Have you ever ever heard of parirutong? What about kalingag, kulitis, and sampinit?
These substances, maybe unfamiliar to some, are only a few that will likely be featured at Gulay Pa Extra!, the Philippines’ first ever fiesta celebrating native and indigenous crops. The occasion is occurring on Might 25, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., on the CSSP (AS) Parking Lot throughout the College of the Philippines (UP) Diliman.
Gulay Pa Extra! turns the highlight on the nation’s ample native and endemic flora, how these can be utilized in plant-based dishes, and the normal cooking strategies behind them. It can additionally showcase meals improvements from varied cooks utilizing heritage, indigenous, and native substances.
Attendees, too, can sit up for an natural produce market from small holder farmers, native vegan product stalls by micro and small companies, studying classes on meals and agriculture, two free native tree walks round UP campus, in addition to tributes to the late Lumad lady chief Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay and the late Filipino botanist and plant taxonomist Leonardo Co.
Apart from highlighting heritage meals and indigenous crops, the occasion additionally goals to unfold consciousness about excessive climate occasions introduced on by the local weather disaster like drought, typhoons, and heatwaves, and why indigenous meals ought to take priority on this “new regular.”
Gulay Pa Extra! held its press launch on Might 12, the place it shared a preview of the unfold, substances, merchandise, and classes that one can anticipate on the fiesta.
“These crops are key to our meals safety and local weather resilience, and Gulay Pa Extra! is our means of inviting folks to have a good time and defend them by ensuring they continue to be in our diets,” stated chef Lao Castillo, one of many occasion’s organizers and co-founder of meals heritage non-profit group Gulay Na.
Gulay Pa Extra! is organized by Gulay Na!, social enterprise Good Meals Group, agroecology advocate community Agroecology X, meals heritage digital archive Lokalpedia, Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pagunlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG), and the Poverty Discount by means of Social Entrepreneurship (PRESENT) Coalition.
— CDC, GMA Built-in Information
