Current mood:
accomplished
This New Yeas, to act, to do, is to bring the good energy, good light, of hope for human kind. wishing love and light to you all in the comming year. Just do it, support it, support the peole that push the good.
Good Solstice to you all. The three stars in Orion's Belt (Known
for at least14,000 years in 7 or 8 ancient civilizations as The Three
Kings) gradually line up with Sirius (The Brightest Star in The Eastern
Night Sky) and by the 22nd of December, the sun (The Son, The Lamb of
God, The Glory Of Heaven) appears to exhibit 0 degrees amplitude for
three days in the constellation of the Southern Cross (Crucification)
until the Kings and The Star line up to point to sunrise on the 25th of
December. The sun slowly gains amplitude daily (Resurrection, Ascension
from The Cross) until by Spring Equinox (Easter) there are more hours
of light than darkness (The Light overtakes the powers of Darkness) and
the sun (Son) returns.
About Slow Food
Founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986, Slow Food became an international
association in 1989. It now boasts 85 000 members, offices (in order of
creation) in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, USA, France, Japan and the
United Kingdom and supporters in 130 countries.
Slow Food believes in recognizing the importance of pleasure
connected to food. We should learn to enjoy the vast range of recipes
and flavors, recognize the variety of places and people growing and
producing food. We should respect the rhythms of the seasons and
conviviality. But the recipe developed by Carlo Petrini and other Slow
Food members proposes to add a new sense of responsibility to the
search for pleasure, which we all have a right to enjoy. Slow Food has
called this approach ecogastronomy. It is an attitude that combines a
respect and interest in enogastronomic culture with support for those
battling to defend food and agricultural biodiversity around the world.
Slow Food stresses the need for taste education as the best defense
against poor quality and food adulteration. It is the main way to
combat the incursion of fast food into our diets. It helps to safeguard
local cuisines, traditional products, vegetable and animal species at
risk of extinction. It supports a new model of agriculture, which is
less intensive and healthier, founded on the knowledge and know-how of
local communities. This is the only type of agriculture able to offer
prospects for development to the poorest regions on our planet.
For these reasons Slow Food is committed to safeguarding
foods, raw materials and traditional methods of cultivation and
transformation. It seeks to defend the biodiversity of cultivated and
wild varieties and protect convivial places which form a part of
cultural heritage because of to their historic, artistic or social
value.
Slow Food has a distinctive approach to these issues. The philosophy of
the movement, founded to defend gastronomic pleasure and seek a slower
and more aware pace of life, extended its focus from the virtues of
food to considering the quality of life and identity. It aims to
recognize the history and culture of every social group as it interacts
in a network of reciprocal exchange. Whether you consider a variety of
fruit or a traditional local dish, you cannot ignore its relationship
with history, material culture and the environment where it originated.
Slow Food stresses the importance for agricultural and livestock
production to maintain a balance of respect and exchange with the
surrounding ecosystem. That is why Slow Food has been defined a
movement of eco-gastronomes.
The network of over 85 000 Slow Food members is organized into local
groups — Condotte in Italy and Convivia elsewhere in the world — which,
coordinated by Convivium leaders, organize courses, tastings and
dinners, promote campaigns at local level and participate in large
international events organized by the association. More than 800 Slow
Food Convivia are active in 80 countries, including 350 Condotte in
Italy.
http://www.slowfood.ca/index.php
http://www.seeds.ca/en.php
Seeds of Diversity is Canada's Heritage Seed Program for gardeners.
http://www.cog.ca/index.htm
Canadian Organic Growers
A national membership-based education and
networking organization representing farmers,
gardeners and consumers in all provinces.