 | | CUESA's Weekly E-Letter | December 9, 2016 |
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| FEATURE Empowering Youth through Schoolyard to Market
| Our community's healthy future depends on today's youth having access to fresh fruits and vegetables and taking their health into their own hands. CUESA's Schoolyard to Market program invests in that future. This month, we're highlighting members of our community who embody positive change. By donating to CUESA, you help this healthy food movement grow and be accessible to students who need it the most. This week, we want you to meet Samantha Gomez, a junior at John O'Connell High School in San Francisco's Mission District. Samantha participates in CUESA's semester-long Schoolyard to Market gardening and youth entrepreneurship program. Throughout the 16 weeks, students learn about nutrition and gardening, take field trips to local farms, and sell their school garden produce at CUESA's farmers markets.
In an urban environment ruled by concrete and cell phone screens, Samantha has found a nourishing alternative by getting her hands in the soil. Growing her own food in the school garden, she has also grown new perspectives on food and the natural world, which have inspired her to share her passion for fruits and vegetables with her family and others. |
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| | MARKET FLAVORS This Week's Picks
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| | | BE A FOOD HERO Help Us Reach Our Year-End Fundraising Goal | | You have the power to defend your food values: making fresh food available to all, supporting the farmers bringing food to our tables, and empowering youth to live healthy lives. Ensure that the food movement forges ahead by giving to CUESA. With your support, we've raised $5,000 so far this month. We need to raise $25,000 by the end of the year, so please spread the word and donate today to support healthy food, farms, and families.
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| | POP-UP VENDOR New! Steppladder Creamery at Jack London Square and the Ferry Plaza
| | CUESA welcomes Stepladder Creamery to the Jack London Square Farmers Market on Sundays and the Ferry Plaza on Tuesdays! Stepladder is a small farmstead artisan goat dairy and creamery in Cambria, specializing in handmade cow's milk and goat's milk cheeses using milk from their LaMancha goats and other local family-owned dairies.
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| | SEASON OF GIVING Support CUESA's Holiday Pie Bake for The Veterans Academy
| | This holiday season, CUESA volunteers are baking 100 apple pies to donate to senior and disabled veterans at The Veterans Academy, in partnership with Food Runners. Please contribute to our ingredient drive by purchasing apples, lemons, and/or flour from vendors at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market on December 10 and 17. Monetary donations are also welcome.
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| | GIVE LOCAL Holiday Schedule and Gift Guide
| | This holiday season, give the gift of good food while supporting local farmers and food crafters! CUESA farmers market are open throughout the holidays, except December 25 and January 1 at Jack London Square. See our holiday guide for delicious and distinctive stocking stuffers and host gifts, as well as fixings for creating a sustainably sourced goodie basket.
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| | COMMUNITY PARTNER POP-UP Planting Justice Pops Up at Jack London Square | | Sundays, December 11 and 18 | Planting Justice, a grassroots organization with a mission to democratize access to affordable, nutritious food by empowering urban residents, will be popping up at Jack London Square Farmers Market to sell handcrafted holiday gifts like herbal bundles, satchels, tinctures, and salves made from school garden plants.
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| | KIDS CORNER Holiday Crafts for Kids at Jack London Square
| | Sunday, December 11 | Arts for Oakland Kids will be hosting a free children's holiday craft activity at Jack London Square Farmers Market this Sunday, showing kids how to make wrapping paper with stamps made from market produce! Look for them near the Franklin Street entrance from 10 am to 2 pm.
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| | FARM ADVENTURE New! Groundwork Party at Stemple Creek Ranch
| Sunday, January 15 | Start the New Year as a climate hero! Join a tree-planting party and farm tour to support carbon farming at Stemple Creek Ranch! Your efforts will be rewarded with a great meal prepared by Chris Kiyuna and Anthony Myint of The Perennial, along with stimulating drinks and conversation. | | |
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| | LISTEN & LEARN "Politics and the Dinner Table" Audio Is Up
| Did you miss our packed-house "Politics and the Dinner Table" discussion last week? You can now listen online or download an MP3 of the talk from the CUESA website, or read the coverage at The New Food Economy. Stay tuned to the CUESA e-letter for more opportunities to actively engage in building the good food movement. | | |
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| | SEASONAL RECIPE Nettle Porridge with Butternut Squash and Bacon
| Cozy up with this warming winter porridge featuring rye berries, barley, butternut squash, bacon, and stinging nettles, brought to you by chef Nichole Accettola of Kantine, one of our winter pop-up vendors at the Saturday farmers market. | | |
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Market Update
This is the most up-to-date info about this week's seller attendance at the time of publication. Please stop by the CUESA Info Booth for a market map or check online for any last-minute changes. New! Capay Mills
Returning: The Sharp Brothers, Triple J Cellars Out: Bodega & Yerba Santa Goat Cheese, Crumble & Whisk, Devil's Gulch Ranch, Flatland Flower Farm/Little Apple Treats, Happy Girl Kitchen Co., Hayes Street Grill, Lagier Ranches, Mountain Ranch Organically Grown, Nicasio Valley Cheese Company, Tout Sweet Patisserie
New! Stepladder Ranch
Returning: Marin Gourmet, Three Babes Bakeshop
Out: Brokaw Ranch Company, New Family Farm
Returning: Everything Under the Sun
Holiday Schedule
Note that the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market will be OPEN throughout the holidays, including December 24 and 31. Jack London Square Farmers Market is CLOSED December 25 and January 1.
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