Education for Sustainable Living, Environmental Respect, and Celebrating the Quality of Life.

Terre Madre

     Terre Madre was the first meeting of "world food communities".  The idea of Carlo Petrini and others at SlowFood was to bring together food communities:  producers, artisans, distributors and retailers of high quality sustainably produced food ... people working together with the goal of trying to create sustainable food systems.  Over 5000 farmers from 131 different nations came together to discuss the benefits of local food systems.   The overriding message of the meeting was that small sustainable organic farms provide quality food, keep the money in the local community, and maintain the landscape, all key goals of the Environmental Sustainability Project. 

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