SLV Cooking Matters

SLV Cooking Matters includes cooking activities such as Kids in the Kitchen workshops, Cooking Matters at the Store, and Healthy Snacks for Kids. The program also offers opportunities where adults learn to make a healthy meal menu and provides recipe inspiration using local ingredients like Quinoa Muffins, Butternut Squash Curry, and Baked Potato with fun toppings. SLV Cooking Matters shares cooking ideas that are described as simple and delicious on its social media channels.

• Ages: 5–12 years old

San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition leads SLV Cooking Matters, with Max Gibson listed as a contact at [email protected]. The program is part of the San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition, which states a mission of fostering an equitable local food system that restores the health of the people, community, economy, and ecosystem. The organization notes © 2013–2025 San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition. All rights reserved. SLV Cooking Matters is involved in collaborations and partnerships that include Farm-To-School & Cooking Matters, a Culinary Arts collaboration with Boys & Girls Clubs (BGC) and Adams State University (ASU), and work with groups such as Nourish Colorado, The Acequia Institute, La Puente, Guidestone CO, SLV Language Justice Cooperative, Adams State University, SOIL Sangre de Cristo, Johns Hopkins Center for Livable Future, Colorado State University Extension, SLV Great Outdoors, Boys & Girls Clubs of the SLV, Mountain Roots Food Project, SLV Generation Wild, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, Los Promotores del Valle, American Farmland Trust, Share Our Strength, SLV Immigrant Resource Center, Mosca-Hooper Conservation District, and others. Kids in the Kitchen workshops can be arranged, and SLV Cooking Matters also appears at a Cooking Matters outreach table in Center.

Last updated February 25, 2026.