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so the culinary night in the garden was inspired by teaching down the hallway from Patty Farley her excitement about Foods really is contagious so I was looking for a way offer while to somehow collaborate with her my side of the project was kind of do the I guess the organization pieces of it making sure there was an invitation I'm one of the directors for our school garden so making sure that things were still just taking care of the garden so the seat Teamster did a layout of the garden and then they went out and planted the garden we're planting the endzone Garden for the next growing season so in the winter of the C team who's out here they did a math activity where they plot it out and plan what was going to get planted where and how much space the different plants needed to grow so the plants that are put in here they'll get watered intended to all summer long and then we'll start to harvest them and then the culinary students they also Harvest from out here and use some of the food in their Creek program to we started off by actually telling the land making sure is easy to plant stuff in Fertile so we can think of that I can grow then we actually turn it up planter and occasionally we go out water it going to do this project and my foods do and my Advanced culinary students are we went out to the garden and we harvested some of the crops I'm at with Patty and she came up with some awesome ideas about what actually to serve based on what's In the Garden so it did end up being vegetarian which was really exciting to to see fam maybe don't approach meals that way and really you know we're really surprised and excited how delicious it was and that's something that we try to do in the apply. provide students with authentic experiences so that they can understand and have a nice Bridge from high school to the world of work and college and I really believe that this night allowed the students to see what a fast-paced environment working in the food industry needs to be what is in charge of helping a certain group of people put together a salad and teach them how different things were used and how do I create without a bra and so it was interesting to see you like how what people already knew on how to create a lot of it and then what we had to teach them about it I just think it was a great experience be involved in and a great way for people to come together and have a good really we didn't just serve food the community the parents and the students came into the classroom that evening and they actually got to prepare the rest change themselves Patty also Incorporated some cookies using the basil out in the garden which I mean I never would have thought of that so it really was all of the things that you grow in a home garden and I many of the parents that you know we're kind of kidding that they they really don't cook at all or saying that the others was the kind of money that they would have you know I enjoy and high-end restaurant in the cities when we ran the whole thing is really student-driven so we plan the menu Sweet song because it all the recipes before we put them out we typed them up we had cooked specific things that needed turn the for the actual night we set up the dining room and everything but the weather didn't work for us tonight so we had it inside the cafeteria but we was all decorate play the beautiful I really felt kind of like that moment when you walk into the gym on homecoming night where it really does not feel like the gym for first 10 minutes or so so the people came actually we're aware of the fact that they're going to be cooking some actually came in and were like with but we had all this here in our classroom setup so they were cutting boards and irons and all the tools that we would need to assemble salads and so from there we talk basic knife skills for the kale salad specifically it was a shift or not so it's when you roll up your sleeves and you do kind of ribbon so it looks basically the same the maybe the most proud was definitely the the dinner at the end we all kind of sat down and ate because we were in the kitchen most times car preparing and then close to the end we are all according to the lunch room where it was a beautiful dinner I mean was candles and an ornate napkins is very nice I believe food always is a great conversation starter it's a great way to pull people together and have a sense of community around food so there is one bread based salad where we added like basil that we picked fresh and the tomatoes were fresh and all the other salad was a kale cranberry salad which we added pine nuts too and we made our own vinaigrette we did the summer shaved squash salad that play apps that I have to be honest with you the recipes really were outstanding the kids did a great job of researching and casting the one hot dish was the zucchini tomato casserole so that was with breadcrumbs and onions and cheese and all that good stuff we've been an exciting thing to try and you know sort of reinvent as you're evolving as an educator to always just look for what's another way that you can get kid's involve and I'm excited after all of this we did a reflection piece in the students especially my Advanced Foods kids had to do entire right up on when you work with the tomatoes or when you work with the zucchini what are some of the tips and tricks that you need to know what are some cooking your culinary techniques that are going to benefit you in putting this recipe together you know got in some of those common core standards along with just pure fun just lovely it's just lovely idea of funding over something so essential to human life like a nourishing your body and you can sure that was anybody like you don't have to be a professional to whip up a small salad like it's something easy you can teach and it's it's fun to see if he that want to be involved in that they want to learn those willing to like let you teach them and then go ahead and share the meal that you all made together because students think they can just a lot of us we think we can just come in and prepare a meal and then go out but when you take it to that next level as far as career preparation you're really held accountable so much more tell it was a night that really was the best of what education has to offer as far as clever eating with other Educators collaborating with stew collaborating with families and it'll so often education can be so challenging for everyone involved because of the high stakes that all of us have in school community and this really seem to cannot hearken back to the ideals of what you hope for education and why you get into teaching to begin with just because you like to be with people and you like to learn

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