Slow Food Honored By City

The City of Temecula is honoring Slow Food Temecula Valley with a proclamation for their School Garden program.  

The proclamation will be accepted by President of Slow Food Temecula Valley, Leah Di Bernardo tonight at the Temecula City Council meeting.  

Over 20 local schools are participating in the School Gardens program where volunteers provide manpower to create gardens with organic edible plants. The purpose is to teach children to grow, prepare and eat their own foods in a healthy and an environmentally sustainable manner.  

Slow Food volunteers provide support to teachers by helping to develop the curriculum and working with local farmers on best practices. Temecula Valley has one of the largest collections of school gardens in a district in the nation. “By growing academic and edible gardens in schools, then learning how to cook the food they grow, children have a connection to the land, family heritage and to their own health and well-being,” says Di Bernardo.   

The mission of Slow Food is to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, encourage knowing where food is grown, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.