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Southeast Area Farmers’ Market Summer Celebration Saturday

Jul10

During the farmers’ market at Gerald R Ford Academic Center, Madison Avenue just south of Franklin Street SE.

vitoDJ Derrick “Vito” Hollowell will set the tone for family fun beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing throughout the day. In addition, the market will feature special activities, ongoing cooking demos, free kitchen gadgets, kids’ activities and prize drawings for farmers’ market vendor items.

SEAFM 7 11Special Activities

  • 11:30 a.m. West Michigan Jewels of Africa Drummers and Dancers
  • 12 p.m. Grand Rapids Fire Department. Fire truck, bicycle registration, home safety information and free smoke alarms.
  • 12 15p.m. West Michigan Jewels of Africa Drummers and Dancers
  • 12:30 p.m. Cooking Demo featuring Jill Myer, Kent County Health Department
  • 1:15 p.m. West Michigan Jewels of Africa Drummers and Dancers
  • 1:30 – 3 p.m.  Laura Casaletto, OKT Urban Forester, leads Urban Foraging activities and snack samples made with foraged local foods.
  • 1:45 West Michigan Jewels of Africa Drummers and Dancers

The Southeast Area Farmers’ Market is open Fridays, 3 to 7 p.m. at Garfield Park, Burton Street and Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Gerald R Ford Academic Center. Both market sites feature local, chemical free produce and warmly welcome SNAP/EBT, Double Up Food Bucks and WIC & Sr. ProjectFresh as well as cash and debit cards.

Fun and food at Cook, Eat & Talk

May12

Toni Scott, is leading OKT’s free At the May 10 Cook, Eat and Talk, OKT cooking coach, Toni Scott, and participants prepared root vegetable patties and Bryant Terry’s savory collard greens over yellow grits. The next Cook, Eat and Talk takes place Monday June 9 from 6 to 8 p.n. at Sherman Street Church, 1000 Sherman St. SE.

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Vote today to support Well House Food Growing Project

Apr3

Well House wants to expand its food growing project and needs your help. An organic seeds purveyor, Seeds of Change is giving out grants to non-profits that do urban food growing and food justice work. Click here and type in Well House Food Growing Project to cast your vote. You can vote once a day through April 21. Please share this information with as many people as possible so that Well House gets the most votes and wins a grant from Seeds of Change.

OKT stars on WOTV’s “Where You Live ”

Mar31

marandamaranda_300x213On Thursday March 27, OKT cooking coach, Toni Scott, gardener, Roberta Buffkin and executive director, Lisa Oliver-King, joined Maranda and their children for a cooking demo on WOTV’s program, “Where You Live.”

Click here to see the archived program.

Getting kids healthy through gardening

By MarandaPublished: Friday, March 28, 2014, 12:00 pm

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOTV) There’s a special program in Grand Rapids that celebrates food and community. Our Kitchen Table is now in its fourth year of its Food Diversity Program. It targets four Grand Rapids neighborhoods: Baxter, Garfield Park, SECA/Southtown, and Eastown. The program teaches people, especially moms and children, how to grow their own food.

The program is beneficial to children because it teaches them the skills needed to maintain and successfully grow a garden, the value of fresh food, and cooking skills. The program also has gardening coaches and a cooking coach to guide families through the process.

Our Kitchen Table manages the Southeast Area Farmers Market in two locations and also works with students at Martin Luther King Junior and Gerald R. Ford schools.