Summer Camp
The Lovely Chickpea
Chickpeas can be a great savory snack that is ooh so good for you.
Continue reading »Forts, Lotteries and Good Friends
Tweet The staff at Camp Ballibay is a diverse group of talented people from all over the globe. This year, we had drummers from Scotland, an equestrian expert from Germany and a number of rockers from the UK. We’ve also got some amazing staff who hail from all parts of New York City and enjoy [...]
Continue reading »Learning to Love Compost
Tweet Camp Ballibay is in the middle of their second year of composting food scraps from the kitchen and dining hall. This environmentally friendly strategy reduces waste and creates a nutrient rich supplement for the camp garden. Recently, our giant camp compost bins were moved from outside the kitchen to a more distant location. The [...]
Continue reading »Adventures in Campout Cooking
Tweet Yesterday I wrote about extending campout fare beyond burgers, dogs and s’mores. Today was the day I put theory into action. G1, the youngest cabin of girls, were the subjects of my little food experiment. Tonight at campout, in addition to the usual veggie burgers, dogs and burgers, I tossed some red peppers and [...]
Continue reading »Beyond Hot Dogs & S’mores
Tweet When I’m not busy in the garden, one of the fun aspects of my job as food educator here at summer camp involves joining each cabin of campers on the cooking portion of their campout. As a former Girl Scout leader, there’s nothing I love more than cooking on an open fire. Burgers, hot [...]
Continue reading »Up, Down and all Around
The Ballibay garden and staff continues to teach me all sorts of things
Continue reading »Smoothies
Tweet Today was the long awaited opening day of Camp Ballibay. For me, that means smoothies. As the camp “food expert” my job gives me the opportunity to meet parents as they are dropping off their kids at camp and tell them about how great our food and our garden is this year. I travel [...]
Continue reading »Ode to Mulch
Tweet The more you learn about gardening, the more you come to appreciate mulch. It puts the kabosh on weeds, helps to keep your plant’s roots evenly hydrated, and encourages earthworms, Mother Nature’s rototillers. I haven’t seen many earthworms since I arrived, so I’m hoping that a nice layer of mulch will encourage them. Here [...]
Continue reading »Its the Journey, Not the Product
Tweet This concept is at the core of the Camp Ballibay philosophy. The road that leads to a completed project, artwork or performance is the most valuable to the student, regardless of the final outcome. If the process of development and discovery is positive, then valuable learning and growth have occurred. I’m really glad this [...]
Continue reading »Eating Weeds
Today for lunch at Ballibay we had weeds in our soup. No joke!
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