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campfire stories: discovering an un-bee-lievable community
posing with our new friends at Harlem Grown! It’s hard to know where to begin with a week as un-bee-lievable as this third week at Butter Beans Food + Garden Summer Camp. Each day left our counselors...
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summer vegetable quesadillas
It’s summertime, and while our campers have been inspiring us with their daily explorations of the summer bounty, their explorations have inspired us to make a summer vegetable quesadilla using the...
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swiss chard slaw
With so much summer produce growing at this time of year, Butter Beans campers have been busy transforming produce into spectacular dishes. One dish that we wanted to highlight was our swiss chard slaw...
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campfire stories: growing the magic of summer
Today Butter Beans Food & Garden summer campers celebrate the final day of camp for the 2015 season. In the eight weeks since our summer camp began, nearly 100 students have come through the Food...
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One Summer Morning at Stone Barns Farm Camp
Sitting among the soft rolling hills of Tarrytown, New York, resides Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture – the rural outpost of Dan Barber’s Blue Hill restaurant and the nonprofit educational...
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DIY earth-friendly recipe for sowing seeds
During each camp session at Butter Beans Food & Garden Summer Camp, our budding chefs & gardeners bring in repurposed planters that would otherwise end up in the recycling bin or landfill....
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summer camp early bird special!
Early Bird Camp Special Ends Tuesday, March 15th Sign up for our Food & Garden Summer Camp before the early bird flies away! As spring approaches each year, our camp team becomes increasingly...
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Meet Brooklyn’s Newest Food Bloggers
Much like this abundance of summer sun and sweet produce, Butter Bean’s Food and Garden Camp has been full of sweet shining campers. One of my favorite parts about working with our campers for an...
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summer camp reflections
One of my favorite recipes I’ve made with the young chefs during summer camp was Chipotle stuffed sweet potato skins. They loved to scoop out the baked sweet potato from its skin. They jumped at the...
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Teaching Young Kids About Sustainability
Campers on a field trip to the farmers market to meet the local workers who supply our food. How do you define sustainability? Some people think of it in political terms: encouraging farms and...
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