Fireside Garden Project

For over a year now my wife Lucy has been actively trying to get my son’s elementary school to start a garden project.  Today we broke ground.  In an hour and 45 minutes, we broke ground, took away all the turf and filled the plot with compost rich topsoil.

It was amazing to see how many people came to help out on the project.  Parents, teachers and their children working together as well as some volunteer students from CU who were assigned to write a paper about the project.

Laura Ruby was there representing the Growe Foundation who was kind enough to provide the funding to get this project off the ground.

Future farmer

Even if you can't reach it, try anyway. He was also trying to eat a cookie at the same time.

Worm patrol

My son Paris

Then the dirt came. Time for king of the mountain

I know I have mostly talked about food and teaching on this blog, but this project is also very close to my heart.

Every spring I look forward to planting my own garden and watching it grow.  My kids participate and we eat what we plant.  There is no more powerful connection to the earth than that.

I’m glad to see this movement taking place in our country.  The connections our children will make to the source of food will be permanent.

To all that participated thank you and thank you Growe Foundation.

IACP is opening up some Master Classes and Tours to the public

In order to increase sales in this dour economic climate the IACP has agreed to open up a bunch of their Culinary Day Trips and Master Classes to the public.  I do not have the complete list of the events open to the public but as soon as I have them I will make them available.

I believe they will be allowing the public to purchase tickets to the Andoni Aduriz class which should be one of the top events of the conference.  The class will take place at the Johnson & Wales campus in their large demo auditorium. We are very privileged to have Andoni come to Denver.  I ate at his restaurant in 2004 and it was one to the best meals of my life.   He is a disciple of Ferran Adria and considered by many to be the second most talented chef in Spain.  He is a very nice man and you can tell that he is completely devoted to his art.   If you have the opportunity to go…do it.

Click on the IACP link above and see if you can sign up for this event.

Stay tuned for more info.