For my third service learning experience, my fellow students and I pickled peppers. We first had to cut up peppers harvested from the roots garden. Then we put the peppers in jars and filled the jars with apple cider vinegar. With the jars filled, we put the jars in boiling water so they could become pickled.
This service-learning experience helped me learn about how pickled peppers are made. I feel like the experience taught me a valuable cooking skill along with a way to provide food for myself. I found the whole experience to be quite interesting. I am now more interested in cooking and creating new ways to harvest and use vegetables that are harvested from gardens. I also learned that the community can provide some tasty vegetables. Asheville is a great place to grow food and it can definitely become a sustainable environment. In the future I hope to accomplish more service learning such as harvesting vegetables or just helping around. I am really looking forward to the crop mob coming up.
I find it rewarding, even empowering, to make my own food, too :) I'll be interested to hear about the crop mob!
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