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Farm Fresh & Fabulous

An Interactive Farmers’ Market Nutrition & Culinary Demo Program

Could your farmers’ market or stand benefit from a Certified Community Food Educator presenting multi-cultural meal strategies for market shoppers? Farm Fresh & Fabulous does just that,  market-goers learn to:

  • cook using fresh, seasonal produce
  • understand nutrition fundamentals while having fun
  • be adventurous and try new farm fresh veggies with friends and family
  • develop professional knife skills so cutting veggies is easy
  • practice cooking with kids to encourage healthy eating

This curriculum is designed for a tabletop in any farmer’s market. It was created at the request of the Bronx District Public Health Office of NYC,  to acquaint visitors to neighborhood farmers’ markets with easy and appealing meal preparations using a wide variety of fresh produce (herbs, leafy greens, and other colorful peppers, squashes, onion etc.)

The curriculum guides you, the Demonstrator, in preparing up to 18 different seasonal meals—2 per demonstration—at a farmers’ market, designed to accommodate 4-6 kids and/or adults to assist in the preparation with you.  Each full demonstration, includes both a salad-type concept and a hot preparation concept designed to be fast, easy and healthful utilizing a wide variety of produce with infinite variations

This program offers tools for educators to teach seasonality, and identify a wide variety of veggies and herbs by pictures, and describes common ways to prepare them. Additional tools include Spanish Translation of recipes. The required FamilyCook training ensures that the educators who will conduct it learn food-safe practices, public speaking skills, basic culinary and knife skills, and safe practices for inviting children to help!

 

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Edible Lessons for Your School or Community Garden

Seasonal Extensions for Gardening

There are plenty of excellent school garden curricula available, but not a lot  of recipes and lessons for early harvest in spring, before the ‘nightshade’ and other crops come in later in summer, after school is out.  FamilyCook however has a variety of recipes and lessons for all ages that are either specific to this May/June harvest or can be adapted to be prepared with such early-harvest ‘cops’ as:

  • Edible flowers
  • Herbs
  • Leafy greens such as rainbow chard and spinach
  • Radishes
  • Pea shoots
  • String beans


Contact Us with your garden plan and we’ll recommend some recipe and lesson extensions for your age group.

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