Food skills is defined as the knowledge and confidence for one to plan, select, prepare, store, and consume nutritious and safe foods, meals, and snacks, including understanding food labels, budgeting, and food safety. Pueblo Food Project’s Food Skills Education Program offers interactive educational opportunities in cooking, gardening, nutrition and food preservation. Classes are designed to foster community while teaching practical skills in the kitchen and garden. We love to celebrate, grow and prepare foods that are important to Pueblo’s culture.
Pueblo Food Project has been a lead provider of accessible food skills education in Pueblo since 2021. This program was supported by the Colorado Attorney General's Office through 2024, and is now supported by the Denver Foundation through the Belonging Colorado initiative. Nourishing Connections, our food skills education series through Belonging Colorado, brings in a focus of community connection and bridging across lines of difference. In Nourishing Connections, participants work together to cook and garden, and in the process they learn more about one another, share their knowledge and stories, and form meaningful connections across lines of difference.
Outcomes from Nourishing Connections include:
- An increase in participants cooking meals at home and citing new skills learned.
- An increase in youth participants contributing towards household cooking.
- An increase in nutrition education/knowledge among participants
- Participants have a deeper understanding and connection to Pueblo’s local food culture and history.
- Participants feel a sense of culture and connection around food in their own family and community.
- Participants learn something new about other cultures and/or identities that they previously didn’t know.
Interested to learn more or get involved? Reach out to Lindy (lindy@pueblofoodproject.org) to get on a class waitlist, sign up to volunteer, or be the first to hear about our food skills education offerings in the future!
