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Hand Them Down to Lift Them Up: An Heirloom Food Forum

$40.00

Join Slow Food North Louisiana at the Cultural Crossroads of Minden for our second heirloom food forum, featuring an in-depth discussion of the amazing work of the North Louisiana Seed Preservation Program at reviving local foods. The event will include a local-food focused lunch and screening of the award-winning documentary Finding Edna Lewis.

Join Slow Food North Louisiana at the Cultural Crossroads of Minden for our second heirloom food forum, featuring an in-depth discussion of the amazing work of the North Louisiana Seed Preservation Program at reviving local foods. The event will include a local-food focused lunch and screening of the award-winning documentary Finding Edna Lewis.

Slow Food North Louisiana will host its second heirloom food forum November 15 from 10 am to 2 pm, this year in partnership with Cultural Crossroads of Minden.

The event will feature the heroic efforts of the North Louisiana Seed Preservation program to track down and bring back to life regional foods believed to be extinct due to the impacts of industrial food production and budget cuts. In particular, we will hear the story of how the North Louisiana born Red-N-Sweet watermelon was not only re-discovered but is now on the Slow Food Ark of Taste! Attendees will will learn more about how to acquire and save heirloom seeds in North Louisiana.

Following the morning presentations will be a local food-focused lunch prepared by Chef Hardette Harris of Us Up North, and then a screening of the Emmy-winning documentary Finding Edna Lewis.