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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
2020 Eat Local Challenge : March Newsletter
Another February has come and gone and with it we say farewell to another Mardi Gras. And with the help of Punxsutawney Phil, we know spring will come soon this year!
If you've been lucky enough to have some crawfish this year, you know the season is off to a hot start! Prices are low for this early on and sizes are nice.
It's great to see the sides that are chosen to be thrown into the crawfish boil. Traditional sides include potatoes, corn, sausage and lemon (all options you can buy locally!) while some have fun with it and add pineapples, edamame, and artichokes. What are your favorite sides to add to crawfish boils? Send us photos and we'll post them!
You can always get ideas by viewing our bar and restaurant guide on the website by clicking here.
Left, Every Thursday Marjie's Grill offers delicious chili butter crawfish (credit: @marjiesgrill). Right, Bevi Seafood Company offers traditional boiled crawfish (and other seafood!) as well as live crawfish by the pound along with their usual sandwich menu (credit: @beviseafoodco).
The National Good Food Network Conference will be held in New Orleans this year March 10-13 at the Intercontinental Hotel.
Bean Madness is a March Madness style competition for the best red beans in town.
Fill out your own bracket by March 10! Winner receives gifts from the Krewe of Red Beans, Camellia Beans, and gets to chose which charity receives entry fee donations.
Has the Eat Local Challenge had a profound impact on the way you view the local food system? Maybe it's changed the way you make conscious food purchases or informed you about a farmer or market you didn't know prior?
We want to hear from you!
Send us an email including your business/your name and let us know how the challenge has helped you and we'll include it in the Reviews and Impact section on our website!
The Eat Local Challenge is a program of the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee. NOLA FPAC is a broad-based coalition of organizations, businesses and individuals shaping public policy to improve equity, opportunity, and collaboration in our local food system.
Click here to join the NOLA FPAC bimonthly newsletter to stay up to date on happenings, policy alerts, and more!
Begin planting warm-season vegetables, such as tomatoes and bell peppers (use transplants for these two), cucumbers, corn, snap beans, mirliton and squash.
Begin to plant warm-season bedding plants, such as angelonia, marigolds, zinnias, blue daze, pentas, celosia, salvia, portulaca, purslane, melampodium and others.
Fertilize roses and other shrubs now. Purchase roses in containers and plant this month.
Warmer temperatures and active growth make watering increasingly important if regular rainfall does not occur. New plantings need the most attention, since they are more vulnerable until they have a chance to grow a strong root system.
Fertilize lawns the last week in March or early April using a lawn fertilizer or weed and feed (fertilizer plus weed killer).
(Gardening tips provided by Dan Gill of New Orleans Botanical Gardens.)
The challenge will remain free to participants in 2020! We've put together a sponsor package for anyone interested. Sponsors help keep the challenge free for participants! There are options to host or sponsor a workshop promoting your service or product, sponsoring a local popup for any of our events, providing snacks for the Urban Farm Bike Ride, prizes for Local Foods Bingo or Trivia, and much more!
Are you interested in hosting a workshop featuring your product or an event at your place of business? We'd love to curate an event around a particular skill or product for you!
Contact us and we can chat about hosting or showcasing an event during the Eat Local Challenge this June or if you are interested in being our monthly Eat Local Challenge meet-up destination.
2020 is our ten year anniversary! This year is a big one and the calendar is sure to fill up soon, so get in touch soon!
View the bars and restaurants that have stepped up and committed to sourcing local products by clicking here.
Is your establishment missing from the list? Reach out to us and let us know so we can add it!
Crescent City Farmers Market is a go-to source to keep eating local year round!
Click here to view the weekly market locations and to see where to pick up CSA boxes throughout the year.
Click here to download the app to track everything market related right from your phone!
The Challenge remains free, but your donations allow us to grow and make June as successful as possible. This year is our 10th anniversary and we are hoping to make Eat Local bigger and better than ever! Please consider a donation of any size.
Got a great local recipe? Share it with us for inclusion in our newsletter, facebook page, or on the website!
Tip of the day:Check labels. Seek out not only produce but bread, jams, grains and other products that are grown or produced near you. Many grocery stores and even restaurants are using signs or labels to let you know where your food is sourced, making it easier for you to choose the products that are made right in your neighborhood!
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