The New Leaf Foods Blog
Original Thanksgiving Foods
While the “first” Thanksgiving story is inaccurate, we know there was a harvest celebration meal organized by the English colonists sometime in the autumn of 1621. It was attended by Wampanoag leaders. Exactly what they ate is unknown, but it had to have been prepared from mostly locally sourced Indigenous American foods.. The Three Sisters companion growing system is as old as the domestication of corn. It was so successful that it became integral to the lifeways of most corn-growing communities throughout the Americas.
Thanks LuTia and Braedon for your MCHS AmeriCorps Service!
We are deeply grateful to LuTia Colbert and Braedon Richlen, who have served New Leaf Foods as MCHS AmeriCorps Members for their 2023-24 service year. Their talented and dedicated service has advanced our mission of improving healthy food access and education and building a healthy local food system. They have also improved our organizational capacity for future progress! It has been our great joy to know and work with them. We wish them continued good work and the brightest of futures!
From Community Garden to Family Table
(Aug. 3, 2024) On Saturday morning, despite a weeklong spell of hot muggy weather, everyone enjoyed the guided tours of one of the Brown County Community Garden’s oldest community garden. Established in 1996 and located in the Fort Howard neighborhood at Maple and Augusta in Green Bay, this Community Garden boasts a thriving and diverse population of gardeners growing a healthy variety of vegetables, herbs, and flowers—from corn, beans, and squash (The Three Sister) to lemon grass, Thai peppers, cabbage, onions, watermelons and tomatillos, on 32 plots. The crops were in peak form. Obviously well-tended, Maple & Augusta Garden does just what it was designed to do--provide “access to affordable, nutritious and culturally appropriate food.”
The Power of Community Gardens
Since 1996, the Brown County Community Gardens have built on the foundations of providing accessible and culturally appropriate food to our community members.
