Houston Urban Gardener (HUG) Meeting

Title: Houston Urban Gardener (HUG) Meeting
Location: Houston Garden Center, 1500 Hermann Dr. in Hermann Park, Houston
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Description: The next meeting of Houston Urban Gardeners will be Monday July 9 at 6:30 PM at the Houston Garden Center, 1500 Hermann Dr. in Hermann Park, Houston (713-284-1989). To access the parking lot go to Golf Course Drive (recently renamed Hermann Park Dr.) and enter the lot right across from Miller Outdoor Theater.

Our presenter, Jacquie Clark, owned and operated her own restaurant, Jacquisine, in the Champions area of Houston, then took over as the second manager of the (then) Bayou City Farmers Market. She has a passionate interest in everyone having the best food possible. Jacquie will preview her upcoming cooking classes, to be offered at the Urban Chef on Saturdays following the farmers market: Veggie Love, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Eat Fresh Local Seasonal Vegetables for Ease, Pleasure, and Joy. She will share tips, strategies, and easy recipes for adding more seasonal vegetables to our home cooking repertoires.

A related area of interest for Jacquie is food distribution. Having been a farmers market manager and a small business owner, she is acutely aware that for us to have more locally-grown food, we’ll have to have a distribution system accessible to small producers—unlike the existing systems, which are mostly operated by and for large corporations. Farmers markets, although delightful, can only provide a drop in the proverbial bucket. To entice more farmers to grow food for us, we’ll have to have an easier way for them to sell their products and make enough money to sustain their businesses. She doesn’t have any magic-bullet-type answers, but perhaps we can come up with one together.

Our meetings remain FREE and inclusive–everyone is invited. You don’t have to be a member. We will have snacks and the coffee machine that makes a fresh cup of coffee or tea every time. So come on down and learn more about cooking food at home and how our food distribution system works. Be prepared to meet and network with some like-minded people.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2012-07-09