Events
Upcoming events
May is F.A.S.T. month, and the American Heart Association is always talking about eating healthy and so these are healthy foods and things like that. The toolkit can be used if any of your organizations are looking to recognize the month.
POP UP Produce Stands
Bonneville Transit Center
The Regional Transportation Center and the Southern Nevada Health District partnered together with REACH grant funding to continue the pop up produce stands at the Bonneville Transit Center on the first and second Tuesday of the months from 12pm to 3pm. These markets are SNAP authorized!
SLOW FOOD VEGAS + OBODO COLLECTIVE COLLABORATION
Obodo Collective | 1300 C St Las Vegas NV 89106
10:30 AM - 1 PM
Join Slow Food Vegas in collaboration with the Obodo Collective on Saturday, May 11 for a unique opportunity to engage with our local food community, learn, and contribute to sustainability efforts firsthand. Attendance is free for all ages, but we do require a reservation to attend.
You'll meet our Slow Food Vegas (SFV) and Obodo Collective teams, volunteer on the farm and enjoy a pickling demo showcasing how to turn food scraps into delicious snacks! The first 20 rsvps will receive their very own pickle jar!
Spaces are limited, so please RSVP to secure your spot. Let's come together to support our community and environment in the most delicious way possible!
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
email Keri@slowfoodvegas.org
OBODO COLLECTIVE FARM VOLUNTEERING:
For farm volunteers, we suggest the following items to ensure a fun, safe, and comfortable experience:
* Close toe shoes
* Head covering and sunglasses
* A light long sleeve shirt or arm sleeves
* Light, durable pants, loose fit pants
*Refrain from using strong perfumes or hair products
*Bring water and sports drinks of your preference
Free Marketing Training for Producers and Farmers Market Managers
In 2023, our team from the University of Nevada, Reno, Desert Farming Initiative, and Grown in Nevada (formerly Nevada Grown) visited all of the farmers markets in Nevada to learn about the marketing needs of Nevada farmers market managers and farmers. Data was compiled into a needs assessment and submitted for publication. Findings that emerged were an interest in marketing training and resources for farmers and farmers market managers, so our team developed a training series to do just that!
Please join us on January 31st, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV for an in-depth marketing training for Southern Nevada farmers and farmers market managers.
Market managers that attend will have access to free advertising and social media promotion.
Farmers that attend will pe provided free produce bags, ties, and stickers to give to customers.
Free lunch will be provided.
Please bring a laptop to the training session along with your login information for your website, social media, and Google My Business to apply marketing techniques directly to your business. If you do not have a laptop, we have free rentals available.
This event is the first in a series of 5 marketing trainings. After this first in-person event, the remainder of the trainings (1 hour each) will take place weekly on Zoom.
Eastern NV, January 17: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/772390840797?aff=oddtdtcreator
Northern NV, January 24: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/779800272607?aff=oddtdtcreator
Southern NV, January 31: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/782706876337?aff=oddtdtcreator
Slow Food Vegas Snail of Approval
Awardee Celebration
Join us as we celebrate the inaugural Slow Food Vegas Snail of Approval awardees where you'll meet the passionate makers, skilled growers, and innovative chefs living up to Slow Food's ethos of good, clean and fair food for all. Indulge in an array of delightful small bites and beverages in a relaxed cocktail-style atmosphere as we commemorate the awardees.
As the first Slow Food Vegas awardee, Chef Nicole Brisson’s Brezza will be hosting the event at her sister restaurant, Bar Zazu, in Resorts World.
Awardees include: Brezza, Yukon Pizza, Tinned Fishionado, Nevada Plants, Desert Moon Mushrooms, Sparrow + Wolf, Vesta Coffee Roasters, Monzu Italian Oven + Bar, ALT Imports
The nonrefundable tickets to this all inclusive event are $45 per person and support Slow Food Vegas, a 501(c)(3).
Join in and become a vendor at the Fall Harvest Festival!
We are looking for community agencies to join and have a complimentary table at the festival. If any organizations are interested in attending, please fill out the form here: https://form.jotform.com/232686618584167 or email Jemaima.Tagayuna@dignityhealth.org for more information at. The event will be open for everyone in the community to join.
Ika Greens
New Grocery Store opening in Mesquite this at 570 W Pioneer Boulevard.
Join the Grand Opening on November 11th!
Serving local and regional fresh produce, homemade jams, jellies, salad dressings, oil infusions and more!
Use their community kitchen to start making your own commodity foods
We are searching for volunteers in Las Vegas for our 11th annual Healthy Kids Festival on Saturday, September 30th at the Paradise Recreation Center located at 4775 S McLeod Las Vegas, NV 89121. Volunteers can sign up for the entire day or just a few hours. Please see the link below to sign up and look over the details and learn more about why we do what we do!
September is National Childhood Obesity Prevention Month! For this reason, the University of Nevada Reno Extension and Clark County Parks and Recreation invite families to come out and learn how to be healthy and active.
Our goal is to provide young children with opportunities to make healthier choices and engage in active lifestyles. Families will participate in a day full of fun while gathering valuable information and resources that are available in our community.
You are essential in helping make the festival possible! We had an outstanding event last year and are excited to make this year’s event even better! Along with the help of our volunteers, we reached over 1,000 children/adults in Clark County last year, most of whom reported living in low-income zip codes (areas of high food insecurity).
Thank you for your time and consideration. We look forward to another successful event and hope that you will volunteer with us to help support fun activities, healthy food, and childhood obesity awareness/education. Partnering together with similar goals will greatly benefit our community by creating a healthier and happier place to live!
Thank you and please share with others that might want to volunteer!
West Side Food Security Task Force
Meetings held every first Saturday of every month
The West Side Food Security Task Force meeting is held every first Saturday of every month.
We welcome and appreciate your input, suggestions and concerns as we develop a community based Task Force that will help to establish a safe and secure space for the community to have not only a voice but a mechanism for action in their community.
The group is designed to act independently, with its own mission and vision that is developed by the community and supported by other entities and organizations that have an intentional interest in a solution for the Historic Westside of Las Vegas.
We are focused on change and action, not on meetings and more meetings.
Your feedback, support, guidance, mentorship, resources and collaboration is essential to building the infrastructure for change. "Food Security" is the challenge "Securing the Food" is the solution.
There is an opportunity to make the problem the solution with wider impact and sustainability for the community. It requires a shift in thinking and a bottom up approach which means empowering the community.
