A simple recipe for a delicious, seasonal treat! This recipe includes a demonstration video by our education director, Maia Bernstein.

This article contains a pop quiz about the ever-fabulous Green Plate Special chickens as well as some nifty information about the different parts of a chicken.

Our garden coordinator, Annie Reading, will walk you through the basics of planting your own potatoes at home! This article also includes photos to visually demonstrate what potato planting looks like.

Please feel free to use our Neighborhood Plant Bingo card as one way to connect with the plants in your area, and share it with your friends/family so they can give it a shot too!

Looking for a safe way to connect with nature, soak up a little sunshine, and be present outdoors? Our education director, Maia Bernstein, has designed and illustrated a sensory walk for you to enjoy this weekend! We also wanted to share a seed scavenger hunt created by Shelburne Farms in their book "Cultivating Joy & Wonder".

“For me, fermentation is a health regimen, a gourmet art, a multicultural adventure, a form of activism, and a spiritual path, all rolled into one.” --Sandor Katz, Wild Fermentation

Straight from Maia's kitchen! This post contains a video in which our education director, Maia Bernstein, shows us a few fermentation projects that she's been working on and explains what makes them bubble. Preserve fruits and veggies in your own home today using the recipes included.

Green Plate Special's Family Bread & Butter Day on March 28th was cancelled to keep flattening that COVID-19 curve, but we still want you to enjoy your own Family Bread & Butter Day at home! This article walks you through a brief history of grains, the different parts of a whole grain, the basic ingredients of bread, the history and science of making butter, and bread and butter recipes that you can enjoy in your own kitchen.

This article contains two of our favorite program recipes that use apples: Kale, Cabbage, and Apple Warm-Slaw and Simple Apple Crisp! If you're enticed by the sound of this, consider buying wholesale apples from Collins Family Orchards in support of their local, family-owned business. It has been deeply impacted by COVID-19 with the closure of the Seattle Farmers Market.

An animated tour of Green Plate Special's kitchen written by a program educator, Emma Sum! "Our beautiful garden is our pride and joy, and anyone can come in and walk around during the week! We enjoy getting to chat with folks around the neighborhood and hope that our garden space can be a safe and welcoming space to all. But as we’ve been staying inside more, I realized... some of our friends don’t get to see where the magic happens: the kitchen!"

"Tinsel, ornaments, lights, candles - things add up. This year there's no way I'm going to buy holiday decorations; I'm going to make them. This is my low budget and eco-friendly option to celebrate this time of year."