{"id":58041,"date":"2019-03-15T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?p=58041"},"modified":"2019-03-15T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:24:12","slug":"bronx-foodies-chefs-and-familia-recipes-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2019\/03\/garden-programming\/bronx-foodies-chefs-and-familia-recipes-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Foodies, Chefs, and Familia: Recipes Needed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ursula Chanse is the Director of Bronx Green-Up and Community Horticulture at The New York Botanical Garden.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bronx Green-Up Community Horticulturist\/Urban Agriculturist Kadeesha Williams highlights NYBG\u2019s partnership in the production of The Bronx Hot Sauce at the annual Harvest Festival at New Roots Community Farm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NYBG\u2019s Bronx Green-Up is excited to be part of a new collaboration called The Bronx Canasta, an innovative food production and empowerment program in the Bronx. The Bronx Canasta aims to build self-reliance of Bronx communities to grow their own food and create, market, and distribute value-added products. To support these efforts, The Bronx Canasta secured four years of funding through a USDA Community Food Projects Competitive Grant and is now seeking input on the first value-added product\u2014a Bronx salad dressing and marinade recipe!
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\nOver the past four years, Bronx community gardens and urban farms have demonstrated the viability of commercial production by growing more than two tons of serrano peppers to make The Bronx Hot Sauce\u2122, generating more than $18,000 that has been reinvested into the participating Bronx community gardens. Bronx Green-Up\u2019s role in this pepper partnership has been to provide technical growing assistance to gardeners and coordinate the collection of the locally grown peppers.<\/p>\n

Now, the Bronx Canasta\u2019s recipe competition seeks to collect culturally important and tasty recipes from Bronx residents. The recipe competition opened Friday, March 1, and will close on Monday, April 15 at 5 p.m. Visit bronxcanasta.nyc<\/a> to submit your recipe. <\/p>\n

Carrie Rebora Barratt, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and William C. Steere Sr. President of The New York Botanical Garden, expressed NYBG\u2019s enthusiasm for the project, stating, \u201cThe New York Botanical Garden is thrilled to partner with the Bronx Canasta team on this inspired project, which will create many opportunities for community engagement with gardens and food. First up, we will create a delicious dish out of the world\u2019s best ingredients: Bronx-grown produce, Bronx urban farming expertise, and Bronx culture and spirit.\u201d <\/p>\n

Local officials have also expressed their support for this new program, with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stating, \u201cGrassroots projects like this create roadmaps to be emulated and copied by community gardens in other urban areas throughout the country. I congratulate Bronx Canasta for their efforts to date and look forward to trying the winning recipe later this year.\u201d <\/p>\n

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. emphasized the importance of community gardens in this initiative. \u201cThe community gardens are vital assets to Bronxites throughout the borough,” he said. “The gardens combining their efforts to create a product that promotes a healthy lifestyle from plants grown right here is exciting. I encourage all New Yorkers with an epicurean flair to take part in this recipe contest and bring the flavor of the Bronx to their own special cuisine.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Bronx Canasta grew out of Bronx Green-Up\u2019s long-standing food, farming, and community gardening partnerships with the Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center, La Familia Verde, International Rescue Committee, Friends of Brook Park, Morris Campus Educational Farm, and Small Axe Peppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NYBG\u2019s Bronx Green-Up is excited to be part of a new collaboration called The Bronx Canasta, an innovative food production and empowerment program in the Bronx whose recipe competition seeks to collect culturally important and tasty recipes from Bronx residents. The recipe competition opened Friday, March 1, and will close on Monday, April 15 at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[345,5065],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-f69","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58045,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58041\/revisions\/58045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}