Making Salsa

Cooking is an important part of seed to table education, and we harvest and cook with kids as often as we can in our programming.

We think that if kids see their food go from seed to plant to plate, they're more likely to give it a try!  We enjoyed some of our edible plants this past week by making salsa!

We were able to harvest cherry tomatoes and bell pepper from the greenhouse.

Everyone had a job in the kitchen, from grating onion to pressing garlic and cutting tomatoes, everyone was able to contribute to the finished product!  

You can see our salsa recipe right here...try it yourself!

Hopes and Dreams for Farm Camp

We began our early release farm camp by talking about our hopes and dreams for our time in the garden this fall.  It was great to hear all of the kids' ideas!

I hope I learn more recipes and catch the really fast chicken!

I hope I can pick berries and flowers.

I hope that we play with the animals and learn different recipes and rub flowers on paper!

I hope we do lots of art.

I thought that I was going to a farm, but its a lot better than that. 

I hope I learn recipes and I hope I meet the sheep.

Lucky for our campers, we are going to do all of these things!  We're looking forward to an autumn full of cooking, art, animals, and gardening.