Slow food ideologies are put into practice through experiential learning gardens. As spaces for food education, these venues are instrumental in instituting and developing healthy eating and lifestyle habits for local households and individuals. Across US towns and cities, a multiplicity of factors influence how these ventures eventually operate within local foodscapes. The role of highly motivated individuals and groups prove vital in ensuring learning gardens ' success in meeting their objectives over both the short- and long-term. In this article, we examine the recent experience of Edible Education Experience (EEE), an Orlando-based non-profit variously involved with different educational, religious, and neighborhood communities. Collected datain 2017 and 2018 from EEE's Emeril Lagasse Foundation (ELF) Kitchen House & Culinary Garden contribute to today's critical food studies literature by placing our research findings within ongoing debates about hegemonic neoliberalism and its role amid diminishing slate support. We demonstrate how EEE's development, launch, and continuous fine-tuning of operation reflects both flexibility and adaptability as well as a passion for local food and garden-focused kitchen programming.
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