Join in the party as we kick-off festivites for Blue Plate Special Cafe
Gracie Cavnar: August 2008 Archives
Not only did these fourth and fifth grade groups continue to hone their cooking and gardening skills, over the course of four weeks, they each focused on a special project.
The Food Marketing Group at MacGregor researched, developed, tested, created, packaged and marketed their own healthy food product. Over the course of the program the children learned all about how food is marketed to them. Then they turned the tables to apply their newly acquired skills to the development of a healthy packaged food using produce from their 1/4 acre Recipe Garden. What was the final product? Rainbow Ribbons, brightly colored handmade fettuccini noodles created by adding beets, spinach and basil, and other garden fresh goodies to their basic homemade pasta recipe.
The Jr. Master Gardener Group at MacGregor worked to get their full accreditation
and completed all of the projects necessary to receive the Golden Ray recognition in garden nutrition. They also operated a Farmers Market, harvested food for snacks and "sold" produce to the Marketing Class to use in their pasta.
All of the children took 3 movement breaks each day to enjoy a variety of exercise opportunities from walking, to yoga and dance movement class.
Dr. Allen Inspects the Produce
The Market Stand at MacGregor
Rainbow Ribbons Handmade Pasta for Sale
In June, photographer Mark Leibowitz flew in from Los Angeles, Gracie flew back to Houston from Vermont, we rounded up Chef Randy Evans and all met at MacGregor Elementary School to do a photo shoot for Cookie magazine. Recipe for Success operates a Summer Camp at MacG with Team Leader Carlos Meltzer and his kids were more than happy to participate in the fun. The story about the creation of Recipe for Success will be a "Mothers of Invention" feature in the Conde Nast pulbished magazine.
