Event Menu

Food prepared with love by Irucka Ajani or Obiora, the future growers of your food:

  • Long Island Cheese Pumpkin Soup
    • Long Island Cheese Pumpkin (from Berea Urban Farm)
    • Spring Water
    • Organic Carrot
    • Organic Turnip
    • Organic Red Onion
    • Organic Ceylon Cinnamon
    • Black Peppercorns (ground with Turkish Grinder)
    • Pink Himalayan Sea Salt (ground with a molcajete [aka mortar and pestle])
    • Organic Ginger
    • Organic Clove
    • Nutmeg
    • Slow Bolt Coriander seeds (grown by Obiora & ground with a molcajete [aka mortar and pestle])
    • Organic Bay Leaves
    • Arrowroot

  • Whole Wheat Buttermilk Biscuits
    • Soft Red Winter Wheat/Stone Ground Whole Wheat Pastry Flour (from Weisenberger Mill)
    • Soft Red Winter Wheat/Unbleached All‐Purpose Flour (from Weisenberger Mill)
    • Buttermilk (from JD Country Milk)
    • Organic All‐Vegetable Shortening
    • Aluminum‐Free Baking Powder
    • Baking Soda
    • Pink Himalayan Sea Salt (ground with a molcajete [aka mortar and pestle])

  • Vegan Gluten‐Free Biscuits
    • Potato Starch
    • Almond Flour
    • Arrowroot
    • Pink Himalayan Sea Salt (ground with a mortar and pestle [aka molcajete])
    • Aluminum‐Free Baking Powder
    • Organic All‐Vegetable Shortening
    • Coconut Milk

  • Salad
    • Organic Romaine Lettuce
    • Organic Red Leaf Lettuce
    • Organic Lacinato "Dinosaur" Kale
    • Fennel
    • Red Cabbage
    • Organic Carrot
    • Celery
    • Organic Red Beet
    • Organic Red and Orange Bell Peppers
    • Organic Italian Flat Leaf Parsley
    • Organic Cilantro
    • Black Mustard Greens (grown by Obiora)
    • Cranberries
    • Roasted Long Island Cheese Pumpkin seeds
    • Victory Hemp Hemp seeds
    • Bouquet Dill seeds (grown by Obiora)
    • Rosemary (harvested by Obiora)
    • Organic Sweet Basil
    • Organic Oregano
    • Organic Thyme
    • Organic Yellow Mustard seeds
    • Celery seeds
    • Black Walnuts

  • Hot Herbal Tea
    • Borage leaves and flowers (grown by Obiora)
    • Yarrow flowers and leaves (grown by and/or wildcrafted by Obiora)
    • Elderberry flowers (wildcrafted by Obiora)
    • Lemon Balm (harvested by Obiora)
    • Holy Basil (grown by Obiora)
    • Spring Water

  • Herb Granita (dessert)
    • Spring Water
    • Organic Raw Cane Sugar
    • Tall Goldenrod (wildcrafted by Obiora)
    • Winged Sumac (harvested by Obiora)
    • White Yarrow leaves (wildcrafted by Obiora)
    • Holy Basil (harvested by Obiora)
    • Pine Needles (wildcrafted by Obiora)
    • Rose Hips (wildcrafted by Obiora)

  • Chestnut Cake (dessert)
    • Chinese Chestnuts (harveested by Obiora & from Martin Acres)
    • Organic Raw Cane Sugar
    • Aluminum‐Free Baking Powder
    • Organic Free Range Brown Eggs
    • Salted Butter

  • Homemade Lemon Lime Cumin Vinaigrette (prepared by Irucka Ajani) — modified from Lime–Cumin Vinaigrette and Winter Herb Vinaigrette from Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison
    • Coriander (powder)
    • Ground Mix (freshly pan roasted Peppercorn Mix, Cumin seed, Organic Yellow Mustard seed, White Sesame seed, and Fennel seed & then ground in a stone molcajete {mortar and pestle})
    • Frontier Co–op Organic Stinging Nettle Leaf {dried, cut & sifted}
    • Organic white Garlic
    • Organic Lemon (zest and juice)
    • Organic Lime (zest and juice)
    • Organic Shallot
    • Organic Cilantro
    • Organic Sage
    • Organic Tarragon
    • Organic Basil
    • Organic Dill
    • HimalaSalt Primordial Himalaya Sea Salt (coarse grain)
    • Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil

  • Tall Goldenrod Jelly
    • Wildcrafted Goldenrod Tea (Spring Water & Tall Goldenrod flowers, leaves, and stems—steeped overnight)
    • Organic Raw Cane Sugar
    • Homemade Apple Pectin (Organic Granny Smith Apples and Spring Water)
    • Organic Lime juice (freshly squeezed)


If you are interested in attending a workshop or class by Getting Back to Nature™ in 2019, please contact us to sign up for an alert when the dates have been set.

Why a Fundraiser?

Five years ago, we, Irucka Ajani and Obiora Embry, embarked on a quest to turn marginal grazing land into resilient land that feeds us, our collective community, pollinators, etc. We have completed our first leg of this journey using only our own funds.

As we move into the next phase, we are reaching out to our collective community (i.e., think of crowdfunding) near and far to help us acquire new plants, equipment, tools, supplies, and more so that we can bring more of our ideas for our two acres to fruition.

Although this is the first year that we have attempted to sell anything, we decided to do something different as we begin the next phase: to develop our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) through our first event—there will be limited samples of our current products. And you will meet the "growers of your food" and learn about the land that has chosen to be used by us on this journey.


Item Item Price Item Status All American 930 30 Quart Pressure Canner $699.98 Need two (2) @ $349.99 Automatic Black Walnut, Hickory, etc. Nutcracker $499.00 Need one (1) Ohaus, Valor® 4000 Compact Bench Scale $295.95 Purchased one (1) but need one (1) more Stainless Steel and Cedar Seed Cleaning Screens, Set of 8 $199.50 Need one (1)

Table 1: Our Wish List for Fall 2018 Fundraiser: A Celebration of Nature and Family