Kids Cook Lunch!

A hands-on summer feeding program at the East Whatcom Regional Resource Center Over the past year, a delicious partnership has been forming between the EWRRC and Common Threads, a Bellingham-based nonprofit that helps kids fall in love with healthy food through...
Moments from Spring Break at Regency and Sterling Meadows

Moments from Spring Break at Regency and Sterling Meadows

During Spring Break this year, some of our Food Educators led cooking activities at both Regency and Sterling Meadows apartment complexes. Keep reading to hear some of the highlights! Our first day at each site was  “Exercise & Health Day.” We danced Zumba,...
Just Cook!: Kids Supper Clubs

Just Cook!: Kids Supper Clubs

by Sophie Nicholakos, AmeriCorps Food Educator “What do I do now?”, Octavio asked after we finished opening and rinsing cans of chickpeas for the Chana Masala we were making. “Well,” I  said, “Do you want to help me recycle these cans?” Octavio had never recycled cans...
Three Sisters Stew: Filling our minds and bellies

Three Sisters Stew: Filling our minds and bellies

by Ellie Twitty, AmeriCorps Food Educator For millennia, from Mexico to Montana, women have mounded up the earth and laid three specific seeds in the ground – all in the same square foot of soil. There are many stories of how the three seeds came to be, but they...
A Winter Borscht Tale: “I just had to find out”

A Winter Borscht Tale: “I just had to find out”

Written by Lindsay Williams, one of our AmeriCorps Food Educators “Cabbage!”  “Carrots!” “Garlic!”  “Onion!” “Salt and pepper!”  “Olive oil!” “Lemon!” “Beets!” These were the sounds of students joyfully shouting out the ingredients of borscht pictured on a PowerPoint...