{"id":8356,"date":"2021-10-11T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T20:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=8356"},"modified":"2021-10-11T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T22:32:42","slug":"outstanding-in-a-field-literally-and-for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/outstanding-in-a-field-literally-and-for-a-good-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding In a Field. Literally. And For a Good Cause."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the way-cool opportunity to play for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenkitchenproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teen Kitchen Project&#8217;s<\/a> annual fundraising dinner yesterday. A great event for a great cause. Funny that my wife and I have only known about this organization for a couple of years, but as my pal Ron Sandige says, &#8220;Everything B.C. (Before Covid) is a little hazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTeenKitchenProject%2Fvideos%2F1461918580849983%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Back in 2019 (er&#8230;I think) we were invited to their annual dinner, held on a small farm in Soquel. Besides being surrounded by greet peeps and amazing food and drink, we quickly learned how this organization serves TWO communities: Teens learn about healthy food and gain cooking skills, and gourmet meals are then packaged and delivered to homebound families. (Basically, you sorta double your dollars for anything you donate&#8230;hint.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/volunteers2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/volunteers2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Needless to say, The Teen Kitchen Project was VERY busy last year in the era of shelter-in-place, which kept more people at home, especially those who were more at risk during the early phase of COVID. Over at KPIG, I interviewed Angela Farley, their Executive Director, for KPIG Radio&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kpig-official\/for-soundcloud-angela-farley-exec-director-teen-kitchen-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Central Coast Update&#8221;<\/a>. Some of the teens and chiefs even made a cameo appearance in KPIG Radio&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/N-bCftZG0NI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Ripple&#8221; video project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/847448761&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"KPIG Official\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kpig-official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPIG Official<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Angela Farley - Exec Director Teen Kitchen Project\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kpig-official\/for-soundcloud-angela-farley-exec-director-teen-kitchen-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angela Farley &#8211; Exec Director Teen Kitchen Project<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/salads.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/salads-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Fast forward to 2021 and this year&#8217;s annual dinner. We all gathered in person this year &#8211; like in the B.C times &#8211; above Davenport. Produce from <a href=\"https:\/\/seatoskyfarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sea to Sky Farms<\/a> was cooked by teens and volunteers to produce a gorgeous dinner held literally in the middle of the field at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rancho del Oso Nature Center<\/a>. We ate. We laughed. We all helped out a pretty special organization. And I got to play for the evening with a pretty drop-dead amazing backdrop behind me. You can learn more &#8211; or make a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenkitchenproject.org\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contribution<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenkitchenproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teenkitchenproject.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Foutstanding-in-a-field-literally-and-for-a-good-cause%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the way-cool opportunity to play for the Teen Kitchen Project&#8217;s annual fundraising dinner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8356"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8366,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions\/8366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}