Each Friday, meet those farmers, producers and landowners through our #Fridaysonthefarm stories. Visit local farms, ranches, forests and resource areas where NRCS and partners help people help the land.
This Friday, we visit Ju’Coby Pitman at the Clara White Mission, a community center and urban farm in Jacksonville, Florida, that not only provides fresh produce to a community, but helps feed and train the homeless.
Nourishing a Community
Below, (left to right) farm director William Byrd picks peas with culinary arts students Wanda James, Joseph Clayton, Simone Roberts and Frankin McAdory. They will prepare the peas to feed the homeless. Produce from the farm also supplies the neighborhood’s farmer’s market, Clara White Mission catering business and Friday’s lunch served at St. John’s Cathedral Church.
Conventional & Progressive
A local chef ladles out a sample of a dish he created with White Harvest Farmer’s Market produce during a demonstration for Jacksonville’s Tour de Farm in November.
Farm to Mission
Clara White Mission Chef Keith Smith teaches culinary student Simone Roberts how to make a custard for the Friday lunch at St. John’s Cathedral.
