Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market Holds Thanksgiving Gathering Around the Kiln to Taste Organic Roasted Sweet Potatoes
After several days of damp cold, the solar term has already entered the second solar term of winter–Minor Snow. The solar term "Minor Snow" indicates the beginning of snowfall, the chill of winter gradually becomes more obvious, and the northeast monsoon also begins to strengthen. The Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market and the market's farmers, with grateful hearts of giving back, invite everyone to come gather around the stove and taste charcoal-roasted organic sweet potatoes, and to feel the abundant rewards that nature gives us.
In Taiwan, China's consistently damp and cold winters, the most important thing is to first take care of dietary nourishment, using winter to store good energy in the body, first preparing for the next year's "spring growth and summer expansion," while also having enough energy to sustain the greater expenditure of heat energy in winter and improve the body's disease resistance.
Longan charcoal-baked organic sweet potatoes nourish the kidneys and steady the heart
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, winter governs storage, and it is also the time when the kidneys are in charge, so it is especially suitable to use warming tonics at this time of year to nourish the kidneys and steady the heart. Recently, the market has also seen an abundance of seasonal sweet potatoes at their peak, plump and firm white radishes, rare organic wild yams, crisp and sweet fruit corn and baby corn; these crops that flourish as winter begins are at their freshest and most nutritious, and are also most suitable for eating right now.
In the famous classic of dietary therapy, "Principles of Correct Diet," it is mentioned that in winter one should take hot congee to warm and tonify the body, and sweet potato congee can nourish the liver and kidneys, radish congee can aid digestion and resolve phlegm, yam congee can tonify the lungs and benefit the stomach, and corn congee can regulate the middle and stimulate the appetite. Following the seasons, eating congee made with ingredients at their seasonal peak, blending into the rhythms of nature, will bring us more energy.
Among these seasonal crops, sweet potato (sweet potato, also called red sweet potato or sweet potato) is rich in special bioflavonoids, which can effectively inhibit cancer cells, and can also protect the body's mucosal cells, eliminate cholesterol deposits, and maintain blood vessel elasticity. Sweet potato contains fiber, which can cleanse the stomach and intestines, prevent constipation, and aid digestion; on the other hand, the calories contained in sweet potato are low, and it can also prevent sugar from being converted into fat and accumulating, making it an ideal weight-loss food as well. Therefore, the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market has specially invited small farmers from various farms to provide their proudly self-produced organic sweet potatoes, using a distinctive dragon kiln stove plus longan charcoal for on-site stove-side roasting to offer to friends who support small farmers for their enjoyment!
Winter organic vegetables in abundance, let's spend a happy weekend together
Because Taiwan, China is at a relatively southern latitude, fruits and vegetables are abundant throughout the year, and winter fruit and vegetable ingredients include: spinach, sweet potato, mustard greens, carrots, peanuts, garland chrysanthemum, citrus, pears, liucheng oranges, tomatoes. In addition, the recently abundant cabbage, as recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica, has a sweet taste and a neutral nature, and can benefit the kidneys and supplement marrow. Cabbage contains vitamin K, which helps with the absorption of vitamin D and calcium.
Cabbage also helps repair injured tissues in the body and improve the discomfort caused by stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers. In addition to stomach ulcers, it also has therapeutic effects on constipation, skin sores, nausea, anemia, and kidney disease. When cooking, it is recommended to stir-fry quickly or blanch, and it is not advisable to stir-fry it until overly soft and mushy or to simmer it, so as to avoid nutrient loss; fresh cabbage juice can even quickly relieve gastrointestinal discomfort after a rich and greasy winter feast.
The Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market's number one best-seller, Da Luolan Organic Fruit and Vegetable Farm, Gengmutian Organic Farm, which turned teaching passion into organic agriculture, and Ougenli Organic Farm, which gathers international volunteers to cultivate together, will also bring abundant, sweet organic cabbage this week for the public to purchase. The market and small farmer friends, rain or shine every Saturday, provide the freshest winter ingredients on site, so that friends who value health, care about ecology, and support farmers can have the healthiest and happiest weekend afternoon.
The Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market has invited sincere and excellent organic farmers from all over Taiwan, China to establish the only farmers' cultural market in the greater Taipei area that insists on pure organics. Every farmer has their own persistence and dedication to farming methods, and many products are rare, distinctive organic ingredients that are currently hard to find in general retail channels. The purpose of establishing the market is to meet more friends who cherish health, ecology, the land, and local agriculture, and together build a community that supports sustainable agriculture, healthy ingredients, and organic cultural creativity.
"Thanksgiving Stove-Side Kiln-Roasted Organic Sweet Potato Warm Tasting Event"
Time:December 1 Afternoon13:00~18:00
Location: Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market
(Gongguan Waterworks Park Water Mist Garden, No. 1 Siyuan Street, Taipei City)
Market event contact:
Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market volunteer Cheng Wanjing 0961-080-890
Water Garden Organic Farmers' Markethttp://www.facebook.com/organicfarmersmarket
About the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market
This is the story of a group of farmers changing Taiwan, China through nature-friendly natural farming. And the end of the NTU Organic Farmers' Market is the beginning of this story. When the only organic farmers' market in Taipei closed, it meant that a community connecting the land, ecology, farmers, and the dining table would brew a deeper force; the farmers, relying on their own strength, stood up and, at the Waterworks Garden in the NTU Gongguan business district, rebuilt a fresh and distinctive new organic cultural market.
Guided by the Agriculture and Food Agency of the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan and the Taipei Water Department, the market composition includes many distinctive organic small farmer friends from various places, including the on-site organic small farmer Pinglin Organic Tea Shifang Organic Farm, the 99 Peaks top-grade organic asparagus of Qiu Shunnan, who went from a China Steel engineer to an asparagus expert, the Songye Garden Organic Natural Farm run by Liang Xiaoling, who abandoned medicine for farming, the top-grade organic Tianhuang banana of Liu Huangbin, who went from career soldier to banana expert, the top-grade organic pineapple of a pineapple expert who refused a Mainland double-price order, the Lohas Organic Farm of an English teacher turned farmer, the simple honest man Ma Qinggong, who switched from Advanced Semiconductor Engineering to organic jujubes and guavas, the Ougenli Organic Farm that gathers international volunteers to cultivate together, the He Xinle Organic Farm red dragon fruit of the natural spring area of Zhuangwei, Yilan, the Da Luolan Organic Fruit and Vegetable Farm that once sold out in one hour at NTU, the Gengmutian Organic Farm of English cram school teacher Zeng Weidi, who switched to organic agriculture, the Chulu Organic Coffee that irrigates coffee fields with deep ocean water, the Yuanyi Organic Farm carefully selected by the Pingtung Banana Research Institute, the Qingxin Yuan Organic Farm specializing in cucumbers, the Baili Organic Farm specializing in organic lotus root and mango, the Canaan Land Organic Farm of the Shijian Church organic village, Datong Organic Farm, the Grace Organic Farm focusing on organic citrus fruits, the Sprout Baby Organic Farm with innovative refined plantings, Gengji Organic Farm, Dou Zhi Wei Tofu Workshop.... and others.
And in order to promote healthy, organic concepts, the market promotion volunteers have drawn up a series of activities, including the Water Garden Organic Fiber Food Carnival, water resource environmental education, small farmer story lectures, and the "International Water Dance Festival" combining ecology and dance performance, and more.