RIVER BITES WORKSHOP 2:

COASTAL STORIES OF AKARA

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 (1 - 3 PM)

River Bites is a 4-part culinary workshop series facilitated by Maya Marie.

Come spend your Saturday riverside at Oko Farms with Deep Routes, supported by One Love Community Fridge, as we explore how connections to land and water are deeply intertwined with African diasporic foodways.

We’ll enjoy nourishing meals that highlight both the farm’s seasonal abundance and the evolution of dishes that have crossed oceans, bays, and rivers thanks to generations of stewardship by Black people.

Each workshop will engage participants together through Introductions, Educational Discussion, Culinary Demos, Collective Harvesting, Dish Preparation, & A Shared Community Meal

All workshop participants will receive a bag of produce and mini book with recipes to take with them!

INSTRUCTOR PROFILE

Maya is a Black urban farmer and foodways educator from Baltimore, MD (Piscataway, Cherokee, and Lumbee lands) who’s called Brooklyn, NY (Canarsee, Lenni Lenape lands) her home for over 10 years, with her family’s roots in the DMV, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

She's invested in creating accessible spaces for Black and brown people to learn about food and health that center their personal stories and food traditions. She believes that food education can be a vehicle for communities of color to engage with their history and health while tapping into their power for social change.

Her interests in food have led her to earn a culinary arts degree, to apprentice at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz where she studied Ecological and Sustainable Horticulture, and to study community health at Hunter College and become a Build. Unlearn. Decolonize. and CoFED Racial Justice Fellow alum.

When Maya isn’t farming she continues to combine her love of cooking, agriculture, science, and history by pouring her heart into Deep Routes and creating unpublished photography pieces for her personal project Seeds & Receipts. She’s also a former founding member of the Central Brooklyn-based culinary collective Beautifully Fed Food.

Supported by: One Love Community Fridge

One Love Community Fridge works to eradicate hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition, and the stigma associated with all three, through an integrated, multi-generational, and inclusive movement that centers access to fresh foods, nutrition education, and sustainability.

They support existing community fridges throughout Brooklyn and also expands these efforts to add additional fridges strategically placed close to public schools readily available for youth and families throughout Brooklyn.

LOCATION: 105 River Street, Brooklyn NY

***Entrance is located on NORTH 3RD, directly next to the River