What does being a Slow Food Board Member mean to you?
Being a Slow Food Lake Tahoe Board Member means making a commitment to lead by example to connect people with good, clean, fair food. It also means listening intently and meeting people where they are at. There is so much common ground around the topic of food. I enjoy helping different types of people see new possibilities for creating and celebrating REAL food-community connections in their daily life.
What projects for Slow Food are you currently working on?
Aside from filing our taxes, I am beginning to plan our annual learn-to-homebrew workshop for late March. As a long-time homebrewer, I've led this workshop for the past few years and always look forward to it. The workshop will be held at my new brewery, Alibi Ale Works, in Incline Village. I've been chasing this lifelong dream of opening a brewery for several years now and we just got Alibi Ale Works open on December 13th. We have designed our taproom to be a true public house, where friends can gather and people can mix in a place that isn't a sports bar or fine dining. Its been really fun to start building a community around the brewery in the short month we've been open. We'll be hosting a variety of Slow Food related events at the brewery in the near future, so stay tuned!
How do you see Slow Food Lake Tahoe impacting the community this year?
Our workshop series is always a hit but after taking over management of the Truckee Demonstration Garden last summer, we now have an exciting place to demonstrate and celebrate local food production. I'm looking forward to raising awareness and getting more people to the garden this summer to get their hands dirty and learn about high altitude gardening. We are also starting to be known as a resource for connecting people with local farms, ranches and other food producers, and making it easier to eat seasonally and locally in the Tahoe area is a high priority to me.
Why is it a good organization to be involved in?
Anyone who really cares about food, farming, food access and hunger, and the health of our land and water should consider becoming a member of Slow Food USA. In addition to supporting local chapters like our Lake Tahoe chapter, Slow Food USA is working aggressively at the federal and state level on so many key issues - the Farm Bill; healthy school lunch programs and school gardens; even transforming meat production in this country to a "slower" system. It is amazing what they are accomplishing on a fairly lean budget.
Vote with your dollar and join Slow Food USA today!
Being a Slow Food Lake Tahoe Board Member means making a commitment to lead by example to connect people with good, clean, fair food. It also means listening intently and meeting people where they are at. There is so much common ground around the topic of food. I enjoy helping different types of people see new possibilities for creating and celebrating REAL food-community connections in their daily life.
What projects for Slow Food are you currently working on?
Aside from filing our taxes, I am beginning to plan our annual learn-to-homebrew workshop for late March. As a long-time homebrewer, I've led this workshop for the past few years and always look forward to it. The workshop will be held at my new brewery, Alibi Ale Works, in Incline Village. I've been chasing this lifelong dream of opening a brewery for several years now and we just got Alibi Ale Works open on December 13th. We have designed our taproom to be a true public house, where friends can gather and people can mix in a place that isn't a sports bar or fine dining. Its been really fun to start building a community around the brewery in the short month we've been open. We'll be hosting a variety of Slow Food related events at the brewery in the near future, so stay tuned!
How do you see Slow Food Lake Tahoe impacting the community this year?
Our workshop series is always a hit but after taking over management of the Truckee Demonstration Garden last summer, we now have an exciting place to demonstrate and celebrate local food production. I'm looking forward to raising awareness and getting more people to the garden this summer to get their hands dirty and learn about high altitude gardening. We are also starting to be known as a resource for connecting people with local farms, ranches and other food producers, and making it easier to eat seasonally and locally in the Tahoe area is a high priority to me.
Why is it a good organization to be involved in?
Anyone who really cares about food, farming, food access and hunger, and the health of our land and water should consider becoming a member of Slow Food USA. In addition to supporting local chapters like our Lake Tahoe chapter, Slow Food USA is working aggressively at the federal and state level on so many key issues - the Farm Bill; healthy school lunch programs and school gardens; even transforming meat production in this country to a "slower" system. It is amazing what they are accomplishing on a fairly lean budget.
Vote with your dollar and join Slow Food USA today!
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