Your Food, Your Choice- Resources
Here are links to all the resources I spoke about at the Toronto Organic Growers Conference.
Continue reading »30 Soups in 30 Days: Stone Soup
Want kids to fall in love with vegetable soup? Cook up a batch of Stone Soup with them!
Continue reading »Summer Reading
Tweet I was fortunate to have a bright sunny week at the beach last week. I unplugged as best as I could and caught up on some reading. Thanks to a speed reading course I took freshman year in college, I’m a voracious reader. After spending much of my summer in a camp garden, my [...]
Continue reading »The CDC and Childhood Obesity: Thinking Outside the Box
School food reform is not about building a better nugget for the cafeteria or pumping up the pizza with whole wheat crust and low fat cheese. What we must do is raise the Food IQ and transform the culture of food in each and every school district in the USA. Here’s how.
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 »Fun @ Camp is About to Begin
Camp Ballibay is leading the way in camp food that is fun and delicious.
Continue reading »Coming in at 2nd Place….
Goldfish crackers came in 2nd in Time Magazine’s list of Kid’s Foods to Avoid. Here’s a better alternative.
Continue reading »Weed Walk
Tweet I spent some time this morning pulling up weeds in my lawn and my flower beds. Weeds never cease to amaze and inspire me. I can learn loads from their persistence and resilience. Even better than that, I can supplement my lunch! My lawn hasn’t been sprayed with anything for the past 12 years, [...]
Continue reading »The Best Summer Job
Tweet Looking for a great summer job? This opportunity can’t be beat. Camp Ballibay is a magical place and the food is part of that magic. I had the honor of working in the camp kitchen last summer and I’ll be returning this summer to work in the garden and the kitchen. If you’re passionate [...]
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