A Message from Slow Food Cincinnati’s new President
Eduardo Rodriguez is president of Slow Food Cincinnati, the local chapter of Slow Food USA.
Like you, I am passionate about agriculture, local food, sustainability and human health. I joined Slow Food because of its vision to help people access good, clean and fair food, as these principles encompass my passion.
I live in Cincinnati and hope, that through Slow Food educational events, I can help neighbors learn about the sustainable, good food that is produced here.
In 2013, I established an artisan cheese-making business, My Artisano Foods. It received a Slow Food Cincinnati Snail of Approval Award in 2015.
I sourced grass-fed cow milk from local farmers to make traditional European cheeses and yogurts. My motto was to provide the community with healthy good cheeses and yogurts, and at the same time support local farmers.
Unfortunately, I had to close the business in 2021 due to COVID-19.
Despite this setback, I continue to be involved in agriculture, food and sustainability. I currently help farmers with recommendations and strategies to reduce their carbon footprint and implement sustainable agriculture practices.
In recent projects, I worked with a grass-fed dairy farmer on processes to sequester carbon in his land - despite the myth of livestock being a great source of greenhouse gasses. The way to sequester carbon on a farm is to sustainably raise livestock under grazing conditions, which is how cows live in harmony with the environment.
I also worked with an urban farm that grows produce and sells via Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs. These farmers, too, are capable of sequestering carbon in their land.
Both these farms use regenerative agriculture farming principles.
I look forward to helping more farmers to produce healthy sustainable food, and to the Cincinnati community learning more – through Slow Food - about the healthy choices they can make and what is available to them.
- Eduardo Rodriguez, president of Slow Food Cincinnati
