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Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with Apple Cider Vinaigrette
What to do with a massive harvest of butternut squash in July? Make a summer salad of course! Thanks to our “Three Sisters” garden lessons that took place at Mitchell Elementary this Spring, we ended up with over 50 pounds of this versatile veggie. The Three Sisters lesson teaches the importance of intercropping, using Squash, […]
Pass the Peas My Way Please!
Oh SNAP, we’ve harvested BUNCHES of Snap Peas from our school gardens this March! Snap Peas are from the vegetable family of legumes (think beans, nuts, and grains) and are most notably a great source of Vitamin C. This powerful vitamin is water-soluble and has rich antioxidant powers to boost immunity and health! Straight from […]
What’s Cooking this February? Cooking Matters!
At the Green Heart Project our mission is to connect students to healthy food – whether that be through the garden classroom or the kitchen classroom. We believe that cooking is just love made visible– and our big green hearts are filled with excitement to start serving up goodness in the kitchen this February! Thanks to a generous […]
Le Creuset Your Way into the Fall Season
As sweet potatoes, pumpkins, squash, swiss chard, turnips and all sorts of other fall vegetables and produce are just around the corner, those old beat-up casserole dishes, worn out skillets, and dull knifes are going to do you no good. However, there’s no need to worry! With Le Creuset’s first ever Factory-to-Table Sales Event coming […]
We’re on a Roll!
If you’ve ever had a fruit roll-up you know they’re delicious and oh-so easy (and fun!) to munch on while on the go. The trouble is, commercial fruit roll-ups we find in stores are heavy on artificial ingredients, sugars, sodium, carbs, and are light on nutrition. The result? A not-so-healthy yet expensive snack. So when […]