This nutritious wraps are packed with crunchy local cabbage, veggies, beans, and cheese. They’re full of fiber, protein, and nutrients. You can add or substitute other fresh veggies you have on hand to customize this burrito for your class.
Cabbage
Meet Your Farmer: Deal Family Farms
Cabbage is the key ingredient in many Southern Appalachian dishes, like coleslaw. In our latest Meet Your Farmer video, see how cabbage is grown at Deal Family Farms, a multi-generational farm located in Franklin, NC. Meet some members of the Deal family, including farmer Joe and his teenage son, Braxton. Find out what vegetables cabbage is related to, learn about photosynthesis, and see the difference between an immature cabbage head and one that’s fully grown and ready to harvest.
Growing Minds Day by Day: Week of October 5
This week’s theme is cabbage. Our “Growing Minds Day by Day” educational resource lists are designed for families and educators to use during the COVID-19 quarantine and beyond.
Apple Quesadillas with Cabbage salad
This lesson plan has step by step instructions for cooking in the classroom and features literature and curriculum connections.
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- Cabbage Quesadilla recipe and lesson plan (quick view as .pdf)
Cooking Cabbage Apple Quesadillas
Kindergarten students from Cullowhee Valley Elementary School cook apple cabbage quesadillas with help from Western Carolina University pre-service teachers and dietitians through ASAP’s Growing Minds Farm to School Cooking Program!
Apple Quesadillas with Cabbage Salad recipe and lesson plan
These quesadillas put a local spin on an old favorite. The associated lesson plan includes cabbage facts and activities.
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- Cabbage Quesadilla recipe and lesson plan (quick view as .pdf)
Cabbage Soup
From The Giant Cabbage – An Alaskan Folktale by Cherie B. Stihler, this soup has enough ingredients that everyone in the classroom can have a job cutting vegetables.
Cabbage Exploration – Preschool
Children gain confidence in trying new foods and become familiar with a new vegetable. Through a hands-on activity, children explore a new vegetable and taste two varieties of cabbage.
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- Cabbage Exploration – Preschool (quick view as .pdf)