Explore the June 2025 Series
Week 1 | June 5, 2025
Breakfast for Dinner with Chassitti Clark
Shake It Till You Make It
Southern Roots in Every Bite
Week 3 | June 12, 2025
Doenjang Jjigae with Maneisha Lewis
Maceration: Salt vs Sugar
Starting Fresh on the Land
Week 2 | June 12, 2025
Summer Galette & Citrus Salad with Charisse Johnson
Salt Curing with Greens
Growing in the City
Meet Your Instructors
In the Field
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Growing in the City
Join Alex on a visit to Weber’s Greenhouse in Milwaukee.
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Southern Roots in Every Bite
This week, Alex heads to The HUB in downtown Madison to visit House of Flavas.
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Starting Fresh on the Land
Alex travels to Loading Land & Livestock in Barneveld, WI, to meet Gabriel.
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Feeding Generations
At the South Madison Farmers’ Market, we meet Robert Pierce.
Kitchen Science
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Shake It Till You Make It
This week we’re diving into the science of emulsions and physical change. We’ll make homemade butter using only cream and shaking.
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Preservation with Salt
This week we explore how salt was used to preserve food long before refrigeration. We’ll observe osmosis in action as water is drawn from collard greens
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Maceration: Salt & Sugar
This week we look at how sugar and salt change the texture and taste of fruits and vegetables.
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Sweet Tea Science
This week, we experiment with one of the South’s most iconic drinks—sweet tea! Explore how temperature affects the rate at which sugar dissolves in liquid.