Growing Custom Greens for Chefs
Did you know that we work directly with restaurants to test out new products? We meet with chefs to discover their favorite flavor profiles and customize our grows to meet individual chef and restaurant needs. We even create personalized blends for specific dishes.
This partnership has led to more options in the greenhouse, and, we like to think, to more creativity on the dishes you order from local Jackson restaurants. In fact, our new petite blends (premiering in our Winter Farm Share and on grocery shelves soon after) evolved from trials and tests we conducted with our partner chefs. You’ll be hearing more about these three new microgreen mixes soon.
Profiling Dishes Crafted with Vertical Harvest Greens
Our newly designed email newsletter will profile chef creations each month, like the Elk carpaccio with black garlic pine nuts, aoli, and Vertical Harvest pea shoots shown above. Crafted by the talented chefs at Old Yellowstone Garage restaurant in Teton Village, this “very Wyoming” dish is just one example of how our greens can enliven meals around town.
Our greens can enliven your kitchen creativity, as well, and we encourage you to experiment and let us know what you learn! Share your creations with us and the community at large on social media with the hashtag #govertical. We just might feature your recipe or creation here on our blog, on our Instagram feed, or in our newsletter.
![We sat down to talk with disability advocate, civil rights lawyer and entrepreneur, Gina Kline. Here is what we learned!
🔍What is Social Security Income?
"The Social security system was conceived during a time with great economic inequality in this country. It is part of the very important fabric of the Public Safety Net in the United States and many of the folks that are qualified for Social Security are among the most economically vulnerable Americans and have the most sort of obvious or material unmet needs in terms of healthcare as well."
🗝What are the eligibility requirements of benefits?
"The Social Security eligibility is really a means tested program. Which means that folks that folks are eligible or below a certain income threshold and also have medical needs. There's a medical documentation part of it and a income documentation part of but on balance what it means is that you have not access to a certain level of income and you have disability needs."
💡What are the current issues that individuals face when receiving SSI benefits?
"For a while there is a low current threshold on the amount of savings that people Americans with Disabilities can have at any given time. I believe it hasn't been updated since the 19 early 1980s so that's how it's not it's not chained to the current cost of living with a disability. So, what we have is a community that is searching for viable upward mobility, meaningful work in a world in which so often people are given a Hobson's choice between being able to save and save for a rainy day and being able to access health care and needed benefits and support from these programs."
Watch the full video on youtube linked in our bio!
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