https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/blog daily 0.75 2023-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/6b69610c-ec0e-4d51-bcbc-f4d876f4650d/2021-09-08+19.30.16.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/425ca2ca-1183-41d7-bb3e-4a52d8507ebf/2021-09-21+16.03.37.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/67e77b3b-15b8-4570-ab1e-d22be7e0beb2/IMG_6145.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/fecd9ca2-0b0b-4b47-a61b-44c81dd8a89e/2021-09-21+16.01.29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/2e570b8c-df7d-47ed-ac80-7a97218e348b/PHOTO-2022-03-06-00-11-11+%281%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/d46104c5-c30d-44fc-8aa0-d1a33d7c7320/PHOTO-2022-03-06-00-11-11.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/26c6c547-00b0-4f25-b233-e73324d61bf3/Lean+on+Me+Thumbnail.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/eecce5f1-a69c-48d2-952e-54c347df4e75/image_6487327+%281%29.JPG https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/blog/bringing-a-taste-of-the-congo-to-your-plate monthly 0.5 2021-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619136928773-PWH7UVS4XWQO22AW9SF8/Screenshot+2021-04-22+8.05.14+PM.png Blog - Bringing a Taste of the Congo to Your Plate https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/home daily 1.0 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1618266936083-4PTQ9RENOK28N31IH545/JupiterGarden-05-HM-1228x775.jpg Home - Education and Skills Training Engaged community members will learn the necessity for our community to be involved in the process of fighting climate change by cultivating healthy food locally. We seek to create workshops teaching how to minimize the application of synthetic plant protection products and on-farm workshops showing how we will deviate from the practice of monoculture, widespread mechanization, and the contribution of agrochemicals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1618267037145-L56YC8UP84P8FOAQTWFQ/afroquizine.jpg Home - Afro-Quizine The Young Jupiter Afro-Tourism Center hopes to create an Afro-Quizine Café, Wedding Catering service, and On The Road Food Delivery where we can share the vibrant flavors and welcoming culture of African cuisine and hospitality. In the tradition of the Black ingenuity that brought us agro-economic models such as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and You-Pick markets, we hope to revive a culture of exchange where individuals who have participated in tending and harvesting will taste the enlivening flavors of Congolese and African cuisines in dishes using the ingredients they have harvested themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1618266595124-O59AZNQ6F8FNV2SFN2GV/LOVE+YJ.jpg Home - A Community Center We envision a farm-to-table the garden providing employment opportunity for 5-10 Black individuals. We will ground ourselves by putting our hands in the ground and cultivate the fruits of our dreams for the future as we cultivate the fruits of the land. We will find rhythm in collective work; fully engaging our body, mind, and spirit. https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/afro-tourism daily 0.75 2021-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1618359476236-73XQ7NQ2XYLKERRJ3RTH/amaranth+YJ.jpg Afro-Tourism A grasshopper on top of flowering amaranth, the plant that yields the delicious Afro-culinary green, lenga-lenga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619195078513-G6QRS4LJ3AVNU07HPGYW/perrypose.jpg Afro-Tourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619194995476-LLL776WHZZH4QBKKPRNF/ocpsummergarden4.jpg Afro-Tourism Community members work in the garden at Our Community Place, a partner of the Young Jupiter Market Garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1618360077860-BR599U1HHD2CNIOXE1GB/YJ+toms.jpg Afro-Tourism Photo: Holly Marcus, Harrisonburg Citizen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1618360629711-UYP9KY231B35AVX92083/IMG_20190809_092658.jpg Afro-Tourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619195043541-WZFW7JGMGSFK7O0KDMRA/leonsdrumming2.jpg Afro-Tourism https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/donate daily 0.75 2021-04-22 https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/donate-1 daily 0.75 2021-04-12 https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/market-garden daily 0.75 2021-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1618593939746-DAKHS461EF81Z8EA01X9/116791762_10221283586772794_1594732079090181766_n.jpg Market Garden - Plant Power to the People The Young Jupiter Market Garden’s purpose is to bring ethnically diverse, naturally-grown produce to Harrisonburg’s Afro-diverse community while generating income to build and restore community members’ essence of self-dignity and desire to also want to want more for themselves and their closed ones. Through mother nature stewardship, we are bringing our African Americans of slave decent and all African women to dive back into agricultural production as a means to end social, economical, and environmental deterioration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619193694248-VCM79CN8HHY5PC5UG3SW/marie+ingarden.png Market Garden - Lenga Lenga (Amaranth Greens) The green leaves of the amaranth plant, a flowering annual that is often regarded as a “weed” by many gardeners in the United States, but that is a prized ingredient in central African cuisine. Lenga Lenga is nutritious and hearty. Amaranth grows readily in most climates around the Americas, and is also highly appreciated in Central American cuisines. The seeds of the amaranth flower can be harvested and ground to make a hearty gluten free grain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619194386233-54QB3J4VLF7347YYJCNJ/Screenshot+2021-04-23+12.11.10+PM.png Market Garden - Okra a staple of the cuisine of the African American south and African cuisines more broadly, okra is a nutritious and hearty vegetable rich in vitamin A and low in calories. Okra is loved fried, grilled, pickled, thrown into soup, or even fresh. It is almost a symbol of African American culture in the American South to some. It originated from the warm equatorial climates of Africa and South Asia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619193786057-UYX4BYNA2SZ8H6HQ7ZGC/ngaingai+plate.jpg Market Garden - Ngai Ngai Ngai Ngai is the Congolese name for the tender young leaves of the Hibiscus sabdariffa, called Rosella in English. The greens are a staple of Congolese cuisine, steamed or stir fried with onions and tomato until tender and dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619194001182-VWKKYNV83EE8YUZM3GIS/eggplantcloseup.jpg Market Garden - Aubergine (Eggplants) Eggplant — called Aubergine in Europe, Garden Egg or Guinea Squash in Western Africa— is native to Asia, and has long been used in Asian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and African cuisine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1618595529311-RBOH853BNATX7WZTLJUB/68834292_10218100314992989_477641427497517056_n.jpg Market Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/c2a71296-1cf4-42e0-bb0f-15e193ff32b4/117163963_10221283585172754_7771057051377609073_n.jpg Market Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/e40d8969-0ee3-4db8-aae2-7caa392c7973/117204141_10221283587492812_7893617065113136372_n+%281%29.jpg Market Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/81fe2924-22c5-4806-ab25-c8059fbb74fe/117302144_10221283584452736_4755400693151064851_n+%281%29.jpg Market Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/52e038c3-9758-42ab-9631-534c95a85f7c/68419711_10218100314632980_7638225527752359936_n+%281%29.jpg Market Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1c18c615-99ab-462f-860f-cdb2913dbb45/71199015_10218521460641367_4223156215904993280_n.jpg Market Garden https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/community-development daily 0.75 2021-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619194801672-FGLESM543FTD7PXKBZUC/ocpsummergarden2.jpg Community Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619194714421-6TCJERQYH48LX40YLI5D/essentialworkers.jpg Community Development Graphic: National Immigration Law Center https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/our-vision daily 0.75 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619123396555-IS2H3F2GAJ7GNZGXTELP/marieingardensummer.png Our Vision - "Don't liberate us, we'll take care of it" -MWASI Afrofeminist Collective https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/our-team daily 0.75 2021-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619132140828-XUKV81GX5IUVT8L4AN9G/mariekandsign.jpg Our Team - Marie Mitongo Mother to 6 sons, the incredible Marie Mitongo is a chef and creative director for the Young Jupiter Women’s Afro Tourism Center. As the foundation and womb for this vision. Like our Mother the Earth, who has held us for centuries, Chef Marie has held one dream: to one day be able to empower women to dare to challenge the status quo of patriarchy. The seed of this vision came from her. The fruit is for all Black women to regain and find adequate nourishment so they can rebuild, restore, reshape, and revive their connection to their original home, Mother Nature. She brought the energy of sharing, to share where appreciation is due. She is here to hug you, feed, you empower you, and remind you of your queenship. With a hope that this too will steer the body, mind, and spirit of anyone coming to this endeavor to do justice to her capacity for building a better, more healing generation to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619132354542-720VTOM3W9AUANU83726/perrypose2.jpg Our Team - Perry Bellemy Perry serves as market garden coordinator for the Young Jupiter Women’s Afro-Tourism Center. His continued service since the Young Jupiter Market Garden’s beginning is evident in the land itself-all this abundance is the fruit of our shared hard work! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1619131049023-IER50AIRT94EA6TVO6G1/Screenshot+2021-04-22+6.36.19+PM.png Our Team - Leons Kabongo, Founder Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/contact daily 0.75 2022-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/1644354727954-VB2LQ4TS52RYPCZHOIUA/unsplash-image-W7oPDwcqccQ.jpg Contact - Contact us. Leons Kabongo youngjupiterfarmmarket@gmail.com (740) 325-2008 https://www.youngjupiterfarmmarket.org/catering daily 0.75 2022-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6067a3c241d56f46d61652bc/67e77b3b-15b8-4570-ab1e-d22be7e0beb2/IMG_6145.jpg Catering - Make it stand out On the Left: Chef Chany. 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