Dirt to Dine
Adventure Camp
FOR BUDDING YOUNG CHEFS
AND
FAMILY FARMERS
Dirt-to-Dine is week-long summer camp bridging farming, gardening and cooking experiences in a dynamic, hands-on, youth-driven environment. The camp brings your young epicurean’s enthusiasm for all things cooking back to the source of the ingredient’s: land, soil, seeds, animals, plants and more. Dirt-to-Dine builds on all children’s natural attraction to and enjoyment of farms, farm animals, and nature, as well as their innate curiosity about how things grow and work. Dirt-to-Dine is held at the beautiful historic Connolly Ranch, Napa County’s only family farm dedicated to education.
This camp is for ages 5 (kindergarten ready) to 11, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. It is structured in two parts: In the mornings campers learn the sources of the healthy food we eat. In the afternoons they learn how to cook with these ingredients. Each of the five days will explore a different aspect of foods we eat (the farming, animal care, gardening or foraging), and will culminate in cooking with those foods. The camp is structured in the following five sections:
• Day 1: Dairy. Animal care, milking a goat, making and cooking with butter, cream, fresh ricotta cheese
• Day 2: Fruit, Seeds, Nuts & Honey. Bee observation, foraging & picking wild berries, cooking with fruit, nuts and honey
• Day 3: Chickens, Eggs & Broth. Chicken diet & care, harvesting fresh eggs, making & cooking with broth, eggs, & chicken - all from a whole chicken
• Day 4: Harvesting Summer Vegetables. Garden chores, composting, harvesting & cooking with tomatoes, squash, basil, beans
• Day 5: Grains, Flour & Adobe Oven Pizzas. Thrushing, grinding corn, oven-roasting ingredients for pizza, making dough, pesto, tomato sauce & creating pizzas with oven-roasted toppings.
• Celebration feast on Day 5, with parents invited to observe.
This camp is a collaboration between Connolly Ranch and Chef Michael Chiarello & Bottega Restaurant.
The cost is $425 per child, per week (there are discounts for siblings and multiple weeks). Camps run Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Click here (PDF) for the bios of the "Dirt to Dine" team.
For a sign-up form click here (PDF). If you have any questions please call Michael at 707-224-1894. Send your completed registration form along with full payment to Connolly Ranch, 3141 Browns Valley Road, Napa, CA 94558. Payment can be made by check or credit card.
Please note that because of high demand for both Life on the Farm and Dirt to Dine camps, preference will be given to "Friends of Connolly Ranch."
To become a "Friend of Connolly Ranch," download the sign-up form by clicking here (PDF). If you are not a "Friend of Connolly Ranch," and you send in a completed sign-up form after April 30, 2010, you will be put on the waiting list until all "Friends" are enrolled first.
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