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It is also a wonderful natural dye which the students were able to experiment with when making holiday gifts from plants to bring home to their families. At every cooking class Vega was surrounded by kids, who were wondering what she was going to help them cook or what they might get to taste-test next. Home Featured Donate. Bananas rolled in amaranth. Schlaich says Vega was excited to be involved and connecting with community members around garden-based and nutrition education, especially with the kids. Parents then went through the preparation steps for the featured recipe. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Vega was also excited to work with all of the fifth-grade classes in Bishop that included students from the reservation and from the City of Bishop. The class ended with a fun activity for the whole family such as painting clay pots and planting cooking herbs or designing a fruit basket to take home to an elder. Notify me of new posts by email. The seeds can be used in stews, ground into flour, or eaten like porridge. Also, the parents who attended the class were able to take home the meal that had been prepared in class that day. The amaranth became so popular with the students that the small health food store in town ran out of amaranth. Bowannie , First Nations Communications Officer. While the youngest students were cooking up fun at the Head Start kitchens, the middle school students were busy outside in the gardens tending their own growing plots, and learning about a plant not indigenous to their area. Vega would provide support with the nutrition education lessons during the day with the Head Start students, and later in the evenings was involved in the eight-week cooking series for the Head Start families. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}Each week the class featured a new fruit or vegetable in recipes that the FSP cooked in advanced to share with participants as a taste-test. It was definitely a huge support that made the garden-based and nutrition education components of the Food Sovereignty Program much stronger. She also worked with all children at BIHS and their families from the reservation. While the parents were trying out the new recipes, the kids were engaged in simple cooking activities that incorporated the same fruit or vegetable that their parents were learning about. Visit First Nations. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Schlaich says the partnerships, and the funding support from First Nations were key to their success. Your email address will not be published.