Gates Gables Kitchen is the hub of our cooking and baking program. We want kids to learn the joy and satisfaction that comes from making good food---food made even more enjoyable by sharing the results with the whole extended Ranch family. Campers learn firsthand that nothing tastes better then a dish made from ingredients they helped pick, gather, grow, milk, or collect themselves.Gates Gables Kitchen is equipped with two stoves, a convection oven, commercial mixer, and all the supplies to make great snacks and desserts for the whole camp to enjoy. Campers and counselors make jams, jellies, cookies, goat cheese, and ice cream from food grown right here on the Ranch. When cherries, plums, blackberries, or apples begin to ripen campers can pick the fruit and bake them into pies to be shared with everyone
Once a week, campers help the Gates Gables cook bake enough fresh bread for everyone in Camp. The kitchen is also available for Platforms to reserve so they can make a pizza for dinner, or ice cream with just-picked blackberries for Platform Night.