Welcome to our website - we hope you join our Catskill Mountain convivium and share our passion for local food.
We are planning a pot luck lunch on Sunday June 1st. This is for members and guests of members who are interested in joining our convivium. Use the email address at the bottom of this page to contact us if you are interested in joining.
We received a grant from Pure Catskills to put on a fall workshop called Putting It Up - Preserving the Harvest. This will be held at the Delaware County Historical Association building in Delhi in September. Stay tuned here for more details. This event is being supported by the Watershed Ag Council with funding from the NYC Department of Environmental Protection.
If you have questions in the meantime, please e-mail us. To reduce spam we've broken apart our email address. First is slow food
cats (but all combined with no spaces) and after the AT symbol type in gmail which is a dot com.
Slow Food, founded in 1986, is an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the
table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life. Slow Food educates communities about
their local and traditional foods, encourages local agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods
at risk of extinction. Slow Food U.S.A. oversees Slow Food activities in North America, including the support
and promotion of the activities of 140 local chapters, each called a convivium. Each convivium
advocates sustainability and bio-diversity through educational events and public outreach that promote
the appreciation and consumption of seasonal and local foods and the support of those who produce them.
To join, log on to the national website at www.slowfoodusa.org
and join online. Please designate the Catskills as your primary convivium. If you are currently a member and
would like to switch to the Catskills convivium, please contact the US national office at 718.260.8000 or
email info AT slowfoodusa.org.
The Catskills has a classic food history of many cold, woodland climates. Sitting from 1500 to 2500 feet above sea level,
altitude has given us a shorter growing season. Much of the food culture is based on small
livestock, wild foraged foods, and root vegetables and the methods used to preserve them over the long winters. Our moutain farms are now home to new breeds of animals and plants that survive well in our climate. It is our goal to educate those that live here about the bounty of the Catskills and to support food that is fair, good and clean.
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