Terra Madre Day 2011

This year’s theme was The Joy of Preserving.  We looked at the big picture of preserving food: conserving the land it’s grown on, supporting the people who grow our food, and learning about different cultures and their traditional ways of preserving.
Thank you to the Producers, Chefs, Organizations and co-producers (people) who cam to learn about food issues that affect all of us, locally and globally.  And a big thank you to the presenters in our Education Program and the musicians - Frazey Ford, the Wheely Girls and the Larks. 

Without Volunteers, the event cannot happen. Slow Food is a volunteer organization. There are no paid staff. 
The Event Organizers were Sofi Martinez, Diane Williams, Daniela Velez and Joanne MacKinnon.  Supported by Heather Pritchard, Moneca Louel, Brent Mills, Josie Padro, Walter Piovesan, Anna Grabowski.  The Day Of Volunteers deserve an incredible thank you and round of applause.

Be sure to visit LOCATION:  W2 Media Cafe 111 W. Hastings Street under the big W - for their great food. 
Terra Madre Day was an event in partnership with W2 Media Cafe and the FarmFolkCityFolk Community Farm Program

Thank you to:
Community Groups who are working on food issues.  They included: FarmFolkCityFolk Community Farms |Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project aka The Sharing Farm |Blessed Bee CSA |Watari Latin Huerta Communal |Home Farm Harvest |Farm School |Traceability |Sea Choice & Living Oceans Society |Canoe Creek Community Kitchen|Vancouver Society of Storytelling| Grandview Woodland Food Connection| A World in a Garden | GE Free BC and Council of Canadians | Agriculture Workers Alliance

Presenters in our Education Program. They included: Paneer with Meeru Dhalwala from Rangoli’s;  Our Cows Herdshare with Jackie Ingram and Alice Jongerden;  Sausage Making with Save-On-Meats;  Wind-Dry Salmon with Florence Jack from Xwisten Experience Tours, Bridge River Indian Band; Raw Food Preet Marwaha from OrganicLives Restaurant;  Sauerkraut with Ian Marcuse from Grandview Woodland Food Connection; Tsukemono preserved with SakeKasu with Masa Shiroki of the Artisan Sake Maker; Sourdough Starter with Florin Moldovan from Beyond Bread; Canning with Alice Macpherson from Canoe Creek Community Kitchen; The Clean Bin Project with Jen Rustemeyer;  Hazelnut Cream with Peter Andres from Poplar Grove Arbour; In Defense of Raw Milk with Alice Jongerden and Jackie Ingram from Our Cows Herdshare; In Defence of Wild Salmon with Kelly Roebuck from Living Oceans Society

Chefs who Paired with Local Producers to present great canapes W2 Media Cafe| chill winston| Foodtree.inc| Savoury City Catering| Cibo Trattoria| Moccia | The Preserved Seed | Eternal Abundance

Local Producers so we could get to know our farmers who are the intellectuals of the planet, who grow our food.  They included:  SOLEfood| Glen Valley Organic Farm Co-operative| The Flour Peddler| Skeeter Farm | Urban Fresh Roots Farm|  Skipper’s Otto | Organic Oceans|Organic Lives|Beyond Bread |Yummy Yards and Vancouver City Farms |Happy Days Dairy |Six Masters Farm |Pure Bread |Gelderman Farms | Our Cows Herdshare | Poplar Grove Arbour| Mikuni Wild Harvest|Parsons Farm |Hills Foods |

Pourings provided by the local companies and included:  Lotusland Winery | Schramm |SIP Craft Sodas| R & B Brewery Hester Creek Winery|

Musicians who entertained us:  Frazey Ford |The Wheely Girls| The Larks

All proceeds from The Joy of Preserving will go toward our Terra Madre Fund, which sends local BC farmers to the international Terra Madre meeting. The meeting is like a United Nations of food where producers, chefs and academics get together to share ideas about food sustainability. Our farmers come back from Terra Madre inspired and committed to producing food that’s good for us and good for the planet.