SLV Cooking Matters

SLV Cooking Matters offers hands-on cooking activities that include Kids in the Kitchen workshops, Cooking Matters at the Store, and Healthy Snacks for Kids. The program also includes sessions where adults learn to make a healthy meal menu and provides recipe inspiration using local ingredients such as quinoa muffins, butternut squash curry, and baked potatoes with various toppings. SLV Cooking Matters shares cooking ideas on social media that are described as simple and delicious, and it gets kids involved in the kitchen.

• Ages: 4–12 years old

SLV Cooking Matters is part of the San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition, which states its mission as “Fostering an equitable local food system that restores the health of the people, community, economy and ecosystem.” The program is connected with Farm-To-School & Cooking Matters collaboration and a Culinary Arts collaboration with Boys & Girls Clubs of the SLV and Adams State University. Its partnerships and community connections include organizations such as Johns Hopkins Center for Livable Future, Colorado State University Extension, La Puente, SOIL Sangre de Cristo, American Farmland Trust, SLV Language Justice Cooperative, Rio Grande Watershed Conservation Education Initiative, Guidestone CO, The Acequia Institute, SLV Generation Wild, Adams State University, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, Valley Educational Gardens Initiative, Mosca-Hooper Conservation District, Nourish Colorado, Boys & Girls Clubs of the SLV, Los Promotores del Valle, Share Our Strength, Mountain Roots Food Project, SLV Immigrant Resource Center, and SLV Great Outdoors. Max Gibson is listed as a contact for SLV Cooking Matters, and Flores is identified as the Farm Manager at the Rio Grande Farm Park. The San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition notes the years © 2013–2025 in connection with its work.

Last updated June 4, 2026.