Our food traditions — what we grow, what we eat, even what we throw away — are among the most tangible ways culture survives across generations. That connection is at the heart of Cocktails & Castoffs.

Moringa comes up fast. While other plants are still deciding whether to grow, it’s already tall and reaching for the light.

When the rains stop and the garden lowers itself down to rest, moringa keeps its leaves. The leaves are stripped fresh into the pot, carrying iron and vitamins, a needed boost for a nursing mother, a growing child, someone left tired and pale from anemia.

But that green matters most when there is least of everything else. The leaves are dried in the shade and crushed into a powder kept in a jar, so that what grew in the wet season goes on feeding families through the dry one.

For twenty years, DIG has partnered with farmers who grow, save, and pass down plants like this one, plants that regenerate soil, nourish health, and sustain communities. Cocktails & Castoffs is a celebration of that knowledge, and an invitation to taste it for yourself, while planting it for others.