What is the food like at Appel Farm?
A goal of our program at Appel Farm is to make campers and staff more aware of the food we eat, the value of nutrition, and of larger concerns for the environment. Each session, the garden is full of discovery, as campers learn about nature and organic gardening, growing seasons, and all kinds of familiar and unfamiliar fruits and vegetables. With each changing daily harvest, our chef incorporates fresh corn, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, green beans, snap peas, cucumbers, melons, and herbs into meals and salad bar offerings. Meals are a wonderful time where campers and staff enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as afternoon and evening snacks as a community. Meals are served buffet-style, and campers sit with their friends. The always-nutritious menu offers balance and variety that includes vegetarian options at each meal. Campers start the day with a meal that could include pancakes or breakfast sandwiches, oatmeal, fruit and granola, cold cereal or yogurt. At lunch and
