Cookin’ up at Rainier Beach High School
By Leika Suzumura When the room was empty at 2:40pm, I was already coming up with a revised recruitment plan, but sure enough……they started to trickle in with hunger in their eyes! […]
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School Children Visit the Farm!
The RaVE team and adult volunteers demonstrated farming to many groups of school children who visited the farm on field trips in May and June. The overwhelming reaction from the […]
RaVE Increases Access to Healthy Foods
In addition to the traditional means of increasing local residents’ access to food that includes the Rainier Valley Food Bank, RaVE has continued to pack and distribute Good Food Bags […]
Campus Dine and Tote
By Rebecca Pearson Here’s an update on Central Washington University’s community kitchen program! Student health assessment data in Spring 2011 showed that CWU students would like to cook and eat healthy […]
The Danny Woo Garden
The Danny Woo International District Community Garden is a lovely urban park in the heart of downtown Seattle. The 1.5-acre garden, managed by Interim CDA, provides community gardening space, picnic benches, […]
RaVE Strengthens Community Capacity
RaVE’s efforts are increasing local community coalitions and strengthening community capacity in the Rainier Valley RaVE’s combined efforts have involved more than 700 individuals from southeast Seattle in a total […]
RaVE After-School Cooking Programs Boost Produce Consumption
We all know that eating more fruits and veggies is good for us and RaVE after-school programs are working to make this happen. In this last quarter 77 students at five schools participated […]
Residents Step Up to Take On RCC Community Dinner
“These dinners are a great place to learn and share” said a recent participant at a RaVE community feast. These monthly events at the Rainier Community Center are a wonderful mix of neighbors, community based organizations […]
Cleveland High School STEM Food Justice Boot Camp
Last year Cleveland had a great after-school cooking program. This summer they are doing a food justice boot camp. Go Cleveland! This two-week program explores the local and industrial food […]
Cleveland Cooks!
“Wow, this tastes good, I didn’t know healthy food tasted so good!” was one student’s realization after eating the vegetable enchiladas made in the after-school cooking program in Ms. Kravitz’ home and […]
