Fertile Ground
The Second Annual Benefit for Slow Food USA

Many thanks to those who made our online auction a wonderful success!  Thank you to the bidders, raising more than $15,000.  Thank you to our donors, your generosity gave us a fantastic and varied listing of items!  Please accept our sincerest gratitude.

• A Salt and Battery
• Alchemy Spice Company
• Angelica Kitchen
• Asheville Pizza and Brewing Company
• Aurora Mills and Farm
• Barbetta Restaurant
• Sebastian Beckwith, In Pursuit of Tea
• Berkeley Repertory Theatre
• Alyce Birchenough & Sweet Home Farm
• Les Blank & Flower Films
• Boar's Head Inn
• Eugenia Bone
• Christopher Carpenter & Lokoya Winery
• Chanterelle
• Claire's Corner Copia
• Cocoa Vino
• Count Basie Theatre
• Craftsteak
• Deborah Madison
• Peter deGarmo & Pastaworks
• Doctor Kracker
• Herb Eckhouse & La Quercia Proscuitto Americano
• Edible Brooklyn Magazine
• Judy Witts Francini & Divina Cucina
• Freddy Guys Hazelnuts
• George Street Playhouse
• Hawk and Ivy Bed and Breakfast
• Jack Johnson & the Kokua Hawaii Foundation
• L'Ecole, the Restaurant of the French Culinary Institue
• La Brea Bakery
• Tami Lax, the Old Fashioned & Harvest Restaurants
• Lenz Winery
• Robert Manning, Carolina Food Pros & Edible Low Country Magazine
• Chef Richard McCreadie & the Ritz Carlton, Bachelor Gulch
• Jennifer Medley
• Meramec Bison Farm, LLC
• Millers Hives 'N Gardens
• Tom Montague
• Marion Nestle
• Pacific Dry Goods
• Nina Planck
• Michael Pollen
• Nora Pouillon & Restaurant Nora
• Mark Rosenstein & The Market Place Restaurant
• Sacred Grounds Organic Coffee Roasters
• Scharffen Berger Chocolate
• South End Press
• Spicebust Gourmet Spices
• Stony Brook Center for Food, Wine and Culture
• Straight From the Garden
• Sweet Grass Dairy
• Barbara Swell & Native Ground Music
• Tea & Sympathy
• The Bent Spoon
• The Crazy Baker
• The Institue of Integrative Nutrition
• The Institute of Culinary Education
• The New York Philharmonic
• The State Theatre
• Addie Tomei, Savory Sojuurns
• Two Leaves and a Bud
• Unique Inns
• Ursini U.S.A.
• Sherri Brooks Vinton
• Virginia Traditions Catalogs & S. Wallace & Sons
• Wild Idea Buffalo Co
• Wood Prairie Farm
• Wusthof Trident of America
• Zingermans
• Caryl Zook