Join us for a wine tasting at Susan's Fine Wines & Spirits! Susan's Fine Wines & Spirits. Certified Sommelier Jim Stephens will introduce us to six New Mexico wines - three white and three red. Space is limited. If you are interested in joining, email us at slowfoodsantafe@gmail.com.

SOLD OUT! Let us know if you are interested and we will put you on our waiting list and a list for a possible 2nd event.

"Bonus classes" at the Santa Fe School of Cooking are a great way for locals to enjoy classes and provide feedback on new recipes. These classes are less expensive than regular classes. This sounds  like a fun activity for a group from Slow Food Santa Fe, so we're signing up! Join us on Feb 1, 10am for a 3-hr class that looks at North African influence on New Mexican cuisine. For more information and to register, click here, and please email us at slowfoodsantafe@gmail.com to let us know you're joining us.

Join us Zoom to hear a recap of our 2023 activities and discuss upcoming 2024 plans.

Monday, Sept. 18 at 6:30pm we'll be seeing the new film "Indigenize the Plate" co-presented by SAR and CCA. Filmmaker Natalie Benally (Dine') travels from New Mexico to a Quechua community in Peru to learn how they are addressing the link between food sustainability and cultural sustainability for indigenous communities. Post-film discussion with Benally and director Ernie Zahn. Buy $15 tix from SAR. and email us separately at slowfoodsantafe@gmail.com to confirm you're coming. We'll see you at CCA for the movie!

Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 6pm we'll be dining out at 315 Restaurant & Wine Bar to benefit the Santa Fe Farmers' Market Institute. Support local farmers and ranchers by attending a dinner sourced from Santa Fe Farmers Market vendors. Recognize local chef Louis Moskow who invests in local agriculture and holds high standards for his menu ingredients. Pre-fixe menu is $55 per person (a la carte and vegetarian options also available). Call 315 Restaurant at 505-986-9190 to make your reservation & let them know you're dining with Slow Food Santa Fe. Email us at slowfoodsantafe@gmail.com separately with the names of people in your party.

Explore new locales or return to some favorites by joining us for this year’s Slow Food Santa Fe Farm Tour highlighting two farms selling at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market, Ground Stone Farm in Nambé and Tesuque Pueblo Farm in Tesuque. In between the tours participants can stop at Jared Hagood's Lineage Seeds stand in the Tesuque Village Market (TVM) parking lot. Tickets available ($35)).

Slow Food Santa Fe is delighted to be partnering with the Sprouting Kitchen and Reunity Resources Farm for this hands-on cooking class. We’ll start with a tour of Reunity Resources, a beautiful farm in Santa Fe . Next, Sprouting Kitchen’s founder and owner Fallon Bader will lead us in cooking a meal entirely focused on just-harvested farm produce, after which we’ll share the meal we’ve all created together.

We were so inspired by our June interview with NOSA's Chef Graham Dodds that we decided to head up to Ojo Caliente for lunch on Sunday, July 9th (the 11:30 am seating). We've asked Chef Dodds to reserve the large indoor table for Slow Food Santa Fe. If you are interested in joining us, please let us know and sign up directly here and put "SFSF" in "add special request" section. This will be a truly Slow Food experience!

In celebration of African American History Month, we've partnered with New Mexico Healthy Soil on a virtual viewing of the documentary film Follow the Drinking Gourd directed by Shirah Dedman. This film is about the Black food justice movement, focusing on the personal power of gaining connection with our food. It communicates often touching stories of people growing urban food gardens and what the experience of growing and sharing that food with others means to them. Following the film there was be a panel moderated by Sunshine Muse, Executive Director of Black Health New Mexico and including filmmaker Shirah Dedman, Saleema Robinson, Local Agriculture Community Coordinator for the City of Albuquerque, and Shahid Mustafa, Taylor Hood Farms. If you missed this event, you can watch the film here and view the recording of the panel here.

Join us for a unique opportunity - get to know your farmers and see where and how your food is grown at our tour this year near Española. From farmers recently starting out to farmers on land that has been farmed for over 400 years, we promise a variety of delightful experiences! Join us on this self-guided tour as we visit Khalsa Family Farms in Sembrillo, The Vagabond Farmers in La Puebla, and Santa Cruz Farm and Greenhouses in Española, all within a few minutes of each other and only about 20 minutes from Santa Fe on beautiful country roads.

Slow Food Santa Fe is delighted to be partnering with the Sprouting Kitchen and Reunity Resources Farm for this very special hands-on class.. We’ll start with a tour of Reunity, a beautiful farm in Santa Fe practicing organic and regenerative agriculture. Next, Sprouting Kitchen’s founder and owner Fallon Bader will lead us in cooking a dinner entirely focused on just-harvested farm produce. Then we’ll sit down to share the meal we’ve all created together. We can’t wait!

Slow Food Santa Fe and Home Grown New Mexico are delighted to co-sponsor a tour of Green Tractor Farm in historic La Cienega near Santa Fe. We'll meet this multi-generational farming family, learn about the farm and its history, and hear about the current growing season and its challenges. Then we'll take a tour of the fields and greenhouses. Before departing we'll have an opportunity to purchase produce and flowers so bring your shopping bags!

FARM TOURS ARE BACK!

We're partnering with Home Grown New Mexico for a tour of this fabulous local Santa Fe farm practicing organic and regenerative agriculture. Reunity Resources is committed to serving the community through education and outreach and donates much of the produce to local hunger projects. The farm stand will be open as well.

Liddie Martinez has deep roots in the Española Valley. She learned about farming and food preparation from her grandmother and mother, and a great deal about the history of food in the southwest from her work on the establishment of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail. Her book “The Chile Line: Historic Northern New Mexican Recipes” (published in 2019) is 208 spiral-bound pages of wonderful stories and recipes honoring the traditions of Northern New Mexican culture. Join us for a delightful hour of interesting and illuminating conversation with Liddie. IF YOU MISSED THIS EVENT, YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT HERE.

The new documentary film GATHER tells the story about resilience and the renaissance of Native food systems. The film follows members of four different tribes as they use their individual interests to work with community members to reclaim or preserve their cultural traditions. Join Slow Food Santa Fe to watch this film (1 hr 14 min) via Virtual Cinema which enables us to watch together online. Learn more about GATHER, which is co-produced by First Nations Development Institute, at www.nativefoodsystems.org.

We love her many wonderful cookbooks and can’t wait to read her new memoir An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables (to be published Nov 10th). Join Slow Food Santa Fe for an online conversation with award-winning food writer, chef, cooking teacher and founder of the local Slow Food Santa Fe chapter Deborah Madison and learn more about her life, and with it the rise of vegetable-centric cooking for so many. IF YOU MISSED THIS EVENT, YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT HERE.

Join Slow Food Santa Fe for a wonderful (virtual) opportunity to learn from local expert Ellen Zachos about foraging for food and drink in our own backyards. We’ll start by toasting each other with a local, seasonal beverage (illustrated recipe pdf to be provided in advance), then explore the flavors that surround us right here in Santa Fe. Plants (and mushrooms!) will include wild natives and invasives, as well as some traditional garden ornamentals that may surprise you with their wonderful flavors. Visit Ellen’s website for more on her many books, blogs, recipes and classes. Tickets for this event ($25).

Join Slow Food Santa Fe for a morning of mushroom foraging at the Santa Fe Ski Basin with the New Mexico Mycological Society. Register in advance via Eventbrite. Cost is $25 per person (plus Eventbrite handling fee). We’ve modified this event in light of the COVID pandemic by eliminating the “cook and taste” portion of the event and following COVID-safe practices such as breaking up into small groups and wearing masks.

POSTPONED. Each year Slow Food Santa Fe seeks to partner with local pueblo communities to learn more about indigenous foods and traditions. This year we are incredibly fortunate to be invited by Chef Ray Naranjo for lunch at a private home in Santa Clara Pueblo. Chef Ray is of Native American roots from both the Ancient Puebloans of the Southwest and of the Three Fire Tribes of the Great Lakes. He will prepare a meal for us based on traditional foods and cooking traditions of Tewa Pueblo culture, with emphasis on local foraged foods and meats. Tickets ($65).

Each year Slow Food Santa Fe partners with a local business to highlight their products and production methods. This year we are partnering with Tumbleroot in Santa Fe, a place to gather with friends, family and community for a shared experience of locally crafted beer, organic spirits, hand-crafted cocktails, responsibly sourced food. We will tour the production facilities, both the brewery and distillery, enjoy tastings of brews and spirits, accompanied by tiny bites provided by Tumbleroots’ own chef, and have an opportunity to converse directly with the brewers and distillers. Tickets are $25.

Join us for this interactive demonstration class especially designed for Slow Food Santa Fe at the Santa Fe School of Cooking with instructor Chef Lois Ellen Frank. Participants will explore chile's unique culinary history, taste different varieties, discuss particular uses of different chiles, and see if we can taste the difference between Northern New Mexican chiles and those grown down south. We will prepare and sample different red and green chile sauces. Click here for SFUSA story on this event.

Join Slow Food Santa Fe for a self-guided tour of 3 Dixon farms (Stan Crawford’s El Bosque Garlic Farm, Loretta Sandoval’s Zulu’s Petals Organic Farm, Mesa Ruiz’s La Mesa Organic Farms), 2 wineries (La Chiripada, Vivac), and the Seed Library at the Embudo Valley Library & Community Center. Stop for lunch or snacks at the nearby Dixon Coop and Zuly’s Café, and visit the Dixon Farmers Market, open 3:30-6:30 pm. Dixon NM is a beautiful 50 minute drive north of Santa Fe. Click here for story in Santa Fe New Mexican.

Join Slow Food Santa Fe for an afternoon with the Los Luceros Grain Team.  Learn about this exciting new venture taking place at the historic Los Luceros Ranch near Alcalde, NM where the team is growing ancient, heirloom and local grains such as Sonoran White and Turkey Red wheat, Opopeo amaranth, and Tibetan Purple barley.  In addition to learning about the unique properties and potential benefits of these grains to human and environmental health, the afternoon will include the opportunity to learn about growing, harvesting, cleaning, milling, and baking these grains as well as sampling them baked into delicious and naturally leavened breads. This event will take place at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 108 Cathedral Place, (second floor), Santa Fe.

Join Slow Food Santa Fe and Steve & Jane Darland to hear the story of the Darland's journey to create the most authentic balsamic vinegar in the U.S., right here in New Mexico (!) on a small organic farm in the village of Monticello, 160 miles south of Albuquerque. Described as "rare and wonderful” by Ruth Reichl, former editor of Gourmet and NY Times food writer, this Italian-style classic made with estate-grown, organic grapes, aged in rare wood casks from Italy would “rival anything from Modena” according to Brett Ottolenghi, proprietor of Artisanal Foods in Las Vegas NV.  In addition to hearing the Darland’s very Slow Food approach to producing outstanding balsamic vinegar, we will have the opportunity to taste and purchase – at cost – these unique products. Santa Fe School of Cooking, 125 N Guadalupe St, Santa Fe.

Chef Ray Naranjo, of Santa Clara Pueblo, will prepare a delicious lunch based on the traditional foods and cooking traditions of the Pueblo culture. Roxanne Swentzell, renowned artist and co-author of The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook: Whole Food of our Ancestors, will present on Pueblo culinary traditions.

Tower Gallery at the Poeh Cultural Center, Pojoaque NM.

Join Slow Food Santa Fe in the Gruet tasting room at the Hotel St. Francis, Santa Fe, for a Grand Reserve Tasting with a Level 1 sommelier! We will each sample a flight of four different champagne-method sparkling wines, and experience a "deep dive" into Gruet's wines, their histories and characteristics. Gruet sparkling wines include Blanc de Noirs, Blanc de Blancs, Rose, Brut and Demi-Sec.

Who doesn't love chocolate? Join Slow Food Santa Fe at CACAO, and learn to distinguish craft chocolate from mass market chocolate and why and how to choose it. Learn a little hands-on chocolate history. We will be making chocolate drinks from scratch and everybody can customize their own drink: sweet, spicy or pure chocolate. We will also have a factory tour and learn the entire process from raw beans to chocolate bars, and become acquainted with the products produced and sold by CACAO.  And, of course, we will have time to browse the retail selection of chocolates from other high-quality manufacturers  and incredibly beautiful chocolate creations produced at CACAO.

Almaz Tesfamichael is from Ethiopia and is a wonderful, experienced cook who has agreed to share her expertise with us. The menu for the class includes chicken with turmeric, garlic, and onion; leg of lamb Berbere with spices; kale with garlic and onion; injera, freshly roasted Ethiopian green coffee, a surprise dessert and wine.