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Food for Thought (FFT)
(Green Internships, click here)
(see BELOW FOR links to OUR blogs, cookbook and SOME RECIPES!)

All of us eat, but few eat well. Understanding, appreciating, and knowing how to choose and prepare food which is delicious and healthy are skills learned through experience. Food for Thought can be that experience.

Triskeles’ Food for Thought Program actively engages youth, ages 13-17, in outdoor, hands-on experiences involving organic agriculture and nutritional activities to learn how to make healthy food choices for living healthier lives! Our main constituency is a diverse group of hard-working young teens who are interested in the world. Food for Thought reaches these young people just as they are starting to make their own food choices and are heavily targeted by the fast food/junk food industries – a significant factor in why the adolescent obesity statistics, along with their associated diseases, are so alarmingly high.

We have seen that when youth get fully involved with their hands and hearts, lessons learned really stick and have a lasting impact far beyond what can be taught in a classroom alone. Youth are learning skills and making connections which they’ll use all their lives, making an impact in the rapidly-growing local organic food movement, having fun, and earning stipends for their work. Food for Thought is primarily a summer program in the greater Phoenixville, PA area. If you would like to learn more about this year's program or you would like to get involved, click here.

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check out our BLOGS!

Triskeles' FFT 2009: Daily Blog

Triskeles' FFT

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Link to Shari Demaris' new cookbook,
Macro Magic for Kids

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Try some of our 2009 recipes

by clicking on the recipes below!

thank you to our partners,
cooking for real

Click here to get all the recipes listed below as one file

Baked Kale Chips

Berry Cornmeal Cake

Buttermilk Cornbread

Corn-Cheese Pancakes

Crock Pot Beef Chili

Easy Pizza Dough

Farm Fresh Pesto

Fresh Corn Cornbread

Fresh Market Salsa

Market Fresh Zucchini Pancakes

Oven-Baked Potato Fries

Pancakes in a Jar

Quick, Fresh Pizza Sauce

Seasonsal Crustless Quiche

Stacked Vegetable Quesadillas

Sweet Potato and Black Bean Hash

Sweet Potato Cornbread

Warm Lemon-Basic Potato Salad

Zucchini Brownies

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FFT Agreement: WORD PDF

KWS Practicum Agreement: WORD PDF

Other required forms are accessible by clicking HERE: YOUTH FORMS