Cups Conversations is an online community gathering space to talk about topics that are exciting in our local food systems! About this Event Join Cups Team Shelby and Taylor for a community round table where we unpack, discuss, and learn about topics and issues that are important to the Nebraska, regional and national food systems….
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Cups Conversations is an online community gathering space to talk about topics that are exciting in our local food systems! About this Event Join Cups Team Shelby and Taylor for a community round table where we unpack, discuss, and learn about topics and issues that are important to the Nebraska, regional and national food systems….
Continue readingNo More Empty Pots and the Florence Mill are teaming up again for the Blues & BBQ Annual Harvest Fundraiser. Join us at the Florence Mill to support Phase 2 of the NMEP Food Hub and the restoration of the Florence Mill Cob Shed. Enjoy live music from a blues band while tasting locally sourced…
Continue readingProject Localize in Omaha is an educational program that helps classrooms identify and promote sustainable economic, cultural and social progress in their communities. In Project Localize we work with schools to engage students in local foods discovery at school gardens and nearby farms. Students share what they find in their own voice through artistic photo collage and editing in collaboration…
Continue readingMeet our Food Hub Manager, Sarah Bleich and Kitchen Manager, Jessica Schultes! We started serving food entrepreneurs in the food hub in April 2017. With the start of service and demand for kitchen space by local food entrepreneurs, we needed professional staff to run it. We are fortunate to have so many talented chefs and…
Continue readingThe kitchens served its first tenants at the Collaborative Community Centered Food Hub in April. Michelle and Tony of MJER Help rented the first hours in the kitchen to cater a birthday party. The smells were wonderful – bacon and cupcakes wafting through the hallways! The next week, Velma of Suzan’s Sweet Potato Pie, LLC…
Continue readingOur neighbor in Florence, Mouth of the South: Southern Grub experienced a devastating fire. No one was injured. There is a lot of building damage. We are joining others to make sure that the staff and owners know that they are appreciated and cared for in our community. Thank you to all who reached out…
Continue readingOn February 22, 2017, nearly seven years to the date of the first food summit in 2010, No More Empty Pots received the permit from Douglas County Health Department to become a licensed commercial commissary kitchen. How it all began: On February 27, 2010 about 40 community members attended a food summit at Family Housing…
Continue readingby Susan Whitfield Blooms Organic and No More Empty Pots collaborated to launch a pilot paid organic farming internship in 2016. The goal of the pilot was to train future farmers to operate a successful commercial organic farm, learning all aspects of food crop production and marketing. The internship ran from April 2016 to 2017….
Continue readingNo More Empty Pots is no stranger to cooking demos at the library. For the past five years Washington Branch library of the Omaha Public Library system hosted a holiday cooking demonstration. This year was no exception. However for the first time, the youth participants were all young men under 18. One participant, Donald, is…
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