Membership

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We invite you to join the Slow Food movement!  Across the nation, and across the world, Slow Food is working hard to preserve and protect local foods and food traditions.  Slow Food is a member-based organization with 80,000 members worldwide in more than 100 countries.  In the U.S., we have 14,000 members across the country who are part of chapters called convivia, which are led by volunteer leaders.  Our convivia plan events and programs in their communities—from school gardens to dinners, film festivals to farm tours, you’ll be invited to plan and participate these initiatives.  

In addition to involvement in your convivium, your membership helps support and further the growth of national and international Slow Food programs such as Slow Food in Schools and The Ark of Taste.  Here are many of the benefits our members enjoy:

• A personal membership card, providing discounted entry and invitation to Slow Food events around the world
• A subscription to Slow, our international magazine recognized for its diverse essays, creative photography, and innovative examination of food and food culture (3 issues)
• A subscription to The Snail, Slow Food USA’s own newsletter covering news, events, and stories of interest to its members in the United States (4 issues)
• Discounts on all Slow Food publications and merchandise, including our popular Slow Food Guides
  to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco
• Invitations to local, national and international events

Our Convivium events are varied, but some coomon denominators apply: Fun people, great food, beautiful settings.		Slow Food offers opportunities to make significant contributions to the community. Here member Merryl Brown (wearing the apron) spearheaded the Montecito Union School garden project, and conducts a weekly Healthy Snacks program that offers children fun, tasty, vibrantly healthy foods.	You may learn to identify wild mushrooms at our annual hunt, or join us in making mozzarella.

Warm regards,

Laurence Hauben,
Slow Food Santa Barbara Convivium leader