Food Underground, brought to you by the owners of Roti Rolls, will launch its revolution on March 25th, 2016at Fresh Future Farm!
Cory Burke, Suzanne Dieter, and Alton Ankersen of Roti Rolls are expanding their Pay It Forward campaign into a community-focused dining experience. On March 25th they will join forces with Chef Benjamin ‘BJ’ Dennis, local Gullah Geechee culinary artist, to bring you FU’s first community dinner to spotlight the work that Fresh Future Farm and its founder, Germaine Jenkins are doing in a North Charleston food desert.
FFF’s mission is to cultivate fresh food, nutritional know-how and community involvement in a way that brings dignity to its customers. Our primary goal is to open a small grocery store onsite that sells its produce along with a mix of locally procured produce, fresh eggs, dairy, and basic grocery staples at fair prices where they are needed most. Our store will accept food stamp benefits for food, seeds and plants. As the farm grows, we will offer cooking demonstrations, organic gardening classes and hire residents to help run the operation.
Chef BJ Dennis and Cory Burke bring knowledge of local produce, proteins, and purveyors to March’s Food Underground table. They will be collaborating on a regional menu that will showcase some of our herbs, local crabs and blueberries from Blue Pearl Farms, vegetables from Joseph Fields Farm, and pork sausage from Holy City Hogs.
Included in the ticket price is the opportunity for someone in the Chicora Cherokee area to enjoy the meal as well. Every ticket purchased will subsidize a meal for residents that Germaine invites.
Ticket purchases symbolize Fresh Future Farm’s vision of people from all societies coming together to eat quality food while enjoying each others company.
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