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Slow Food Farms are set to become the largest global network of farms dedicated to producing good, clean, and fair food in a way that’s rooted in agroecological principles.
Aligned with Slow Food’s philosophy that everyone deserves access to nourishing food that supports communities, honors the Earth and strengthens local economies, these farms embody the future of sustainable agriculture
Producers of peasant agriculture and sustainable production, Uganda.
Crops implemented: different types of bananas, plantain, cocoa, vanilla, coffee (Robusta), fruits such as Jack Fruits (young avocados), cassava, climbing sweet potatoes, and some aerial sweet potatoes.
Seeds: beans, corn.
Practice: agroforestry, with shade trees, forage trees, and tree crops, mulching, water retention trenches, composting and application of activated biochar.”
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