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Recipe of the Month

  

Chinese Chicken Cabbage Salad

  

Ingredients:   

  • 4 cups napa cabbage, sliced thin
  • 1 TBS extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 TBS rice vinegar
  • 1 tsp soy sauce 
  • 1 TBS minced ginger
  • 1 medium clove garlic, pressed
  • 2 TBS chopped cilantro
  • 4 oz cooked chicken breast, shredded or cut into 1" cubes
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Directions:    

  1. Toss all ingredients together and serve. 
Fresh picked radishes.
Frances Boudreaux, one of our amazing volunteers, harvesting herbs.
Students at Alexandria Middle Magnet planting their fall garden!
-- Thank You --
 The Good Food Project earnestly thanks the following businesses and individuals for their support in providing plants, supplies or services for the community garden.
 
Lowes
Linda Tulley  
Austin Ag Supply  
Fads & Frames 
Petrus Feed and Seed  
What Our Garden Needs
 The following items are needed to enhance our community garden.
 
 Manure
Compost
Leaves   
Please contact us at [email protected]
 or 318-445-2773 if you are able to donate any of these items.
 
Thank You! 
What You Can Plant
This Month

Cabbage
Carrots
Celery
Garlic
Onions
Swiss Chard
Shallots
Spinach 
Radishes
Turnips   
Sustainable Garden
  Tip of the Month  

  

Mint has got to be one of the most versatile herbs around. Indoors, you can use it to deodorize a room, wake up your skin, freshen your breath, create delicious hot (and cold) teas, lend zest to vegetable dishes, and spruce up otherwise-ordinary salads, juices, spreads, fruits, etc. And outdoors - in the vegetable garden - mint's highly aromatic foliage acts to repel ants, white cabbage moths, and other pests ... thereby ensuring healthy crops of cabbage, tomatoes, broccoli, and brussel sprouts. No herb or vegetable garden should be without at least one of the sweet-smelling members of the mint family. These plants are simply too useful - and too easy to grow - to pass up! Keep in mind, however, that mint is a weed which means it spreads like wild fire. It is recommended to grow this plant in containers, but if you'd like to add some to your beds to ward off pesky pests- don't be afraid to uproot if it gets out of hand. The hardy herb will always grow back!

 


 
4-H students at Brame Middle School planting away!

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Good Food Project Garden News

 

October 2012

"One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides."  -W.E. Johns

   

 

Volunteer of the Month

Rene Alewine 

 

 

"Every stressor can be eliminated if you go and put it in the dirt..." This noble advice given to Rene Alewine at an early age by her mother is something that she fully lives by. Rene, an Alexandria native, studied science at LSU and returned home to work at Rapides General. After gaining five years of experience working in their lab, Rene was offered a position with the Alexandria VA Medical Center- an opportunity she couldn't turn away. While at the VA, a career change into their Recreational Therapy Program allowed Rene to incorporate her favorite past time, gardening, through the VA's horticultural program. "Clients loved it," Rene explained. "Even patients confined to a wheel chair got out there and worked. We started seeds from scratch and shared our harvest with the employees. I would even cook some of the vegetables and we would have a sit down meal together."

 

Rene's passion for helping others started long before her involvement at the Good Food Project. She was a missionary for several years traveling all over the world where she became involved with several different programs to help start gardens. Rene is passionate about teaching people the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle. "When you can teach people and get them healthy food, you can heal them," Rene said. This is one of the reasons Rene is an active volunteer with the GFP. "Doing a great service to give people fresh food that is not processed...helping out, pulling weeds, and meeting new people; it's amazing," Rene said. She believes nutrition is what made her well after a terrible boating accident left her with serious injuries. During her recovery time, Rene discovered the healing power of gardening. "Mom always dug in the dirt, and I was right there with her," she said. "I spent a year planting flowers in every corner of the yard. And that's probably why I grow flowers better than edibles, but I'm learning!" Rene is excited to take what she's learned during her time at the GFP garden and apply that to her own gardening techniques.

 

The Good Food Project is very happy to have the fellowship and the passion of community giving Rene Alewine brings each week and is proud to name her Volunteer of the Month.

Calling All Garden Enthusiasts!

 Do you have your own organic garden and can teach us a trick or two? Or maybe your passion is chickens or nutritional cooking? Let us know! We are looking for local experts to teach some of our Organic Gardening and Sustainable Living Workshops. Call or email us if you are interested!
 


 

One of the goals of the Good Food Project is to create a network of community gardens in Central Louisiana. We have partnered with several schools and organizations in an effort to create these networks and couldn't be happier with the success they have shown. To further these networks, the Good Food Project is in the process of creating its first true community garden thanks to former city councilman, Louis Marshall. Located on 2510 Wise Street, Alexandria, LA, the property, passed down to Mr. Marshall by his grandfather, was an empty lot ready and waiting to be filled with vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruits.

 

The idea for this garden is that the neighbors will work the plot and each family that participates in the garden will receive vegetables from the harvest. The Good Food Project staff will teach the residents about organic gardening methods and continue to provide technical assistance to guide the effort. Several local businesses have also reached out to show their support for this new and exciting project. Henry Tree Surgery offered their services and removed tree limbs and dug up roots to allow for more sun light and better soil. Lowe's Home Improvement graciously donated tools to the future Eugene Warner Neighborhood Garden. Mayor Roy and the city of Alexandria have agreed to partner with us as well.

 

This is a very exciting project for us, and one that we hope will serve as a model for more community gardens to come! If you are interested in helping this garden grow by donating to the project, please call (318)787-6893.    

Sustainable Gardening and Living Workshop

Serving Food Safely
by Master Nutritionist
Johnnie Hart
November 2, 9am

The Good Food Project classes are taught at The Food Bank of Central Louisiana and each participant will receive a Topsy Turvy aerial planter. 

 

Registration for planning purposes is required.    

 Please register via e-mail [email protected], using our online registration at www.goodfoodproject.org or calling 318-445-2773.   

 Workshops are open to everyone, and donations are requested for admission.




Join us for WORKDAY WEDNESDAY every week from 7am to 12pm! All adults and children are invited to come out for a fun day of learning and giving back to the CENLA community.
Let's grow together!

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