Slow Food Nation '08

Fort Mason Center | Included with Taste Pavilions Ticket: $45 - 65 | Saturday, August 30; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm | Sunday, August 31; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm

The origin of our food can be as close as our own backyards: bees and fruit trees are part of the sound and color of daily life, and they produce some of our most cherished and evocative foods. At the Honey & Jam Pavilion, beehive displays accompanied tastes of wildflower honeys gathered by local beekeepers and varietals from national apiaries. Jam-makers presented house-made preserves crafted from berries, stone fruit, citrus, wild foods, figs, sweet potatoes, red peppers and more, and taught visitors the history of jam-making and how to do it at home. Both honey and jam were available in pairings with bread, pastry and cheese.

Featured honey producers:

•    Ames Farm, Water Town, MN
•    Beekind, Sebastopol, CA
•    Bees Needs, Newsday, NY
•    Big Sky Honey Farm, Forsyth, MT
•    Chicago Honey Co-Op, Chicago, IL
•    Hector’s Honeys, Fulton, CA
•    Knightsen Honey Co., Brentwood, CA
•    Marshall’s Honey, American Canyon, CA
•    Mockingbird Meadows, Marysville, OH
•    Tropical Traders Foods, Oakland, CA

Featured jam-makers:

•    Alaska Wild Harvest, Palmer, AK
•    Blue Chair Fruit, Alameda, CA
•    Dry Creek Peach & Produce, Healdsburg, CA
•    Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA
•    High Desert Foods, Durango, CO
•    June Taylor Co., Berkeley, CA
•    Lagier Ranches, Escalon, CA
•    Louou’s Garden, Escalon, CA
•    Miette Patisserie & Confisserie, San Francisco, CA
•    Patisserie Angelica, Sebastopol, CA
•    Point Reyes Preserves, Point Reyes, CA
•    Sensuous Farms, Sonoma County, CA
•    We Love Jam, San Francisco, CA
•    Ono Farms, Hana, Maui, HI
•    Orchard at Flathead Lake, Bigfork, MT
•    Ayers Creek, Gaston, OR
•    Queener Fruit Farm, Scio, OR