S11:E5. 02/03/2024

Femeika "Meik" Elliott, Creator, and Owner of Meik Meals, Knoxville Amy Campbell - The Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast

Today, we are setting the table with pant-based eating and how this helps new moms. Today, my first guest is Meik Elliott, creator, and owner of Meik Meals. This young, black, Knoxville-based entrepreneurial chef creates foods that give us that comfort of taste while using healthier ingredients. Meik encourages people to make lifestyle choices that nurture the body, mind, and soul. She specifically works with postpartum Mothers to help them feel their best through food, education, and meditation with her Lotus program. Meik also speaks to groups throughout the community about her work.

Fred Saucepan’s potluck radio segment features Cherokee poet and storyteller Marilou Awiakta.

Fred Sauceman https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Femika “Meik” Elliott’s businesses and organizations:

The Lotus Experience on Instagram: @thelotusprogameexper website: https://thelotusprogramexperience.org/
Meik Meals: @MeikMeals https://meik-meals.com/
Rooted East: @rootedeastknox website: https://knoxgardenalliance.org/member/rooted-east/
Knox County Community Garden Alliance: @knoxgardenalliance website: https://knoxgardenalliance.org/

Call for volunteers: Volunteers are needed for the Knox County Community Garden Alliance on Sunday nights at 6 PM. Especially Black and East Knoxville community members.

Address: 3907 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Suite 107 Knoxville TN 37914

Phone: (865) 310-1150

Email: Stair@knoxgardenalliance.org

Femika “Meik” Elliott, Founder, Owner of Meik Meals, Rooted East, The Lotus Experience, and Chief of operations of the Knoxville Community Gardens & Growers Alliance. Photo: Amy Campbell, 2021.

Season 8, Episode 21

BattleField Farm & Gardens & the Broccoli Lady

Today we are setting the table with urban community gardening, and broccoli casserole. Our first guest is Chris Battle who created BattleFiled Farms and Gardens in East Knox County his motto is “Fighting food disparity, building community”. We also hear a wonderful short story by Fred Sauceman about the late Glodine Davis of Johnson City known as “The Broccoli Lady” and the recipe and memory of her beloved broccoli casserole.

Links: BattleField Farm and Gardens: https://www.facebook.com/battlefieldfarmandgardens/

Link to a story written by Fred Sauceman that ran in the Johnson City Press February 20, 2018 in memory of Glodine Davis “The Broccoli Lady”.

https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/the-broccoli-lady/article_eee54cc2-a830-59bf-b4fe-4a92267f0ad6.html

Fred Sauceman: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Emi Sunshine (who arranged and sang our our theme song when she was only 9 years old): https://theemisunshine.com/

Glodine Davis “The Broccoli Lady” Broccoli Casserole recipe by way of Fred Sauceman

Ingredients:

2 fresh bunches broccoli, cut into florets and boiled (frozen can be used, but it isn’t as good)

small onion chopped

2 beaten eggs

1 stick of butter cut into thin slices

2 cans cream of mushroom soup

1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese

1 sleeve Ritz crackers crushed / or Townhouse Crackers

Directions:

Boil broccoli florets for about 5 minutes. Drain.

Mix broccoli with 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup, onion, 2 beaten eggs, grated cheddar cheese and butter slices.

Bake at 350 degrees until it is bubbly

And remember “The Broccoli Lady, GLodine K. Davis”

Sadly, Glodine passed away December 2nd, 2017. This is a link to Glodine K. Davis’s obituary. https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/obituary/glodine-k-davis/article_b9cc0151-3806-5bc9-b8e8-dce6136ab93e.html

Chris Battle of BattleField Farm and Gardens: https://www.facebook.com/battlefieldfarmandgardens/

Glodine Davis in her kitchen. This image appeared in an article written by Fred Sauceman in 2018 in the Johnson City Press: https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/the-broccoli-lady/article_eee54cc2-a830-59bf-b4fe-4a92267f0ad6.html