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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FOOT STOMPIN BOOT SLAPPIN GOOD TIME

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Hootenanny Barn Dance Benefit

Put on your dancing shoes to support teens growing food for New Orleans!

Tickets on sale now!

Thursday, April 17, 7-10pm at The Grow Dat Youth FarmYou can support the young adults who food for New Orleans on our farm by joining us for the Grow Dat Hootenanny. Proceeds from this barn dance benefit will help us employ 40 teenagers to grow 10,000 pounds of food this year!
What:  Hootenanny featuring Bruce ‘Sunpie’ Barnes & the Louisiana Sunspots and the Small Batch String Band.  Square dancing led by caller Nathan Harrison will kick off an evening of revelry on the farm.Premier local restaurants dishing up delightful small plates for the event include Mondo, Dante’s Kitchen, Pagoda Cafe, St. James Cheese Company, Gary Granata of Slow Food NOLA, and Cafe NOMA. And don’t forget unlimited craft cocktails and ice cold beer brought to you by amazing bartenders from the Barman’s Fund!
When and Where:  Thursday, April 17, 7-10 pm
On our farm! 150 Zachary Taylor Drive in City Park between Pan Am Stadium and NOLA Bark dog park. Parking is available to just West of our Eco Campus.
Details:  $35 sliding scale entry to dance the night away.
$35.00 ($40 at the door) – includes cocktails, beer, music, dancing, small plates
$50.00 ($55 at the door) – includes cocktails, beer, music, dancing, small plates AND a $10 coupon to the weekly Grow Dat Farm Stand
$100 ($105 at the door) –  includes cocktails, beer, music, dancing, small plates, AND an organic cotton Grow Dat tshirt, AND a $20 coupon to the weekly Grow Dat Farm Stand
*All proceeds benefit local teens growing food for New OrleansSponsored by Slow Food NOLA, IBERIABANK, Massey’s Outfitters, Entergy, NOLA Aikido, and Home Depot.

Purchase tickets now!A rollicking good time will be had by all! (Our staff are more than willing to help show you how it’s done.)

www.growdatyouthfarm.org

Grow Dat Youth Farm

1 Palm Drive
City Park

New Orleans, LA 70124

It’s HOOTENANNY Time!

Please join us for Grow Dat’s biggest party of the year

Join us on the farm THURSDAY, April 17 from 7-10pm. Skip the line with cheaper tickets in advance!

The musicians are tuning their instruments, the chefs and bartenders are in the test kitchen working their magic, and the weather is looking beautiful —  a guaranteed good time will be had by all!

Square dancing led by caller Nathan Harrison with the Small Batch String Band will kick off an evening of revelry on the farm. Headliner Bruce ‘Sunpie’ Barnes & the Louisiana Sunspots never fail to delight. Ready to showcase your Zydeco dance moves?!

Premier local restaurants dishing up delightful small plates for the event include Mondo, Dante’s Kitchen, Pagoda Cafe, St. James Cheese Company, Gary Granata of Slow Food NOLA, Nola Pie Guy, Good Eggs, Bittersweet Confections, and Cafe NOMA. And don’t forget unlimited craft cocktails and ice cold beer brought to you by amazing bartenders from the Barman’s Fund. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year so please bring your friends and help support youth growing food for New Orleans!

Reserve your tickets online now! They’re cheaper and you’ll be able to make a bee-line to the fun faster on Thursday. Advance ticket sales close at noon the day of the festivities.

P.S. We heard a rumor that there will be prizes for BEST DRESSED and TOP RUG-CUTTERS (dancers) so come dressed to impress and ready to strut your stuff on the dance floor. Dress code? Why, Barn Dance Style, of course.

A big thank you to our Fiscal Sponsor, Slow Food NOLA

Already have your tickets? Hurray! Thank you! To further your support, would you please help spread the word by inviting your friends, family and coworkers to the event? Grow Dat is truly a community effort and most people find out about us through personal connections. Spread the word to help us grow! Click to join the Facebook Event and share with your network.

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Growing Food and Nurturing Tomorrow’s Leaders

Find us at: 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, City Park, between Pan Am Stadium and the NOLA Bark Dog Park

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.

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

GROW DAT

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Grow Dat Youth Farm, Broad Community Connections, Neighborland.org, and the Tulane Community Health Center are excited to host a Pop-Up Farmers Market this Saturday, June 16 featuring Grow-Dat’s delicious produce. The market will be hosted at Tulane University’s brand-spanking-new Ruth Fertel Community Health Center. There will be free watermelon juice, cooking demonstrations, and plenty of shade. Come on out to Broad Street and make some groceries!


WHAT: Grow Dat Pop-Up Farmers Market
WHEN: Saturday June 16, 2012
TIME: 10AM to 2PM
WHERE: Tulane University Ruth Fertel Community Health Center
711 N Broad Street at Orleans Avenue