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  • About
    • Mission
    • Impact
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    • Ways to Give to Working Food
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    • Kitchen
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Melissa DeSa

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Seed Summit & School 2020

Events, Saving Seeds, Southern Heritage Seed CollectiveBy Melissa DeSaMay 4, 2020

Huuuuge exhale! Last weekend we held our first ever online workshop for the Seed Librarian Summit! 50 people were there from all over the state ranging from no seed library yet and looking for ideas, to those that have been rocking seed libraries for many years! Thanks to Jenny Eason, Naomi Baxter, and Ben Cohen, we pulled…

Southern Seed School Online is LIVE!!

Community Impact, Events, Saving Seeds, Southern Heritage Seed CollectiveBy Melissa DeSaApril 21, 2020

We’ve been hustling and re-arranging everything with COVID 19 and are so excited to announce that our 4th Annual Southern Seed School is now online and live! We’re excited to have the opportunity and challenge to put our content online this year due to our inability to gather in person. It’s our first time facilitating…

Growing Food in North Florida: The Essentials

Community Impact, Local Food, Plant and Seed Sales, Saving Seeds, Southern Heritage Seed CollectiveBy Melissa DeSaApril 4, 2020

Times like these show us what really matters: food, close at hand and accessible! Many of us are finding a lot more time on our hands with shelter in place mandates in effect, to now consider starting a new garden or picking back up where you left off. There is also the realization that close…

High Gear at the Drive Through Farmers Market

Community Impact, Events, Local FoodBy Melissa DeSaMarch 29, 2020

  Another successful Drive Through Farmers Market. 417 orders of fresh local farm products were picked up this week with very little hiccups! We are so grateful to be a positive light in these uncertain and trying times. Please visit our website for details about how this works, a list of participating farms, and a…

Working Food’s Drive-Thru Farmers Market CSA

Events, Local FoodBy Melissa DeSaMarch 22, 2020

Support your local farmers and your health! Working Food is helping to facilitate safe access to local products from our farms. We hope to offer for this as an alternative to farmer’s markets that have closed for the next few weeks and will make sure we keep the safety of the community first and be…

Tomato & Pepper Plant Sale!

Events, Local Food, Plant and Seed Sales, Southern Heritage Seed CollectiveBy Melissa DeSaMarch 9, 2020

It’s that time of year again! We have a greenhouse full of lovely plants, waiting for their forever homes in your garden! Thanks to our helpers at Grow Hub, we have a great collection of varieties. Plants are now on sale at Grow Hub! *Still in business. Open air, safe social distancing** Shop regular nursery…

I Love Local Food Week: Mon Feb 10

Community Impact, Local Food, RecipesBy Melissa DeSaFebruary 10, 2020

Meatless Monday Lighten your dietary impact by forgoing meat just one day a week.  Instead, try adding more fresh, local veggies to your diet – good for you and the planet!  Looking for some dee-lish recipes?  Browse Meatless Monday for easy-to-make tummy & soul satisfiers. (And plan on going to the Gainesville VegFest or to…

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PiesAbilities. Doing business beautifully

Community Impact, Community Kitchen Incubator, Local FoodBy Melissa DeSaJanuary 23, 2020

Working Food is happy to be base camp for Jennifer Dempsey and her PiesAbilities team. Our newest entrepreneur is expanding the pie family with delicious creations of all shapes and sizes, like PieHoles, Puffins, and Slab Pies. Flavors run the gamut too. You know things are serious when pie is offered in categories! Vintage. Classic…

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The Dudley Family Corn Story

Biodiversity, Community Impact, Local Food, Saving Seeds, Southern Heritage Seed CollectiveBy Melissa DeSaJanuary 20, 2020

Written by Melissa DeSa On May 6, 2019 about 3,600 little corn seeds were planted in greenhouse trays. Normally corn is direct seeded in the field, but this corn was special and needed some extra protection- plenty can go horribly wrong for a little seed in the open field. Some of the seeds were dated…

2019 Video Re-cap of Working Food!

Community Impact, Community Kitchen Incubator, Local Food, Southern Heritage Seed Collective, Youth GardensBy Melissa DeSaDecember 2, 2019

Check out these fun little videos we made to showcase our three core programs! Seeds! A little peek through our local and regional seed work. Fun with kids in the garden! See the smiling faces, gorgeous veggies and fun activities we bring to kids every week! You can also read our annual report on the program…

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