2022 Cooking and Clay Camp Recap!

Last week, we welcomed campers to the building for our first two camps of the season; our ever-popular Cooking and Clay Camp & a half-day Wheel Throwing intensive camp. Delicious smells wafted through the building as students cooked a variety of different recipes. In the afternoon both our wheel camp and cooking and clay got messy with mud!

Some recipes the students learned how to make from scratch were enchiladas, vegetable dumplings, pizza, Asian noodles, and chocolate chip cookies. We were also thrilled to see the clay creations from both groups- sets of bowls from our wheel group and a variety of vessels, platters, and even smartphone speaker sculptures from the hand-building group!

This year’s Cooking and Clay camp was particularly special, as our campers went on two field trips around town! In a holistic look at our food system, student started their day on Friday with a field trip to Salvation Farms to learn about gleaning and saving food in the field. They took back gleaned vegetables to River Arts to cook with that day and made vegetable dumplings. In the afternoon students met up with Sarah Lillibridge, the Outreach coordinator for Lamoille County Solid Waste District, to learn about backyard composting of food scraps. The whole camp traveled down the hill to the community gardens to build a backyard compost and make a layered compost using vegetable food scraps from the kitchen that week.