Okra Party! and Potluck 2025

Okra Flower

Student Farm Ecological Garden
Student Farm Ecological Garden

Okra Party! and Potluck

aka Okra-Chile Cook-off
featuring the African Food Basket Project

Join us to celebrate seasonal abundance and cultural connection. Used all over the country and world in creative and delicious ways, okra is a plant worthy of celebration. Chile peppers too!

This event is free and kid friendly. RSVP is not necessary, but helps with planning. Please use the link below to let us know if you are planning to come, and if you are interested in volunteering at the event. 

RSVP & Volunteer Sign Up

Okra Party Activities
  • 4:30-5:30 Music, Crafts, & Tour of the African Food Basket Project 
  • 5:30 Welcome & Introduction of Foods
  • 6:00-7:00 Eating & Connecting
  • 7:00 Closing, Prizes & Share Out

Free Produce Pick-up

If you would like to cook a dish for the potluck using Student Farm produce, the farm will be providing free produce, including chilis (sweet and hot), eggplants, tomatoes, and potatoes. Produce will be available for pickup on the following dates:
  • Friday, September 6th, from 1-8pm: Produce will be available in the CSA Lockers just off Extension Center Drive -- look for the trailer and small CSA lockers along the gravel road as you drive west on Extension Center Drive (google map)
  • Monday, September 9th, from 12-3pm: Produce will be available at the Farmstand (before 3pm) or CSA Lockers (after 3pm) just off Extension Center Drive, west of Orchard Park (google map)

Share Your Recipes

We plan to compile recipes (or rough notes!) to share the Okra Party and Potluck. Please bring your recipe to the event, along with your dish! "Recipes" can be informal, handwritten, downloaded - whatever you want to share - and there is no obligation to share your recipe.
 

** There is currently construction on Extension Center Drive. Plan to arrive to the Student Farm by driving south on Orchard Park Drive from Russel Blvd or Blue Ridge Rd. You cannot turn onto Extension Center Drive from Hutchison

Okra in a bowl

Photo above by Mirko Sajkov on Unsplash

Photo at top by Amber Malquist on Unsplash