A Journey Through Stories and Cuisine
About the Series"Flavors of Frogtown" celebrates the diverse culinary traditions and cultural heritage of our community through a series of monthly gatherings. Each event focuses on a different culinary technique—from roasting to pickling to preserving—and invites participants to share their family recipes and the stories behind them.
Objective: This series aims to do more than just share cooking skills. It's a vibrant forum for weaving together our community's stories, culinary wisdom, and artistic expression. By participating, community members contribute to a living cookbook that captures the essence of Frogtown’s diverse identity.
Goals of the Project:
Foster Community: Strengthen community bonds through shared culinary sessions and storytelling, celebrating our collective heritage.
Showcase Diversity: Highlight the rich cultural diversity of Frogtown, bringing to the forefront the varied culinary traditions that thrive within our neighborhood.
Preserve Heritage: Keep our unique food traditions alive by documenting ancestral techniques and recipes in a community cookbook, ensuring they endure for future generations.
Promote Health: Encourage healthier lifestyles by showcasing how to utilize local, fresh produce in everyday cooking.
How to Participate:
Join us at Frogtown Farm for our enriching monthly gatherings or contribute online by uploading your recipes, photos, and drawings. These sessions and your contributions are designed to bridge community, culture, and cuisine, celebrating our diverse local heritage. Whether in person or online, your participation enriches our collective experience.
What to Bring to In-Person Sessions:
Recipes: Share your cherished family or cultural recipes at our gatherings. Whether they're time-honored traditions or innovative dishes that spotlight local ingredients, your recipes are a vital part of our community tapestry.
Photos and Drawings: Enhance our storytelling sessions by bringing photos or drawings that capture the essence of your culinary heritage or special moments related to your recipes. These visuals help bring stories to life and deepen our communal connections.
Engagement Opportunities:
Storytelling Circles: Share and discover the stories behind the community's diverse recipes in our storytelling circles—a core part of each session.
Hands-on Workshops: Participate in practical workshops, from roasting to canning. These interactive sessions are both educational and enjoyable.
Contribute to the Community Cookbook: Your recipes and stories will contribute to a community cookbook that celebrates Frogtown’s rich culinary tapestry.
Flavors of Frogtown Registration Details
Thursday, July 18 | 6:00 PM- 8:30 PM
Join Wilderness Inquiry, and Executive Director, Chef Lachelle Cunningham, on the Farm for an enlightening evening of foraging and backcountry cooking techniques. This hands-on session offers a unique opportunity to learn how to identify, harvest, and prepare wild edibles right from your local environment. Participants will gain practical skills in foraging and experience the joy of cooking and sharing a meal made from ingredients found on the farm and surrounding natural areas.
What to Bring:
Recipes: Stinging nettle soup, wild garlic pesto, herby or wild salads, condiments, elderflower cordial, berry compote, wild berry jams, herbal teas, or other recipes integrating foraged foods
Photos/Drawings: Pictures showing family or cultural traditions of foraging or using wild foods in meals.
Tools/Items: Tools used in foraging and preparing wild edibles.
Saturday, August 24 | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Explore the art of pickling with Natural Roots Wellness. This session will introduce participants to various methods of pickling vegetables, an excellent way to preserve the harvest while enhancing flavors. Attendees will learn about the benefits of pickled foods and prepare their own jars of pickled vegetables to take home. This hands-on workshop is ideal for discovering the vibrant tastes and health benefits that pickling can offer.
What to Bring:
Recipes: Bring recipes for traditional pickles like dill cucumbers, pickled carrots, Korean kimchi, Mexican escabeche, or Eastern European pickled cabbage.
Photos/Drawings: Visuals of family or cultural events centered around pickling processes.
Tools/Items: Any special tools used in pickling, such as canning jars, tongs, or specific cutting tools for preparing vegetables.
Saturday, Sept 14 | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Celebrate the culmination of our "Flavors of Frogtown" series this season at the Harvest Festival with a canning and preserving workshop. This session will showcase methods to preserve a variety of fruits and vegetables. Participants will engage in making jams, jellies, and pickles, learning about safe canning practices and the satisfaction of creating homemade preserves. This festive day will also feature the unveiling of the artists’ work and community cookbook, filled with recipes and stories collected throughout the series.
What to Bring:
Recipes: Apple butter, mango chutney, tomato salsa, or pickled beets, preserves, relishes, jams, jellies, pickles and canned goods
Photos/Drawings: Visuals of the canning process or family traditions.
Tools/Items: Tools used in canning and preserving.
Get Involved
Collaborate with Us
Interested in partnering with us for a Flavors of Frogtown event? Fill out the form below to express your organization's interest in collaboration and share how you can contribute to our community celebrations of food and culture.
Volunteer with Us
Want to get involved hands-on? Sign up to volunteer with us! Help set up, facilitate, or clean up at our events to make each gathering a success.