Students in our 13-week horticultural/entrepreneurial training complete a garden design to present to a neighbor who will host a residential garden.
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It’ll be a celebration of summertime with one ton of S Q U A S H. 
Get your tickets on Event Brite There will be a few words from our Exec Direct Megan Hanson.
You gotta come to this.
“Sociable Supper”
Farm-to-Table Dinner
Saturday, July 19, 2014 5-8pm
Come eat a locally grown and harvested, sustainable, plant-based supper, while supporting
Muir Ranch’s summer internships!
Enjoy Plant-Based Cuisine by: Jennie Cook – Jennie Cooks Catering
Featuring recipes from Jennie’s Cookbook “Who Wants Seconds?“
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Aperitifs (A choice of 3)
Citrus Elixir with Camille’s Elderflower Potion
Iced Minted Elixir
Strawberry Lemonade
1st
catalan gazpacho shooters and chubby croutons
potato tacos with muir ranch chard curtido and cilantro crema
2nd
sliced tutti frutti tomatoes with muir ranch basil and onions
green salad with grilled summer fruits
quick pickle cucumbers
baguettes and chèvre with fennel flowers and cilantro blossoms
3rd
summer slaw with muir ranch chard and…
ratatouille with Mud’s favorite white squash and ranch leeks
delicious bread and zucchini marmalade and roasted elephant squash
stuffed delicata squash with a classic cornbread stuffing
4th
stone fruit crunch and cream
Other details...
PARKING: Behind John Muir High School at 1905 N Lincoln. Park in rear Student Lot, enter at Canada Ave.
HEELS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR MULCH PATHWAYS
Your tax deductible dinner ticket purchase helps to support our summer internship program at Muir Ranch.
Our goal is to offer fully paid internships to 30 students this Summer.
Each student will earn $600 for 8 weeks of work.
We hope to raise $18,000 to cover the cost of these internships.
Get your tickets now, you don’t want to miss it!
It’s a beautiful day when I wake up to an e-mail from the amazing board member, Corinna Gebert, who’s also running The Urban Food and Farming Training with Karen Ramirez - Sundays at our community partners, WeCan. South LA students and our staff spend four hours of their weekend cultivating skills and friendships that will last a lifetime. 
Of course good food was involved! Here’s a quote from the e-mail –
“Yesterdays garden day with the volunteers was a success, we made some great progress in Bridgette’s garden, made signs and markers for our residential food garden Program, transplanted plugs and six-packs in the WECAN nursery, showed the visitors from Sonoma State all that RootDownLA is up to, had a fantastic lunch cooked by Andres and Kadeyjah and a great time overall!”
A little earlier in the week, Andres Chopin planned and executed a BRILLIANT meal for the CD 9 Coalition meeting at Nuevo South tonight. 25 Non-profit Executive Directors were completely impressed with the chicken, meatballs, veggie platter, fruit, cucumbers, hummus and guacamole.
The feast had no end.
THANK YOU! Andres and Johnny, for pulling this off!
Our kids are making us so very proud!
Posted by Mrs. Cook
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