Scrappy Cooking Workshop

Join us on the farm for a deliciously scrappy cooking demo with a local chef and our sustainability-minded partners! 🍅🥕

Together with Zero Waste DC, To Go Green, and Climate Classes DC, we’ll explore how to turn kitchen scraps into creative meals, cut down on waste, and build climate-friendly habits—all in a hands-on, community-driven setting.

Prepare a meal using farm produce in this sustainable cooking workshop led by Chef Bert Brown-Orleans. Participants will have the opportunity to take a tour of Common Good City Farm while also learning from Climate Classes about different ways to reduce the environmental impact involved in food production and consumption. 

Come curious, leave inspired (and well-fed)! 🌱♻️

Chef Bertrand Brown-Orleans is a culinary artist with over two decades of passion and expertise in the hospitality industry, having honed his craft with formal training at the esteemed California Culinary Academy, Le Cordon Bleu. As the heart and soul behind Finger Foods Culinary, he brings his extensive knowledge to life, offering personalized culinary consultation and education that breathes new life into menus, recipes and crafts unforgettable experiences for a diverse and discerning clientele, including cherished institutions like The Dabney, Susan Gage Catering, The National Zoological Park, The Swiss Embassy and The Blair House.

Menu - Stay tuned for the official menu!

COVID-19 Protocol

• Please do not attend the event if you have any symptoms or concerns that you may have been exposed to Covid-19.  If you are concerned please test before attending the event and contact us if a refund is required due to Covid-19 precautions.

• Masks are optional but encouraged.

Severe Weather Plan  

As the farm is an outdoor space, severe weather may impact our ability to host the event. 

Our policy has been to reschedule events when the following weather events are forecast with a high likelihood (If it is a drizzle/ light rain, we generally do not reschedule the event and continue to host the event.) 

Plan for rain/ severe weather date of Thursday, June 27th 6 - 8p

Thursday, May 29th from 5-8pm

• Severe rain and/or high winds that may cause dangerous situations

• Thunderstorm watch or warning

• Tornado watch or warning

• Lighting

• Hail

• Excessive Heat (exceeding 103 degrees F)

If the weather forecast is looking bad, we will be in communication about if we need to reschedule to the back-up date.

Code of Conduct: As a participant of this course you agree to follow the Common Good City Farm participant Code of Conduct.

Climate Classes DC is a growing local community that empowers individuals to address climate change by learning and sharing sustainable life skills together. 

Climate Classes supports the BLM movement and is committed to including, supporting, and uplifting Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color and the LGBTQ+ community.

Zero Waste DC, powered by the DC Department of Public Works, is the District’s one-stop resource on reducing waste, recycling, composting, and special waste handling. The initiative supports the District in meeting its 80% waste diversion goal through the Zero Waste DC Plan.

To Go Green is DC's reusable takeout container service. Customers can order takeout or delivery through our online platform and will receive their meals in reusable containers that they can return from home or in person to one of our restaurant partners. Each use of a To Go Green container avoids the upstream and downstream impacts of a single-use alternative, and our containers are designed to withstand at least 1,000 uses.

EatOrToss is an online resource for curious home cooks who don’t want to waste food, but also don’t want to risk eating something they shouldn’t. The site features hundreds of images of foods that don’t look quite right, alongside quick guidance and longer, science-based explanations of, say, brown lines inside a potato or that pesky black stuff on onions. Since the site’s founding, millions of people around the world have consulted EatOrToss for help taking the “doubt” out of “when in doubt, throw it out.” EatOrToss also features use-it-up recipes as well as articles on related topics. EatOrToss’s founder, Rachael Jackson, is based in D.C.

Note about Sliding Scale Ticket Pricing:

A sliding fee scale is a tool for building economic justice, and it requires your active participation. If a sliding scale is implemented effectively, everyone pays a similar percentage of their income for the same products or services. A wide range of payment options across the scale promotes broader accessibility, while insuring fair compensation to the producer. Paying according to one’s available resources creates a more equitable system for pricing of products and services.

Sliding scales are often based on individual income levels, with people of higher incomes paying more. However, many factors complicate and affect our financial status. Some groups of people have costs that the larger population does not. Others have access to resources that are not always reflected in their lifestyle choices and income levels. Please consider both your class background and earning power when choosing your payment level.

Consider paying less on the scale if you..

• are supporting children or have other dependents

• have significant debt

• have medical expenses not covered by insurance

• are eligible for public assistance

• have immigration-related expenses

• are an elder with limited financial support

• are an unpaid community organizer

• are a returning citizen who has been denied work due to incarceration history

• experience discrimination in hiring or pay level

• are descended from enslaved people or Native American Indians 

Consider paying more on the scale if you:

• own the home you live in

• have investments, retirement accounts, or inherited money

• travel for recreation

• have access to family money and resources in times of need

• work part time or are unemployed by choice, including unemployment due to full-time school in a degree-earning program

• have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education (or gender and racial privilege, class background, etc.) Even if you are not currently exercising your earning power, we ask you to recognize this as a choice. 

Acknowledgement: This language about sliding scale pricing is adapted from Little Red Bird Botanicals: 

http://www.littleredbirdbotanicals.com/consultation-fees/.