Montemaggiore wine club members, so space is limited—sign up now! The cost is $35 for members, $45 for non-members. Please register at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com. When your place is confirmed, send a check to Sonoma County North c/o Witten, 26100 Bella Aria Way, Cloverdale 95425.
Wear sturdy waterproof boots and gloves, and dress in layers. And don’t forget a hat, sunglasses and water bottle! The event goes on drizzle or shine, but is cancelled if it’s pouring rain.
The owners of Montemaggiore are Sonoma County North members Lise and Vincent Ciolino. “Our family hails from Montemaggiore Belsito, a small mountain village in southern Italy where organically-grown food and hand-crafted products abound. This is where Vincent’s father and forefathers farmed the land, made wine, and spent every Sunday surrounded by family at the dinner table, enjoying the fruits of their labor. Our personal Montemaggiore is a small mountainside country estate in northern California where we grow grapes and olives for our hand-crafted wines and olive oils. Our family values are true to Montemaggiore Belsito—we live in harmony with the land, keep close family ties, and enjoy wonderful food and festivity.”

Cloverdale Breweries Tour & Tasting
2016-10-22 11:30 - 14:30
We are touring and tasting in two Cloverdale breweries on Saturday, October 22. The first tour starts at 11:30 and we will finish at the second brewery at approximately 2:30. Please join us!

Bear Republic Brewing Company
Bear Republic’s brewery is seldom open to the public, and we are very pleased to be given a private tour and beer tasting by the company’s CEO, Richard R. Norgrove, who is also a member of Sonoma County North.
Please arrive at 11:20 for an 11:30 am tour.
110 Sandholm Lane, Cloverdale

Cloverdale Ale Company
When we are finished at Bear Republic, we’ll go to Cloverdale Ale for a matched food and ale tasting. The company is locally owned by Doug & Lois Dilley and Jeff & Elsie Richardson. We will be hosted by Doug and brew master Tim Gallagher. Five ales will be matched with delicious bites that include cheeses, roasted vegetables and shrimp, chicken mini-tacos, beef tenderloin crostini, and cookies!
The tasting will be followed by a tour of the brewery.
131 East 1st Street, Cloverdale

Space is limited so sign up now!
$35 per person for members, $45 for non-members.
Please RSVP to slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com.
When you’ve received an acknowledgement, send your check made out to Sonoma County North to Lisa Hunter, 1321 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg 95448.

Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016
2016-09-22 - 2016-09-26
Slow Food will once again gather its leaders and supporters from across the globe for an unparalleled event – Terra Madre Salone del Gusto. This year marks an important evolution for the gathering, which had its beginnings in 1996. For the first time, it will move out into the beautiful city of Turin, making the delicious and important message of Slow Food available to all.
As in years past, a global delegation will be selected to join the meetings there to help chart the future of our movement as we continue to create a world in which there is good, clean and fair food for all.
Signature tasting events will invite the public to learn from producers, chefs, and other food experts while sampling some of the most incredible foods in the world. These experiences will be available both as ticketed and free events.

Spuds, Fun, and Friends!
2016-08-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Healdsburg
Celebrate the Bodega Red Potato and Slow Food Membership Month!
Please join us for an early evening snack fest of Bodega Red potatoes and friendship: Bring your favorite beverage and your favorite friend (or two) and we’ll handle the rest!
Sonoma County North has championed the Bodega Red potato by bringing it back from the edge of extinction. Presently the potato is on the Slow Food Ark of Taste, grown by numerous Sonoma County farmers, and sold by local farmers and supermarkets. This year we planted our own crop and have a bountiful harvest to share. Our team is preparing the potatoes in a variety of delicious ways.
And because September is Membership Month for Slow Food across the nation, this is the perfect opportunity to bring our friends into the Sonoma County North community.

There is no cost for the event, but space is definitely limited! Please RSVP by August 18 to slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com. Directions will be sent with confirmation.
Bodega Red potato snacks
Bring Your Own Beverage
Bring a friend…it’s membership month!
Sunday, August 21, 6-8 pm

Wise Acre Farm Tour and Garden Brunch
2016-08-16 09:45 | Wiseacre Farm, 631 Arata Lane, Windsor, 95492, United States
Meet the chickens at Wise Acre Farm and enjoy their eggs at brunch!
Our farm tour will be followed by brunch in the beautiful garden of a nearby home. The menu will include fruit, croissants, frittatas, deviled eggs, mimosas, and coffee.

Space is limited so please RSVP now! slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com.
$25 per person, $35 for non-members. To confirm your reservation, send a check made out to Slow Food SCN, c/o Marisha Zeffer, 195 Westside Road, Healdsburg 95448.

Wise Acre Farm raises happy, healthy chickens in an environmentally friendly manner:
“We have custom built mobile coops to provide our hens with a safe comfortable shelter. During the day our chickens are free to forage for their natural diet consisting of: seeds, green plants, insects and worms. We supplement this diet with certified non GMO, organic feed. Every week the hens get moved, which allows the previous fields to rejuvenate for up to 8 months.”

Annual Summer Picnic at Gradek Ranch
2016-07-17 15:00 - 19:00 | Gradek Ranch, 2323 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg, CA, 95448, United States
Please join us at the Gradek Ranch in Healdsburg’s Dry Creek Valley.
This year’s picnic will be a pig roast!
Music by New Skye
Raffle to raise funds for Sonoma County North projects
Beer tasting by Cloverdale Ale
100-mile appetizer contest-If you wish, bring a “100-mile appetizer” using ingredients sourced within 100 miles. Prizes for the best two appetizers!
Menu
Roast pork, cooked on site by Keith’s BBQ Beast
Bodega Red potato salad
Petaluma Gold Rush beans
Green salad
Costeaux bread
Dessert

BYOB and place setting.
Bring a bathing suit if you want to swim in the lake.

Tickets are $40 for Slow Food members, $50 for nonmembers.
Please register at events@slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org
Buy your tickets at Brown Paper Tickets or send a check made out to SF Sonoma County North to Marisha Zeffer, 195 Westside Road, Healdsburg 95448.

Tour of Sunset/Cornerstone Sonoma
2016-06-30 09:45 | Cornerstone Sonoma, 23570 Arnold Drive, Sonoma, CA, 95476, United States
Join us for a tour of the Sunset Gardens and Outdoor Test Kitchen at Cornerstone Sonoma, followed by lunch.
$15 Slow Food members, $20 nonmembers
Register at slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com, and send a check made out to SF Sonoma County North to Lynn Davis, 855 Foothill Drive, Windsor 95492-7996.
Space is limited, so sign up now!
Check out Sunset/Cornerstone!
The tour is approximately an hour and begins promptly at 10 am; please arrive by 9:45.
After the tour, we’ll enjoy lunch together at the Cornerstone picnic tables. These tables are not shaded, so please bring a sun hat. Either brown bag it, or pick up lunch at the onsite Park 121 Restaurant. (Better yet, order your lunch ahead at 938-8579. Park 121.) Chef at Park 121 is Bruce Riezenman, a long-time member of Slow Food. He has been sourcing locally for more than 25 years, and has built relationships with farmers and producers throughout Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties.

Cornerstone Sonoma is a marketplace featuring shopping, boutique wine rooms, artisanal foods, art-inspired gardens, and live music. It is home to the newly completed Sunset Gardens + Outdoor Test Kitchen.
The five Sunset Test Gardens span a quarter acre and highlight food production, the Sunset plant line, bee habitat, cut flowers, and composting. Designed by Homestead Design Collective, the new gardens are divided into distinct rooms: the Cocktail Garden, the Farm Garden, Gathering Space, Backyard Orchard, and the Flower Room.
In the Sunset Outdoor Kitchen, recipes and kitchen crafts are tested, explored, and photographed in search of the best new ideas and insider tips.

Annual Meeting
2016-05-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Timber Crest Farms picnic area, 4791 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg, CA, 95448, United States
More information to follow

Slow Food Russian River event: It’s All About the Soil – Farming on a Hot Planet
2016-03-20 11:00 - 15:00
For more information on this event, https://www.facebook.com/events/557101537786003/
For tickets, http://sfrr-allaboutthesoil.brownpapertickets.com/

Bodega Red Seed Potato Pick up
2016-03-19
More information to follow.

Festa di San Giuseppe Dinner and the West Coast Movie Premiere of Amuri: The Sacred Flavors of Sicily
2016-03-12 17:00 - 20:00 | St Rose Parish Hall, 320 10th Street, Santa Rosa, 95401
North Bay Italian Cultural Foundation & Slow Food Sonoma County North jointly present a special event – Festa di San Giuseppe Dinner and the West Coast premiere of documentary film “Amuri—The Sacred Flavors of Sicily”

This Special Event Commemorates La Festa di San Giuseppe, a traditional day of giving.
Dinner includes Appetizer, Salad, Fried Fish, Lemon Risotto, Vegetables, & Assortment of Biscotti for Dessert. Wine included. No-host Bar.
Raffle: To benefit “The Living Room”
Donations of canned goods for the Redwood Food Bank are welcome
Doors open at 5:00pm, Dinner at 6:00pm
35-min documentary film to be shown following dinner
Limited Seating: Prepaid Reservations Only: $30/each for Members (NBICF & SFSCN); $35/each for Guests; $12/each for Teens, 13–18 yrs; $8/each for Child, 5–13 yrs; free /each for Child under 5 yrs
Reserve by March 4, 2016. Make checks payable to NBICF. Mail to 64 Brookwood Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. You can also reserve tickets online at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2494551
