Project Rooted

Great Article featuring our newest program The Local Lunch Club!

Programs like this don’t work  without community support from people like you! Please consider doing a reoccurring donation to keep this program running!

https://projectrooted.kindful.com/

Dubuque schools, nonprofit partner to bring local lettuce to students' lunch trays When students at Dubuque’s public schools add a salad to their trays in the lunch line, they are taking a leaf out of a local grower’s book.

🌱 It’s that time of year again! We’re getting ready for our April Rooted Box and are in need of bags of dirt. If you’re able to donate a bag (or two!) to help our kiddos get planting, we’d love to hear from you. Send us a message to let us know!

Maple Buttermilk Cornbread Muffins! 🍁✨

This month, we scoured the internet for a healthy cornbread recipe, no added sugar and made with ingredients we could source locally, but didn’t find one we loved. So… we made our own! 😋

Tested today in the kitchen at Steeple, these sweet, tender muffins will be in this month’s Rooted Box - going to schools tomorrow and friday!

Local love: Everything in these muffins, butter, cornmeal, flour, eggs, maple syrup, and buttermilk, was sourced locally (baking powder, baking soda, and salt were the only exceptions). 💛

Whitney's Maple Buttermilk Cornbread Muffins Recipe

Ingredients:
½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 ½ cups cornmeal (medium or fine)
1 ½ cups flour (we used wheat)
3 large eggs, at room temperature
⅔ cup maple syrup(you can use honey too)
1 ½ cups buttermilk, at room temperature
1 ½ tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda

Optional: jam, honey and butter for serving(these will be in the rooted box)

Instructions:
1️⃣ Preheat oven to 375°F. Melt butter in a small saucepan
2️⃣ Mix dry ingredients (cornmeal, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda) in a large bowl.
3️⃣ Whisk eggs and maple syrup in another bowl, then stir in buttermilk.
4️⃣ Pour wet ingredients into dry and stir until just combined.
5️⃣ Stir in melted butter.
6️⃣ Grease or line a 12-cup muffin tin and fill each cup about 2/3 full.
7️⃣ Bake 18–22 minutes until golden brown and a toothpick comes out mostly clean.
8️⃣ Cool 5 minutes, then enjoy!

A little sweetness, a little warmth, and a whole lot of love—straight from local farms to your table. 🌱