Slow Food Portland is pleased to be a sponsor of Cultivating Community’s 2009 Boyd Street Bash.The Boyd Street Bash is coming this Sunday, July 19 from noon to 2 pm. A celebration of sustainable cities at our Boyd Street Urban Farm! There will be music, crafts, kids’ activities, a raspberry bake-off, yummy food, and an urban sustainability fair. Bring the family!Location: 40 Boyd Street, PortlandCultivating Community need volunteers to help with set-up (9:30-noon), during the event (noon-2) and for clean-up (2-3:30). Contact Hilary Burgin at hnburgin@gmail.com if you can help.

David Buchanan has an article in the current Slow Food USA newsletter about his efforts to reintroduce to New England the Marshall strawberry, one of the ten most endangered foods on the Slow Food Raft list.  Until now the Marshall, once known as the finest eating strawberry in America, existed only in two locations in the Pacific Northwest. Thanks to David, this little gem is growing again in New England, right here in Portland!