Welcome to Slow Food Triangle

Slow Food Triangle celebrates local food and the people who grow and make it. Our members come together to experience and preserve our food traditions, supporting farmers and food artisans who sustain the land and connect us to it. We encourage the rescue and proliferation of traditional ingredients and seek to make those flavors accessible to our whole community.

Our current initiatives include:
Working for better nutrition and taste education in local schools, organizing
Eat Local Triangle for 2010, partnering with local farmers to find new ways of promoting local pasture-raised pork.

Upcoming Events
Come Celebrate Love with Local Food and Drink!

Slow Food Triangle, The Abundance Foundation, and Loom have teamed up with a plethora of sustainable farms, caterers, and a coop in Chatham County to host an I Love u Lunch, on February 14th, Valentine's Day, from 1- 4 pm in the historic Chatham Mills in Pittsboro, NC. The gourmet three-course lunch will feature Greek chicken soup, Sweet Potato Muffins, Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese tarts, Winter Baby Salad Mix, Beet Chiffon Pie, and more!

Tickets to the event are only $10 in advance and $15 at the door (children
under 12 are $8) and can be purchased here.

BYOB or purchase a $3 drink ticket for Benjamin Vineyards wine or Carolina
Brewery beer. The luncheon is a fundraiser for Chatham Marketplace, the local coop also located at Chatham Mills, that offers a wide selection of
local foods. Specifically the proceeds will help pay to solarize the new
Chatham Marketplace sign being installed this spring.

Chatham Mills produced silk and woven labels from 1925 to 1996. Having
produced a livelihood for so many for decades, the current ownership is
renovating the buildings and grounds for adaptive reuse. Plays, concerts,
conferences and events like this luncheon spur Chatham Mills evolution as an inviting, socially vibrant, community centerpiece. Attendees can join a 3:30 - 4 pm tour of the Mill if they wish.

For more information contact Carol or The Abundance Foundation at 533-5181.

Past Events
2nd Annual Traditional Southern New Year’s Day
Friday, January 1, 2010
4:00 - 7:00pm
Golden Belt
2nd Floor, Building 2
807 East Main Street, Durham

SOLD OUT!

Slow Food Triangle invites you to participate in our 2nd Annual Traditional Southern New Year’s Day meal to gather around the table and celebrate our regional heritage, local farmers, food artisans, and community.  The family-style menu includes hoppin’ john, collard greens, cornbread, hearth-baked loaves, and sweet potato pie prepared by some of our community’s most talented chefs and bakers.  Iced tea, locally roasted coffee, and water will be provided; please BYO other beverages, plates, and wares.  We’ll provide the food!

Tickets are $15 for SFT members, $18 for non-members. The event is free for children ages 10 and under.

2009 CEFS Sustainable Agriculture Lecturer: Will Allen
November 9 more info

CEFS is thrilled to welcome Will Allen as its 2009 Sustainable Agriculture Lecturer. Allen is the founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc., and is the recipient of a 2008 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the "Genius" award.

Chapel Hill Creamery Farm Dinner
Monday, September 28, 5:30 - 9:00 pm
The evening begins with special dinner presentation: The cheesemakers of CHC visit Italy, and the world's biggest cheese festival!

more info

Locally Grown Music - Black Dog Music, September 30th, 5:30-7:30pm
During the last Wednesday Market of the Season, Durham Central Park will host the final Locally Grown Music event of the season. Black Dog Music is the featured artist. Bring a blanket, pick up some tasty treats at the Market and listen to some great music.

Chef in the Market - Drew Smith & Andy Magowan, Piedmont, October 3rd
Drew and Andy will be kicking off Piedmont's Sausage Fest '09 at the Market on October 3rd!
www.piedmontrestaurant.com/

2nd Annual Piedmont Green Gala
T.S. Designs
2053 Willow Spring Lane
Burlington, NC 27215 US
Saturday, October 3, 2:00PM to 8:00PM
Phone: 336 229 6426 ext 260

Please visit:
www.piedmontgreengala.com
for details for the day.

Piedmont Biofarm Pittsboro Pepper Festival
Join us on Sunday, October 18 @ 4:00 – 7:00 pm for the Amazing Pittsboro Pepper Festival

click here for more info



Slow Food Triangle "Eat-In" Potluck at George Watts Elementary
Monday, September 7, 2009
Noon - 2pm
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2009 Farm to Fork Picnic
Celebrating Local Food & Local Farms
Sunday, June 14th
W.C. Breeze Family Farm

Hurdle Mills, Orange County
4-7 PM

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In the News

The NC Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council to hold first meeting Feb. 2 at State Fairgrounds.

The NC Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council is a result of the CEFS Farm-to-Fork initiative "Building a Local Food Economy in North Carolina."

The meeting is open to the public.

The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has also created a Web site to share information about the council and its work. Please visit www.ncagr.gov/localfood for more information.

A Southern tradition
The Herald Sun, January 2, 2009
by Cliff Bellamy

This repast is all about the past
N&O, January 2, 2009
by Kristin Collins

Slow Food Offers Southern Comforts For New Year’s
NBC17, January 1, 2009
by Kerry Hall

Smithfield Unionizes!
N&O, December 12, 2008
by Kristin Collins

Recipe for a Vibrant Food Community
Grist, November, 2008
by April McGreger

Carrboro Farmers' Market
The Carrboro Farmers' Market
Photo: North Carolina Cooperative Extension

America's Foodiest Small Town
Bon Appetit, October 2008

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