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Our palate education program makes news!

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The Princeton Packet wrote a piece about NJDA Secretary Doug Fisher’s visit to Community Park School in celebration of Garden State on Your Plate. On the day of the visit, our program featured broccoli leaves grown by Farmer Jess Niederer of Chickadee Creek Farm and Princeton University chefs. For more information on how Garden State on Your Plate began, click here.

Garden State on Your Plate hosts NJDA Secretary Doug Fisher, Mayor Liz Lempert

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From left, NJDA Secretary Doug Fisher; Rose Tricario, director of NJDA Division of Food and Nutrition; Princeton Mayor and PPS parent Liz Lempert; and a student with a sample portion of broccoli leaf slaw.
From left, NJDA Secretary Doug Fisher; Rose Tricario, director of NJDA Division of Food and Nutrition; Princeton Mayor and PPS parent Liz Lempert; and a student with a sample portion of broccoli leaf slaw.

Chickadee Creek Farm Broccoli Leaf Slaw.
Chickadee Creek Farm Broccoli Leaf Slaw.
Group of officials talking
From left, Smitha Haneef, PPS parent and executive director of PU Campus Dining; Erin Metro, PU Community and Regional Affairs, funder of Garden State on Your Plate program for SY 2014 and SY 2015; Steve Cochrane, PPS superintendent and PU alum; NJDA Secretary Doug Fisher.
Broccoli leaves from Chickadee Creek Farm and Farmer Jess Niederer were stars alongside NJDA Secretary Doug Fisher at our Garden State on Your Plate event at Community Park Elementary School in early October.
Broccoli leaves from Chickadee Creek Farm and Farmer Jess Niederer were stars alongside NJDA Secretary Doug Fisher at our Garden State on Your Plate event at Community Park Elementary School in early October.
Chef Dan Slobodien of Princeton University's Campus Dining Services.
Chef Dan Slobodien of Princeton University’s Campus Dining Services.

New kitchen sinks and faucets from a new partner

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BEFORE: Janet Gaudino, 8th grade science teacher and advisor to JW Cooks, at the small double-basin sinks that date the Teaching Kitchens to a time when very little food was made from whole ingredients. Check back soon for the AFTER picture!
BEFORE: Janet Gaudino, 8th grade science teacher and advisor to JW Cooks, at the small double-basin sinks that date the Teaching Kitchens to a time when very little food was made from whole ingredients. Check back soon for the AFTER picture!

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with Debbie Schaefer and Mrs G’s Appliances for the benefit of food literacy efforts at Princeton Public Schools.

Debbie, granddaughter of the original Mrs G (Beatrice Greenberg) is donating 5 new single-basin stainless steel sinks and high-rise faucets from Mrs G’s for updating the JW Teaching Kitchens. Gary Weisman, Director of Plant Operations at PPS, will supervise the renovations under the director of Jason Burr, principal at the John Witherspoon Middle School.

The kitchens, once used for Home Economics classes, and more recently for Modern Living classes, are now home to JW Cooks, a seed-to-table after-school program our nonprofit created for middle schoolers four years ago and, in a long-time goal realized, will be added to the school day as a class in January 2016!

Thank you, Debbie. We look forward to sharing stories, food, produce and more as your gardens grow at your shiny new store (2720 U.S. Route 1 North). And we look forward to visits from you and your chef, Nirit Yadin! And we look forward to seeing the students maneuvering their stockpots and big saute pans into the new sinks for sudsing – with ease!

Read more about Debbie’s story and Mrs G’s here. And read her blog, where you can find posts on good deals at the store and snippets about her life and thoughts. Here’s a recent favorite on how the new logo (see it on our home page) for the store came into being.