Community In Action
Learning with Lil’ Sprouts: Pasta Salad
Learning with Lil' Sprouts: Pasta Salad How best to keep a dozen kids grades K-4 engaged in a cooking class? I ask myself this as I start my first semester teaching two classes with Lil’ Sprouts. The answer, it turns out, is not...
At Home Soil Conservation
At Home Soil Conservation The use of fertile land for crops is essential for our society. However, a report on agriculture notes that US soil is seeing high soil degradation and a drop in soil fertility. To make up for this loss, farmers...
Learning with Lil’ Sprouts: Homemade Dressing and Salad
Learning with Lil' Sprouts: Homemade Dressing and Salad I don’t like salad! is the first response of most students when I tell them we are making a dressing and salad for cooking class. You don’t have to like it, but you may have...
Fall Recipe: Swedish Apple Cake
Fall Recipe: Swedish Apple Cake One of my favorite things about fall, without a doubt, is the food. The scents, tastes, and memories that surround autumn dishes always make me look forward to the cooler weather and falling leaves. One...
Combatting College Food Waste
Combatting College Food Waste Since moving away for college, and having to buy ingredients and cook food on my own, I’ve become very aware of how fast my food sours, spoils or even sprouts. I’ve found that when purchasing produce to make...
Beekeeping in the Burbs
Beekeeping in the Burbs I'm a mom to three young boys which means our days are full of lots of silliness, crazy energy, some screaming and of course, laughter. It also means that with all of the extra energy that three boys ages four,...
Getting Started with Native Plants
Getting Started with Native Plants The Colorado Native Plant Society hosts an annual conference early every spring, for which the keynote in 2022 was the great ecologist, Doug Tallamy. His presentation challenged what has become the...
Getting Your Garden Ready for Spring
Getting Your Garden Ready for Spring Though it can be hard to believe with all of the recent snow, the days are getting longer and warmer and it’s time to start preparing your garden for spring! Check Your SeedsIf you plan to start your...
Samples, Dumplings & Community
SAMPLES, DUMPLINGS & COMMUNITY I’ve never really wanted to leave the table. As a kid, I’d sit in the kitchen well after the dishes were dried and the lights were dimmed and finish my meal. There was always an adventure at the plate,...