by Eileen | Jul 29, 2015 | Classes, The Farm, Youth
Charlene and Richard began developing Nana Cardoon Urban Farm and Learning Center long before the 3rd grade through high school students that came to visit last month were even born. Yet having the 76 girls from the Chicas Youth Development Program explore, discover,...
by Eileen | Jun 11, 2015 | Artisan Crafts, Classes
Artist and teacher Kiko Denzer shares his thoughts on spoons, and so much more. Everybody eats, everybody uses a spoon. Many people have favorite spoons. What makes one spoon different than the rest? Why does he like this one, and she like that one? In our first...
by Eileen | Jun 11, 2015 | Artisan Crafts, Classes
This spring eleven students enjoyed a day of hands-on learning at Nana Cardoon. Check out their journey from beginning with an applewood log, to ending with their own wooden spoon. With hatchets ready, logs neatly piled, and examples of the spoon in various stages of...
by Eileen | Apr 20, 2015 | Recipes, The Farm
One of the first signs of Spring’s awakening at Nana Cardoon is rhubarb. An herbaceous perennial vegetable native to Siberia it makes its appearance in the early months of the year, typically March. We “force” our rhubarb, that is we place an earthen...
by Eileen | Mar 29, 2015 | Recipes
Greek Phyllo Pie filled with Foraged Greens Maria, highly respected island cook and cooking teacher, Zakynthos, Greece, prepares her Hortopita for the oven in the photo above. Posted by: our friend, Sotiris Kitrilakis, advocate for the best of traditional Greek foods,...
