To Do: 4th Annual Collards Cook-Off set for Oct. 23 in Columbus

We have the callers cook off. This is the fourth one. It's just a fun day to bring the community together and honor the people that taught us these recipes, that taught us how to grow food, how to cook food. Last year was my first time in the competition and I had a really good time. I won second place. It really means something to me. It makes me remember my mother. My mother is in heaven. She died in 2013 and it's just a good memory of my mom. My collard greens name is Rosemary's Mean Green Supremes and it's dedicated to my mother. So ever since eight or nine I had to help her wash them. I had to help them clean. I was there when she was boiled down the meat and seasoned them up real good. My dad's favorite food is collard greens so we had them almost once a week. The greens are growing so good. They are large and charged and ready to be cooked. The chefs will pick up the collards from this farm on Tuesday. They'll start preparing them and cooking them for that Friday afternoon. But all the collards that they will be cooking will be coming from Mercy Med Farm. There may be a small portion that comes from Jenny Jack Farm or Little Fox Farm. You should have around 100 bunches of collard greens for you to purchase and try the recipes that you love. This really launches into our collard season and we'll have collards all the way through May now. Come out celebrate our community that's out here and the community that can't share this with us today but taught us how to enjoy life.