Slow Food East Bay

Welcome to Slow Food East Bay!

We are in the midst of some reinvention — of our website, of our leadership team, and of our role in the world of food in San Francisco’s East Bay. Please excuse the ‘construction dust’ around here!

SFEB is a the local chapter of Slow Food, an international organization focused on the promotion and support of Good, Clean and Fair Food. We strive to connect people with their local food communities — whether that be by working on community gardens in urban areas, visiting & purchasing food at local farmers markets, supporting legislation that protects our food sources, learning new (old!) kitchen skills such as food preservation, or just sitting down to a potluck meal and enjoying food and wine with other like-minded folks.

Feel free to peruse the information here, or contact us if you’d like to learn more or get involved.

We look forward to meeting you soon over a plate of good, fresh, local, seasonal and yummy food!

The Slow Food East Bay Team

Savoring Spring! Potlucks April 28th
Once again, a few supremely generous folks have stepped forward and agreed to open their homes to Slow Food East Bay members for our quarterly...read more
Save Berkeley Public Schools' Garden & Cooking Programs!
Funds for Berkeley schools' food and nutrition programs are being cut, and concerned parties from the community and school district are banding together to try...read more
Host a Slow Food Potluck Sunday April 28th
Breaking News: We've pushed these off to Sunday April 28th. Stay tuned for locations and sign ups! Quarterly potluck time! Who wants to step forward and...read more

who we are

Slow Food East Bay (formerly Slow Food Berkeley) is the East Bay (Northern CA) chapter of Slow Food. We''re one of over 210 chapters in the U.S. operating within the network of the national non-profit organization Slow Food USA.

Slow Food East Bay''s leaders are volunteers who organize programs that bring Slow Food''s values to our community. We are supported by fundraising and, in small part, by the dues-paying members of Slow Food. We believe that everyone, dues-paying or not, can get involved in the healthy food and agriculture movement. With diabetes and obesity ruining our nation''s health and with climate change and environmental injustice worsening, we can''t afford to ignore the consequences of the way we grow, distribute and eat food.

get involved

We believe that every one of us has a right to enjoy good, clean and fair food and that every one of us can be a "food activist," especially in our everyday lives. You don''t have to attend meetings or sit in trees to claim a stake in the food system: food activists are people who cook, garden, share meals, meet their farmers and food producers, cooperate and invite new and old friends to come sit down at their table.

Slow Food is a grassroots non-profit supported by members who pay annual dues. There are nearly 400 dues-paying members in East Bay and over 15,000 in the U.S. You should become a Slow Food member for the same reason you would attend a march: because you believe in the cause. In Slow Food East Bay, the benefits of membership are discounts to events, a seat at the annual members'' potluck and a subscription to Slow Food''s print journal, The Snail.