Slow Food

Helda attended Terra Madre, the Slow Food conference in Turin, Italy the week before last, along with 6,000 farmers, chefs and academics from all over the world. She met us in Guatemala with a bad cold, a suitcase full of goodies from the "Salone del Gusto," and her head buzzing with ideas and inspiration. She gave a talk about traditional agroecological knowledge in the Guatemalan and Chiapanecan highlands and she might be in the Slow Food movie. She also got to hear talks by some of our agroecological heroes, like Vandana Shiva (photo) and Michael Pollan.