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The Extra Ingredient Kitchen Store Coordinated Product Donations from Kitchen Product Manufacturers’ in Europe and Canada To Help Stock the Kitchen of the New Greensboro Edible Schoolyard

8th June, 2010 - Posted by Susan - No Comments

Edible Schoolyard Garden

Greensboro, NC (May 2010) – The Extra Ingredient, a Greensboro, NC kitchen store, coordinated efforts to stock the teaching kitchen of the new Edible Schoolyard that opened at the Greensboro Children’s Museum (GCM) on May 22, 2010.  The Edible Schoolyard at GCM is the first of its kind at a museum in the country and the fourth official affiliate of the program created by Alice Waters and The Chez Panisse Foundation.

Herb Garden

The Greensboro Children’s Museum’s Edible Schoolyard includes a half-acre, four-season, organic garden filled with vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers, a pond, a chicken coup, outdoor classrooms and a teaching kitchen where children and families can create recipes, cook food and share meals and conversation together.  Visitors to the Edible Schoolyard will learn about the relationship among food, nature and life through organic gardening (planting, growing, harvesting), preparing and cooking organic food simply and nutritiously.  The Edible Schoolyard program will become a model for other children’s museums nationwide promoting health and wellness.

Emile Henry, Rosle, Cuisipro, and Arcuisine Elegance Products

The Extra Ingredient, an independently owned and operated kitchen store located at the Friendly Shopping Center in Greensboro, NC, is one of many Greensboro community businesses and organizations that are generously donating supplies and services to the new Edible Schoolyard.  The Extra Ingredient coordinated product donations from kitchen product manufacturers in France, Germany and Canada.  Products included Emile Henry pie dishes, Arcuisine Elegance baking dishes, Cuisipro baking and cooking utensils and Rösle food preparation tools.

Recycling Emile Henry boxes

Art and Martha, owners of the Extra Ingredient, said “We take pride in offering our customers a superior selection of high quality cooking and tabletop items. “We are extremely proud of our knowledgeable staff, many of whom have worked with us for a number of years,” explains Martha, “We love our “localness”, and appreciate our connection with the community of Greensboro and wonderful programs like the Edible Schoolyard.”

For more information about the Extra Ingredient, call 1-800-528-3618 or visit www.extraingredient.com.  For more information on The Greensboro Children’s Museum’s Edible Schoolyard, visit www.gcmuseum.com.