Backbone grill8/15/2023 ![]() ![]() With 3,000 borrowed dollars and a great deal of experience working in restaurants and cooking for river companies at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, they moved to Utah and opened Hell’s Backbone Grill (which was not quite a farm yet they opened with vegetable gardens and in 2005 graduated to a six-acre regenerative agriculture farm, from which they harvest literal tons of produce each season). Back in 2000, chef-owners Jen Castle and Blake Spalding fell in love with this spot, an inholding in the newly established Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the first monument of its kind and the largest in the country. This is a story about Hell’s Backbone Grill and Farm, a Snail of Approval winner located in Boulder, Utah, a remote 226-person town that’s a popular resting spot for hikers in the area and travelers from around the world. Instead, this is a story about the resilience of one geographically isolated restaurant and farm that creates a community unlike any other in rural Utah. Thankfully, that topic has been covered extensively in local and national press. This is not a story about the immense challenges facing restaurant owners and workers in 2022. They are all winners of the Snail of Approval, a national award given to businesses embracing the environment, community, employees, and people-centered values. This story is part three of our Slow and Sustainable series, which profiles food businesses that are leaning into the “clean” of Slow Food’s ethos of good, clean, and fair food for all. Each chapter has unique strengths and character that comes from local members like YOU. Some chapters emphasize education and school garden programs or supporting farmers markets and CSAs, while others focus on partnerships with community groups or fighting for good food policies. Southeast We have over 100 Slow Food USA chapters all across the country taking action to create a food system that works for them and their community. ![]() Rocky Mountain / Southwest We have over 100 Slow Food USA chapters all across the country taking action to create a food system that works for them and their community. ![]()
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