The inaugural Slow Food Nation may be finished, but everyone can still get involved in the movement to ensure that we’re satisfying everyone’s right to enjoy good, clean and fair food.

Go Slow. Our suggestions for easy ways to “go slow” in your everyday life.

Join Slow Food USA. Add your voice to those of the more than 18,000 people who are committed to fixing our broken food system. Slow Food Nation is a subsidiary of Slow Food USA.

Sign the Food Declaration. FoodDeclaration.org is an online petition asking policymakers to reform federal food policy according to twelve principles of a healthy food and agriculture system. The Food Declaration was launched at Slow Food Nation 2008.

Organize an Eat-In. An Eat-In is a group of people gathering in a public space in order to share a home-cooked meal. The first Eat-In took place at Slow Food Nation 2008 and has inspired others to organize their own Eat-Ins in communities across the nation.

Read Civil Eats, a collaborative blog about issues of food policy, the culture of eating and the pleasures of the table. Civil Eats continues the blog that was hosted on slowfoodnation.org prior to the event.

Plant a Victory Garden. Victory Gardens 2008+ works with San Francisco residents to turn unused urban land into productive organic vegetable gardens. Victory Gardens 2008+ collaborated with Slow Food Nation to plant the Victory Garden in front of City Hall, the materials from which were donated to Project Homeless Connect to help found a skills-training and healing garden for San Francisco’s homeless residents.

Go Slow

The easiest way to get involved is to “vote” for healthy food and farms with your dollars and the decisions you make every day. To start, you can:

Get cooking.

Eat together.

Pack a bag lunch.

Conserve, compost and recycle.

Drink unbottled water.

Eat seasonally.

Buy local.

Buy organic.

Plant a kitchen garden.

Avoid genetically modified food.

Learn your region’s food story.

Try making things from scratch.

Meet your farmer(s).

Talk food politics.

Teach children what you know.