Princeton School Gardens Cooperative - PSGC

03/15/2025

Thanks so much to Lillipies and the bent spoon for the delicious Cherry Pi Ice Cream fundraiser for Pi Day!

03/15/2025

Celebrate Pi Day today with Cherry Pi Ice Cream, a delicious partnership of Lillipies and the bent spoon – while supplies last! Proceeds go to support our food systems literacy projects

03/14/2024

Today is a PERFECT day for a Lillipies a la mode!

03/09/2024

We LOVE our community partners!

03/07/2024

Once again, our AMAZING friends at Lillipies and the bent spoon are hosting a Princeton Pi Day Fundraiser for the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative! Just head to bent spoon or Lillipies this weekend or on PiDay (3-14-24), and order the Princeton School Garden Cooperative Fundraiser pairing. 100% of the money is donated to support our work in bringing food and garden-based education to the Princeton Public Schools, New Jersey!

PiDay Sundaes are back! mascarpone ice cream, brownie LiLLiPiE, sea salt caramel. 100% donated to

12/11/2023

Food Systems Literacy Coordinator Tomia MacQueen collaborates with Monique Graber to scale up Tomia's family collard greens recipe for our December Garden State on Your Plate tastings and to create new ideas for other collard offerings for lunchtime at the Princeton Public Schools,.

12/02/2023

How’s Garden State on Your Plate going, you ask? Here’s a sweet photo of a student at Riverside Elementary coming back up for his 5th serving of winter squash during our latest tasting! 😋 Thank you and partners for having us back in the classrooms. We’re thrilled to bring food literacy programs back into our local schools.

11/21/2023

Yesterday's Garden State on Your Plate tasting at Littlebrook school was a blur with an AMAZING rotating team of parent volunteers plating up and serving 376 samples of spaghetti squash + infused salt + Parmesan vinaigrette. Favorite comment came from a Kindergartner: "I thought it was going to be [makes a thumbs down motion] but with this and this [points to salt and vinaigrette] it was a [makes a thumbs up motion]!"

11/15/2023

November 2023 Garden State on Your Plate #2 is a wrap! We're so happy to be back at Johnson Park School where a hardworking team of parent volunteers plated up spaghetti squash samples, dished out white pepper-infused salt, and ladled tiny cups of vinaigrette. Chef Sandoval explained the tasting exercise to students in Spanish, and dual-language students were encouraged to help translate for their classmates. As chef walked around and talked with the students, he demonstrated how to make "spaghetti" by scraping the roasted squash with a fork. Student reactions ran the gamut from "I don't want to taste it." to "May I have seconds?" The best part was eavesdropping on 5th graders casually comparing their favorite seasoning choices! Princeton Public Schools, New Jersey Jersey Fresh Farm to School

11/14/2023

We're thrilled to share that Garden State on Your Plate has *officially* returned to
Princeton Public Schools, New Jersey. On Monday 11/13, we served samples of winter squash to 750 students!

What was the favorite, you ask? Spaghetti squash seasoned with the fermented white pepper-infused salt was the winner -- hands-down! Email us for more: [email protected]

Pictured are some action shots from our time with students at Princeton Middle School -- including moments with our team of volunteers and PPS support network. Folks pictured include PMS Chef Sandoval, Science Teacher Janet Gaudino, Principal Jason Burr, Assistant Principals Ebony Lattimer and John McCann, Food Systems Literacy Coordinator Tomia MacQueen, and Alka Mattoo, one of our fabulous parent volunteers (holding all of the samples!)

All photos were taken by Jennifer Cohan. Thank you all.

11/11/2023

Next week, Garden State on Your Plate, one of signature education programs, returns to 🥳🍽️👨‍🌾 We are thrilled to help provide your students with more delicious food literacy education experiences! Up first is a winter squash tasting - prepared with fermented white pepper. Special thanks to for your support and donations for these tastings, as well. And to our co-founder Fran McManus for her work building and maintaining this program. Stay tuned for more info when we launch on Monday 11/13. 📚

06/13/2023

This week in food, we're reading about how Tamar Adler is helping home cooks (us!) turn food waste into dinner. Dive in, in Civil Eats:

The author of the beloved book “An Everlasting Meal” talks about her new companion cookbook geared toward making biscuits with sour milk and other tips for treating leftover food with the respect it deserves.