It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Summer | June 17, 2019
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Fresh & Local:It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Summer
We’re more than halfway through this year’s Eat Local Challenge, y’all, and we’re loving every minute! The ELC encourages New Orleanians to eat only what is grown, caught, or foraged within 200 miles for the month of June. Alongside the food portion of the challenge are a variety of fun events to celebrate local food.
At CCFM, we are honoring the Eat Local Challenge by holding special activities every Saturday at the CBD market. So far we have made homemade ice cream using Country Girls Creamery creamline milk and fresh J&D blueberries, used finger paint and corn, okra, and potatoes to make veggie stamp art, and voted on our favorite dipping sauces for Louisiana’s freshest Creole tomatoes. In the coming weeks you can expect a farmer story time, summer spring rolls, a market scavenger hunt, and a book signing with Liz Williams of her new book Unique Eats and Eateries of New Orleans.
Learn more about the Eat Local Challenge and sign up (for FREE), and we’ll see you at the market for fun activities soon!
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Picks of the Week:Stop and Smell the Flowers
Humans of the Market
“My grandma and my grandaddy, they had a house. My grandma has 12 kids. I was one of the first grandbabies, and I was the first little boy. My grandaddy, all he did was stay in the fields so I just rode along with him on the tractor as a little baby, in and out of the field on the back of the truck. As I got older, and I got into school, I forgot all about the farm. I started playing basketball and football. Eventually I came back to it after I graduated. Over the years, my grandfather passed, and that’s when it really got me away from it, but my uncle kept it going. He’s the reason this all is here. I’ve been in Oklahoma, all over the world pretty much. I’ve worked in North Dakota, but I eventually came back home three years ago. I’ve been doing this the past three years, but really I’ve been doing it my whole life. My uncle passed and left everything to me, so I’ve really got to hold it in the road… I got girls, daughters, so I spend a lot of time around the house, riding four wheelers with my daughters, mud rising. I like to play in the dirt. I’m a country boy; I keep it country. My baby girl is probably gonna be the only one who wants to farm. I’ve got one in New Orleans. She’s going to school at Tulane, and I know that’s not something that’s in her genes, but my baby girl loves everything. She’s five, and she knows what eggplant is, what bell pepper is, even what cilantro is. She wants to do everything, cut the watermelon and pick the corn. You know, she’s in tune with it.”
- Terrance Travis,
Indian Springs Farmers Associations |
Pop-Up Farmers Market
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Now Recruiting
In partnership with Serve Louisiana, Market Umbrella is currently recruiting for an AmeriCorps member to serve as our Program Outreach and Community Awareness Coordinator. Corps Members serve full time for 11 months starting September 1st. Benefits include a living allowance of $14,000, an education award of $6,095, health insurance, student loan forbearance, child care reimbursement, in-depth personal and professional development, and valuable networking opportunities. For more information and to apply, visit servelouisiana.org and apply by June 30th.
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Congrats, Margee!
Congratulations to one of our own! This week, Gambit released their 40 Under 40 in New Orleans, and we were delighted to see many familiar faces including vendor Marguerite Green of Sprout NOLA. Marguerite, better known as Margee, is an environmental educator, urban farmer, community partner at the Refresh Farmers Market, a farm to school collaborator of Market Umbrella’s, and in the running for Commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Sprout NOLA is on summer break, but you can find them at the Thursday, Mid-City market in the Spring and Fall with beautiful flowers, naturally grown veg, and happy smiles.
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Vendor of the Week:
Cherry Creek Orchards
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Tuesday’s Green Plate Special:Kinoko
Kinoko is a sushi pop up that focuses on plant-based sushi and Japanese cuisine. Chef Kelseay Dukae offers a creative and healthy take on sushi, using ingredients such as jackfruit for “sneauxcrab” for her spin on the traditional crunchy roll. Most recently, she was a contestant on the Fox Network show Masterchef, owned a health food concept and ran a sushi bar here in the city and is now back to curating pop ups. Kinoko translates to mushroom in Japanese, so expect this mushroom lover to present an interesting twist on mushrooms and sushi!
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Recipe of the Week:Watermelon and Cucumber Salad
For the perfect dish to beat the summer heat, try out this simple watermelon and cucumber salad from Dinner at the Zoo. Keep it local by purchasing all the ingredients from the market, like juicy watermelon from Indian Springs Farmers Association and fresh goat cheese feta from Brown Hat Dairy or G&M Farms.
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