HOOTENANNY – Dance Yourself Silly March 11

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FOOT STOMPIN’ BOOT SLAPPIN’ GOOD TIME
Hootenanny Barn Dance Benefit
PUT ON YOUR DANCING SHOES TO SUPPORT TEENS GROWING FOOD FOR NEW ORLEANS!

Grow Dat Youth Farm | 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, New Orleans, LA 70124 | T. 504 300 1132

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Join your neighbors on Friday, March 11, from 6:30-10 PM for the Hootenanny, a barn dance benefit for Grow Dat Youth Farm!

 

Party with Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys, Lost in the Holler and My Wife’s Hat!

Local musicians will transform the party into a true hoedown and inspire revelers to kick up their heels. The event will feature square dancing with caller Dan Wally Baker and zydeco lessons with Harold Bernard. Premier local restaurants and chefs will cook up delightful small plates for the event, and there will be unlimited craft cocktails and ice cold beer.

This year, the Hootenanny is on the farm, rain or shine! Come on out and join us for dancing, dining, and drinking under the Louisiana night sky!

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The mission of Grow Dat Youth Farm is to nurture a diverse group of young leaders through the meaningful work of growing food.

At GROW DAT farm people collaboratively to produce healthy food for local residents and to inspire youth and adults to create personal, social and environmental change in their own communities. Grow Dat is a place where people from different backgrounds and disciplines come together in research and practice to support public health, local economies and a sustainable food system in South Louisiana.

Grow Dat Farm Shares

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2015 Grow Dat Farm Shares

Become a Grow Dat Farm Share Member Today!

What are Grow Dat Farm Shares?
In its second year, the Grow Dat Farm Share program is an opportunity for customers to enjoy chemical-free, fresh produce while investing in our farm and youth leadership program. Farm Shares are a form of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), a way for the community to become “member-investors” who receive a weekly portion of the farm’s harvest during the growing season. For decades, CSAs have supported small-scale farmers and strengthened local food systems. Members experience the seasonal fluctuations of the farm’s produce, a process that teaches consumers more about the natural cycles of food production. Farms benefit by receiving upfront, steady income from members, minimizing some of the risks that come with small-scale farming. At Grow Dat, all Farm Share proceeds support our youth program, which nurtures the leadership skills of teenagers employed in the meaningful work of growing healthy food.

How Does It Work?
Farm Shares run for 20 weeks, from January 21 – June 20. Members are responsible for picking up their weekly produce box at our farm site in City Park on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) or Saturday mornings (9am-12pm); members may choose pickup day while availability lasts. (Note: Farm Shares will be suspended during the two weeks of Mardi Gras, Feb 11 – 21 and resume Feb. 25). If you or a friend can’t pick-up your box for a given week, you have the option of donating that week’s share to Grow Dat youth and their families.

Your share will consist of a variety of vegetables and herbs sustainably grown on our farm and will change on a weekly basis. One box will generally supply a family of five for a week. Each week share members receive a box of produce that will regularly include what we like to call “the base of the box:” 1) a ¼ lb. bag of our signature salad mix, 2) a ¼ lb. bag of arugula, 3) one bunch of kale, 3) one bunch of chard OR collards (farmer’s choice based on availability) and 4) fresh herbs. In addition to the weekly “base,” you will receive seasonal herbs and vegetables including basil, beets, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, eggplant, beans, leek, mustards, green onions, hot peppers, potatoes, radishes, sugar snap peas, squash, cherry tomatoes, tat soi, turnips and zucchini and more!

Membership and Payment:
The cost of a 2015 Farm Share is $500 ($25 per box value). Shares and pickup-dates are allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis. To learn more about becoming a member-investor in our farm, click below a more detailed description of pickup procedures, crop availability timeline, payment procedures and farmer/member commitments. Once you have thoroughly read through this information, you may register, pay, and become a member! We’re thrilled to share our harvest with you in 2015!

CLICK to Learn More and Purchase your Farm Share today!

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GROW DAT in Architectural Record

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The program teaches high-school students to grow–and cook–fresh produce, and in March it added the Go Dat mobile farmstand, a converted boat trailer with a sail-like canvas roof that folds down for transit.

More info at http://archrecord.construction.com/features/critique/2013/1307-Urban-Oases.asp

At Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans, high-school students not only tend 4 acres of crops in City Park, they also learn how to cook with them. To create the farm, architecture students from the Tulane City Center–the design-build program at the Tulane School of Architecture–converted a disused golf course damaged by Hurricane Katrina into agricultural land, which began production in January 2012, and built an adjacent education pavilion. With each crop, the high-school students learn several recipes, explains Emilie Taylor, design-build manager for the project. “Many students are in single-parent households, and often end up cooking for the family,” she says. “If we can give them skills and access to food, they’ll cook better for their siblings.”

In March, Grow Dat began hitting the road, too. For his thesis project, Tulane master’s sstudent Justin Siragusa created a mobile farmstand from a modified boat trailer. That evolution underscores the potential for these types of interventions to build on one another. “It’s such a simple idea,” says Darnstadt. “You can grow tomatoes in the garden, then sell them to a mobile market, and you see this whole small-scale network of neighborhood enterprises form around food.” Narrative above courtesy Architectural Record. More at:
http://archrecord.construction.com/features/critique/2013/1307-Urban-Oases.asp

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An opportunity for adults interested in advancing their knowledge and skills in sustainable urban agriculture through hands-on experience, instruction and support from mentor farmers.
More info in the link:
http://growdatyouthfarm.org/2013/07/09/announcing-our-adult-farm-internship-program/
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The Grow Dat Youth Farm’s mission is to nurture a diverse group of young leaders through the meaningful work of growing food.

You may have seen this sign on the way to the dog park in City Park. Click on the sign to learn more about this program.

New Orleans Tomato Company

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UPDATE: July 1, 2013

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June 28, 2013. Products from the New Orleans Tomato Company are now available at Swirl on Ponce de Leon right off Esplanade. This should be perfect for all our Faubourg St. John friends. Thanks Beth

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tomatocompanyUPDATE: JUNE 22, 2013. By William Mauk–> Hi guys. So here is the grand update. We of course have our new logo, however it is at Lakeside Photo getting digitalized so the sauce we have made now will have the old logo on them. Those labels will arrive Monday. We’ll be making our sauce available for sale starting this Tuesday. I would like to remind people that there are only 9 ingredients in our pasta sauce. Creole tomatoes, caramelized onions, basil, oregano, red wine, extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. You will not find a more healthy or better tasting sauce. Back to our update. We found a manufacturing facility so we can move out of our house lol. We are now registered with the FDA, and have sent product to NC university for testing. This will give us our nutrition facts and move us one step towards to grocery stores. Now we’re asking for ideas from our friends. We will continue to cook, and would like our clever friends come up with clever ways for us to sell our sauce… did I mention its delicious, nutritious and for sale starting Tuesday?!
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June 7, 2013
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New Orleans Tomato Company: Locally Owned, Locally Grown

New Orleans Tomato Company will be launching their Original Pasta Sauce in July, 2013 once they have bottled 500 units. Their cane sugar ketchup will be released about a month after that and then their salsa and tomato basil soup will be offered in the Fall. New Orleans Tomato Company will be hitting the farmers markets once they’ve completed bottling of their pasta sauce, again which will be available in July. William Mauk is a chef by trade. He has strict sanitation practices in the kitchen, and as an urban farmer, grows enough tomatoes for all these products. Currently, New Orleans Tomato Company gets its tomatoes from Becnel Farms right here in Louisiana. All the herbs are grown by New Orleans Tomato Company.

Stay tuned to FSJNAdotORG for more about the New Orleans Tomato Company.

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New Orleans Tomato Company: Locally Owned, Locally Grown

Go Eat at the GROW DAT Farm

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The Grow Dat farm in City Park (by the underpass at I-610) is an interesting project and will give us a chance to enjoy the cooking of Faubourg St john resident Gary Granata. Gary also
serves as president of local Slow Food Initiative. Go eat Friday, March 8, at the nonprofit urban farm for local high school students, with music, art and a menu with lighter options alongside the fried fish. More info at:
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2013/02/28/a-nontraditional-lenten-fish-fry-on-tap-at-grow-dat-youth-farm

article below by Ian McNulty
The Lenten fish fry is a long-running tradition in New Orleans, but not all of these events follow a traditional script. For instance, one coming up next Friday, March 8, won’t be held at a church but rather at a nonprofit urban farm for local high school students, with music, art and a menu with lighter options alongside the fried fish.
The local/healthy food advocate Slow Food New Orleans is hosting this one-night fish fry at Grow Dat Youth Farm, a youth development program operated from City Park with acres of crops and a facility built from stacked, repurposed shipping containers.

The chef Don Boyd, founder of the nonprofit Café Hope, and local Slow Food chapter president Gary Granata are preparing the food along with Moscow 57, a New York entertainment company founded by Ellen Kaye, whose family ran the legendary Russian Tea Room in Manhattan for close to 50 years. Granata and Kaye have been collaborating on pop-up food, music and art events and decided to join forces for a one-of-a-kind fish fry at Grow Dat.

Guests can either buy individual dishes at various stations set up around Grow Dat’s campus or partake in a seated meal served in courses at a “captain’s table” on a balcony overlooking the scene. The menu includes a garden salad, fried catfish over coleslaw, vegetarian gumbo z’herbes, pistachio shrimp kebabs, vegetable kebabs and fish kebabs, sour cherry rice, rose petal and mint yogurt and gelato and sorbetto from La Divina Gelateria. Beer and wine will be for sale.

The night is also billed as an “urban salon” with singer/songwriter Kayte Grace, the Moscow 57 Band, artists including Emilie Rhys and local writer Elsa Hahne, author of the new cookbook “The Gravy—In the Kitchen with New Orleans Musicians,” all participating in the event.
Admission is $5 (free for Slow Food members), and individual food tickets are $5 each. The seated meal is $50. The fish fry is from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2013/02/28/a-nontraditional-lenten-fish-fry-on-tap-at-grow-dat-youth-farm

Fresh from the Farm at SWIRL

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by Alexander Hancock at nola.eater.com

Starting February 11, fans of the weekly produce box from Hollygrove Market & Farm can now pick it up at Swirl Wines near the Fair Grounds. Pickup is Saturdays between 4-6, during which time chef Richard Papier will be cooking dishes with the box’s contents. The shop will offer half-priced glasses of wine to pair with those dishes. [EaterWire]

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http://nola.eater.com/archives/2012/01/31/hollygroveswirl-synergy-biblethumping-banned-on-bourbon-and-more.php