Jan 9, 2024 | Cooking, Food Justice, Slow Food Leaders
I was blessed to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of my first official meal sold this past weekend, and am truly moved by the number of people who sent me warm wishes and heartfelt congratulations.
Nov 2, 2023 | Cooking, Plant A Seed, Recipe
Millard and Connie Locklear describe how they make their beloved collard sandwich to Chris Smith, farmer and Heirloom Collard Project administrator. Millard and Connie own New Ground Farms and are enrolled members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, which is...
Oct 31, 2023 | Cooking, Plant A Seed, Recipe
Our 2023 Plant a Seed campaign celebrates greens and the communities who celebrate them. If you grew the our Plant a Seed kit in your garden this year, then you know that two greens in particular have been rockstar standouts deserving of celebration: fluffy Matilde...
Oct 30, 2023 | Campaigns, Cooking, Plant A Seed, Stories
By Mara Welton, Director of Programs It’s finally Collard Week — though anytime is a perfect time to celebrate these glorious greens! We are entering the months when frost becomes a possibility in the low points of our nation’s topography, which is when collards start...
Oct 18, 2023 | Cooking, Plant A Seed, Recipe
Our 2023 Plant a Seed campaign celebrates greens and the communities who celebrate them. If you grew the our Plant a Seed kit in your garden this year, then you know that two greens in particular have been rockstar standouts deserving of celebration: fluffy Matilde...
Oct 15, 2023 | Ark of Taste, Biodiversity, Plant A Seed, Recipe
By Mara Welton, Director of Programs I have long loved chicories — those bitter greens, reds and pinks that grace your salad mixes, often incognito. Beautiful radicchio leaves, oft mistaken for red cabbage, their maroon petals giving nutritional heft to an otherwise...
