Children’s Food Festival
Learn how food gets to your dinner table with Brooklyn Supported Agriculture!
Get to know the ingredients of your favorite meals, grow your own food and learn to compost with local farmers, and try different food-inspired art-making activities at this celebration of global culinary traditions.
SCHEDULE
Basil Planting with Koron Smiley of Red Hook Farms
🕒 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Learn about the health benefits of basil and plant some to take home.
Cavatelli Shaping with Pastable
🕒 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Hands-on workshop and tasting with elements of growing food, food science, nutrition education and cultural food experience.
The Children’s Tea Lab with Kamino del Sol
🕒 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Step into a world of sensory discovery where our young herbalists take the lead! In this peer-led workshop, our older students serve as “Lead Alchemists,” guiding their younger peers through the art of custom tea blending.
Composting with BK ROT
🕒 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Learn what happens to food scraps after you’re done eating.
Food Photography with Tabea Photography
🕒 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join the Veggie Society – create your own veggie character and bring it to life, exploring how creativity can be a tool to experience healthy food in a joyful way.
Food Science with Black Girls Environmental
🕒 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Explore food science by creating batteries with fruits and vegetables.
From Root to Fruit: A Sensory Plant Adventure with Oko Farms
🕒 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This child-friendly workshop invites participants to explore the different parts of a plant through hands-on sensory activities with familiar vegetables, herbs, and fruits.
Holistic Wellness with Our Family Tree Wellness Co-op
🕒 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join a youth meditation session that centers food, self-care, and wellness.
Kid Flicks: A Food and Film Celebration
🕒 11:30 am – 12:10 pm, 1:30 pm – 2:10 pm, 3:30 pm – 4:10 pm
Cool off in our auditorium with a deliciously inspired program of animated and documentary short films that celebrate food, family and global culture, curated and presented by NYICFF (New York International Children’s Film Festival) for audiences of all ages. 39 min total run time.
Natural Dye Cake Decorating with Faith Brown
🕒 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Use natural dyes to make your desert dreams come true.
Painting with Fruits with Brooklyn Botanic Garden
🕒 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Beet roots, turmeric stems and marigold petals have been used for thousands of years to create dye for clothing, paint, ink and more. Join our friends at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to design your own one-of-a-kind fan with beet, turmeric, and matcha ‘paint’, then pot up your very own lavender flower to take home and care for!