August Slow Session-Wine Tasting
Decanting Texas Wines, One sip at a time

Date: Wednesday, Aug 11th, 7:00-8:30pm
Location: Habitat Suites

August 11th will be a wine education and tasting Slow Session with Scott Collier, Rockroom Winemaking Cooperative founder and winemaker, and Mason Arnold Greenling founder and CEO.

Wine is nature’s way of preserving fruit for us to enjoy year round, so we will taste our way through wines that give us the chance to demystify what it means for a wine to be natural, organic, biodynamic, sustainable and local. Come ready to ask questions, learn, and taste.

Included in the tasting will be organic and sustainable wines available from Greenling as well as a Rockroom wine made from California certified organic grapes (rated 89 by the Pinot Report), and even a natural process wine made from 100% fresh pressed chardonnay juice with nothing added at any stage in the winemaking process.

This is a free event as the wines are being donated by Rockroom and Greenling, but donations to Slow Food Austin are encouraged and attendance will be limited to the first 35 who RSVP to Anne Hargrove

www.slowfoodaustin.org

Slow Food Austin (SFA) Farm Tours, supported by TOFGA, offer a signature opportunity to forage food items directly from area farms, in the context of an informative tour showing how and where the items were grown or produced, and introducing the people that produce them.

Goals of Tours:

• Increase understanding of the contributions area farmers make to our local food community
• Offer opportunities to sample local foods
• Increase understanding of Slow Food Austin’s goals to promote our local food culture and encourage conscious and appreciative enjoyment of it
• If possible, provide food for thought – novel discussion topics and angles on local farming

SFA is launching our farm tours with a bang – come with us on January 16 to meet Jason Kramer of Yonder Way Farm, an ambitious and exciting operation along the lines of Joel Salatin’s pastured salad bar beef farm, Polyface. Jason raises pastured pork, beef, poultry and eggs, and is completing construction of an on-farm commercial kitchen from which he plans to serve barbecued pork, sausages and other eatables. In the best farming tradition of cooperation, Jason also offers organic produce and milk from two other neighboring farms.

Yonder Way Farm [directions]
5500 Hwy 105
Brenham, TX 77833 (1 hour 45 min from Austin)

The tour carpool will leave Austin at 9am on January 16 (depature location TBD). Expect to return to Austin by 5pm.

For more information, send an email to education@slowfoodaustin.org.

Volunteer!

Contact region2@tofga.org for volunteer opportunities on tour events.

A Slow Taste of Tuscany
A Celebration and special dinner at Primizie Osteria

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7pm

Tickets ($85) include a mulit-course feast highlighting local
ingredients, an autographed copy of the book ($50 value), and a
contribution to Urban Roots. Gratuity and taxes separate.

Please RSVP at www.PrimizieAustin.com

Primizie Osteria
1000 E. 11th Street
Austin, TX
512.236.0088

Slow Food Austin reconnects people with the food they eat. Our
educational initiatives, social activities, fundraising events, and
community volunteer projects inspire respect for where food comes
from and awakens true pleasure in eating. To learn more about Slow
Food Austin and become a member visit http://www.slowfoodaustin.org