FarmersDirect Dinner Series #3.2- French Farms @ Earth-N-Us Farm

7630 NE 1st Ave,Miami FL 33138

08 April, 2022

Description

Four Course dinner with Miami's next generation of farmers- Chris French has become one of the biggest new young farmers in Miami. French Farms has used regenerative agricultural principles to grow veggies on a small scale for the South Florida marketplace for 5 years. Over the years this small scale farming project has moved to and from a few different fields and has scaled up to 2 acres and back down to 1/2 an acre for the upcoming winter veggie growing season. In past years you could find French Farms' produce at your favorite restaurants like Mandolin Aegean Bistro, 27 restaurant, Pinch, Zak the Baker, Itamae, Alter & Fooqs, or you may have bought his produce at the Little River Cooperative market booth at the Legion Park Farmers Market in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Miami. French Farms is more of a soil farm than a vegetable farm if you ask farmer Chris French. He and his team focus on regenerative farming practices and focus on the health of soil life, soil biodiversity, and soil building techniques like cover cropping, crop rotation & on site composting to grow nutrient dense vegetables for his community. While French Farms is not certified organic it uses all OMRI listed and certified inputs, like germination mix, fertilizer & pesticides. We're so excited to do another Farmers Direct Dinners with him! A Glass of Kombucha is on us, courtesy of Angry Booch, who grows some of their own ingredients themselves and puts lots of local harvest into their flavors. A small donation based bar will be available as well, and you are welcome to BYOB! Love and Vegetables and Urban Oasis Project host the FarmersDirect dinner series to highlight farms in South Florida and provide the best plant based and truly local deliciousness possible. At each dinner, almost all of the ingredients will be sourced from a specific farm, and the farmer will be present to share the meal and have a live interview about their motivations, successes, challenges and dreams.  We purchase all of the produce from the farms, plus an extra portion of the proceeds will go to that farmer as a thank you for their work.  Revenues support our SNAP doubling programs at farmers markets.  Street parking is free along 76th St. Look for the signs! Covid protocols: We will be eating outdoors, and some tables are larger for mixed groups. Urban Oasis Project Strongly encourages all participants be Covid vaccinated, but can not check or enforce this. This is an open seating dinner event, so we don't expect many people to wear masks. We will reserve some tables for small groups upon prior request. Please email any seating requests right away and we will develop a plan based on everyones needs.