As you’d expect, the meeting featured local food. Ridgefield’s Full Plate Farm provided black futsu winter squash for a special Slow Food taco. La Center farm Gather and Feast provided thyme and hoja santa (Mexican pepperleaf) for a Slow Thyme cocktail.
Help the ‘insecure’
Slow Food Southwest Washington is run by volunteers, said Kim Harless, the organization’s president. The only staff member is Lynsey Horne, an AmeriCorps VISTA, who heads the organization’s Urban Abundance program, which gleans from local fruit trees. The program aims to help the 13 percent of Clark County residents who are “food insecure,” that is, lack reliable access to nutritious food, Horne said. Children are the hardest hit; 19 percent of Clark County children are deemed food insecure.
“It’s an alarming number,” Horne said. “Nobody should go hungry surrounded by the abundance we have here.”
To combat this problem, Slow Food Southwest Washington’s Urban Abundance program partners with local orchards and property owners with fruit trees. Volunteers help maintain the fruit trees, harvest the fruit and get this fresh produce to local food banks, food pantries and meal programs. In 2019, 217 volunteers harvested 8,900 pounds of fruit for the Clark County Food Bank, with 17,800 servings of fresh local food going to 40 food pantries and meal programs in Clark County.
Next year, Slow Food Southwest Washington will give a Snail Award for the first time, Harless said. The Snail Award is part of a statewide campaign to recognize people who are working to support Slow Food values. The local chapter is currently seeking nominations.
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