GARDEN KITCHEN LAB

A New Garden Kitchen Lab Community

By: GardenKitchenLab September 9, 2017January 5, 2020

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For our last summer class, we partnered with Iyaho Social Services, a great organization that offers different services to people with disabilities. This lovely group of students enjoyed an afternoon of harvesting, cooking, and preparing their own lunch. A couple of community children volunteered to assist during class, showing that they had learned what the…

Allergic To Salad

By: GardenKitchenLab September 9, 2017January 5, 2020

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Intrigued y the name? Allergic To Salad trains children to become young chefs while eating healthy. Chef Sharolyne Ramirez offered a demo on how to do fruit-kebabs! Almost twenty children participated, had fun, and learned how to be creative when making a fruit salad. Thank you, Andrew Maslowski, for assisting on that day.

Cucumber Avocado Chilled Soup

By: GardenKitchenLab September 9, 2017January 5, 2020

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A perfect summer recipe, refreshing and comfortable for the children to make on their own. The children learn how to cook and bring the methods back home to teach their parents how to go from garden-to-table! This is was our last class with Dianne Bliffeld, our Board of Education teacher who so generously donated her…

Tabouleh Salad, a Lesson on Inclusion

By: GardenKitchenLab September 8, 2017January 5, 2020

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This salad is one of the children’s favorite and brings an opportunity to learn about different cultures through food. The students learn about Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, among other countries where this salad comes from, all the vegetables and herbs come from our garden making this recipe an authentic garden-to-table recipe. Another enjoyable experience with Dianne…

Homemade Pesto Sauce

By: GardenKitchenLab September 8, 2017January 5, 2020

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One of our staple recipes is homemade pesto sauce. We use basil, parsley, cilantro, kale, or spinach. This summer we made a basil pesto sauce kindly donated by Gotham Greens, a worldwide pioneer in hydroponic agriculture using clean energy. #GothamGrows has been one of our sponsors for some years now supplying greens and herbs seedlings…

Garden Kitchen Lab – St. John’s on BRIC TV

By: GardenKitchenLab July 24, 2017January 5, 2020

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We are very proud Garden Kitchen Lab was featured on BRIC TV’s Brooklyn Stories. This local initiative is now offered at Red Hook Recreation Center, Sunset Park Recreation Center and McCarren Playground Recreation Center. This is just the beginning of what Garden Kitchen Lab has to contribute to the communities and NYC Parks, stay tuned!…

Beet Bop A Lula

By: GardenKitchenLab July 24, 2017January 5, 2020

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The children harvested their own beets and used them to make a banana-blueberry-beet smoothie. This has been a popular recipe for a few years now, and we will be introducing other flavor smoothies in the future! Dianne Bliffeld, a new Board of Education volunteer, did an excellent job leading this class.

Broccoli Bonanza at Garden Kitchen Lab-St. John’s!

By: GardenKitchenLab July 24, 2017January 5, 2020

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We had almost 30 pounds of harvested broccoli this year! The children learned how to collect and prepare steamed broccoli during this class. Here are a very proud group of children on that day.

Spring at St. John’s

By: GardenKitchenLab July 23, 2017January 5, 2020

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The St. John’s children starting their 2017 food-producing garden!

Garden Kitchen Lab 2017 Brooklyn Expansion!

By: GardenKitchenLab July 23, 2017January 5, 2020

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Garden Kitchen Lab is proud to announce its Brooklyn expansion to three additional sites! Red Hook Recreation Center, Sunset Park Recreation Center and McCarren Playground Center. This expansion was made possible NYC Parks: Emily Chase, Commissioner for Urban Parks Service and Public Programs; Kendra Van Horn, Director of Programming and Strategic Planning for Recreation; Ed…

GARDEN KITCHEN LAB

About The Program

Our Farms

A New Garden Kitchen Lab Community

Allergic To Salad

Cucumber Avocado Chilled Soup

Tabouleh Salad, a Lesson on Inclusion

Homemade Pesto Sauce

Garden Kitchen Lab – St. John’s on BRIC TV

Beet Bop A Lula

Broccoli Bonanza at Garden Kitchen Lab-St. John’s!

Spring at St. John’s

Garden Kitchen Lab 2017 Brooklyn Expansion!