Come to our potlucks! Our famous potlucks highlight locally grown food, and usually have a food garden tour at the host's residence. Bring something from your garden (people who have no garden are welcome too)!
February/March potluck location will be announced soon, somewhere in Kendall or South Miami with an amazing garden tour! ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Some past potluck news: January 8th, 1:00 pm: Potluck was a pig roast, Puerto Rican style, compliments of Art and Luigi, at the beautifully native plant landscaped Unitarian Universalist Church 7701 SW 76th Avenue, Miami, FL 33143 phone: 305-667-3697. Contact Art for more info: misshapp@gmail.com November 5 2011 potluck was at Master Gardener Yvrose Valdez's house in Miami Shores- her little urban oasis has always been amazing, and it is more intensively planted now than ever! OCTOBER 2011 potluck will be held at the house of lifelong organic gardener and adjunct faculty of Miami Dade College's Earth Ethics Institute, Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton. This may be your last chance to tour this amazing garden as our beloved Joyce is planning her move to North Florida! Sept 2011 We took the $5 Challenge from Slow Food USA! from Slow Food USA's website: THE CHALLENGE: This September 17, you're invited to take back the 'value meal' by getting together with family, friends and neighbors for a slow food meal that costs no more than $5 per person. Cook a meal with family and friends, have a potluck, or find a local event. WHY: Because slow food shouldn't have to cost more than fast food. If you know how to cook, then teach others. If you want to learn, this is your chance. Together, we're sending a message that too many people live in communities where it's harder to buy fruit than Froot Loops. Everybody should be able to eat fresh, healthy food every day. July 2011 potluck was at the new Homestead Harvest farmers market at Verde gardens on July 15. June 2011 potluck was held on June 12, at a private home in the Colonial Drive area south of the Falls. We had authentic Jamaican jerk and exchanged plants and seeds after touring a Jamaican style backyard garden! April/May 2011 (May 1) potluck was at Little River Market Garden, where Muriel heated up the wood-burning oven and we had an endless stream of garden pizzas (Muriel, David, Yuhfen, and Antonio), fresh artisan bread (Antonio), roasted eggplant (Melissa), and lots of yummy potluck dishes! New friends came out as well as old. We toured the garden, just hung out and enjoyed the afternoon. People went home with seeds we exchanged, and some leftover produce from Saturdays Upper East Side farmers Market at Biscayne Plaza, just a few blocks from Little River Market Garden and Little Haiti. February/March 2011 potluck was at new Biscayne Plaza Farmers' Market, February 26th! Sunday, January 30, from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Miramar Community Garden at Fairway Park in Broward County. 3700 Largo Drive, Miramar, FL. More info and map at below link: http://www.ci.miramar.fl.us/green/garden/ Saturday, December 18th was at Troy Academy, an amazing urban oasis made by Ben Thacker and teens he teaches to garden through Miami's juvenile justice system. Place: 3300 NW 27th Ave. Miami, FL November 21 was at the FIU student garden! Yuhfen Lin, an Urban Oasis Project board member who is very active at the FIU student garden, organized this and welcomed all! We got a tour of the nature preserve beforehand, and then got to see all the food garden plots. There were themed gardens like medicine and herb gardens, research gardens, and more. All are taken care of by students of the Agroecology program, run by Dr. Mahadev Bhat and Dr.Krish Jayachandran. http://news.fiu.edu/2010/04/student-run-garden-at-fiu-named-peoples-garden/ October potluck was at Art and Luigi's house in South Miami, with a tour of their incredible yard with food growing everywhere!
September potluck at Yvrose's house in Miami Shores was attended by 50 people! We toured her intensively planted yard, loaded with edibles everywhere, and beautiful! She even keeps the strict Miami Shores yard police happy!
August potluck was replaced by a community event- our 5% day fundraiser at Whole Foods Market. Proceeds benefit food stamp users at a new Liberty City farmer's market, and our GIVE gardens: food gardens for senior citizens, families with kids, and others in the inner city.
July potluck was at Muriel Olivares' Little River Market Garden- lots of good people, good food, and a great garden! www.littlerivercsa.com
June potluck was at Amanda Mayan's house in Hollywood, which she, her husband, and kids are turning into an urban homestead. The front yard is full of raised bed gardens, and they are planning to raise fish to eat in their backyard.
May's potluck was amazing! We had it at Melissa's house- lots of edible landscaping, and we made ashort trip to nearby Frank M.'s edible Kendall landscape with nary a blade of grass- sweet potatoes and seminole pumpkin were major ground covers, accented with fruit trees, peppers, brassicas, tomatoes, fennel, herbs, banana plants, way too many plants to mention. Frank is what we aspire to be!
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