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Growing Uptown —Recipe Cards

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Tabouleh Salad, a Lesson on Inclusion

By: GardenKitchenLab September 8, 2017October 20, 2022

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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…

“I smelled peppermint leaves and tomatoes, it was fun.”

“In gardening class, we made pesto sauce, beet-berries-banana smoothie, steamed broccoli, quinoa salad, radish avocado toast, and tabouleh. We collect vegetables from the garden, then we went upstairs to cut the vegetables like radish and cucumbers.” “I liked the beet banana smoothie because, to me, it tasted like a strawberry smoothie. I loved the quinoa…

Tabouleh.

By: GardenKitchenLab September 3, 2016October 14, 2022

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You pay attention to what the garden is giving that day or week, and you plan ahead. Garden Kitchen Lab teaches how to grow food, and how to eat healthily, but it also exposes children to new flavors and smells. It educates the kids’ palates and encourages them to explore through their senses. Tabouleh or…

July: Growing In So Many Ways

We ended the Spring Session with the afterschool students releasing Monarch butterflies and celebrating an early harvest. The students prepared a salad with strawberries, cucumbers, tomatoes, chives, Swiss chard, three types of basil, Italian oregano, spearmint, and chocolate mint. The children were introduced to shiitake mushrooms; which they had not eaten before. Here some of…

June’s Harvest!

The kids have been working in the garden almost every afternoon. They have learned how to plant, how to use the tools properly, how to measure and distribute the plant area correctly, so when plants grow are not so close to each other. They really like to use the weed grabbers and have been cleaning…