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There’s a whole world hiding inside the foods we already love.
What if a marshmallow could teach your child about a plant people once turned to for wellness? What if chocolate began with a fruit, vanilla from an orchid, or how brightest colors in your kitchen can come from something grown in nature?
Beam Edible Discovery Workshops are immersive, hands-on food experiences designed to help kids see what they eat a little differently.
Each workshop begins with something familiar and delicious, then pulls back the curtain. We explore where its ingredients come from, how people have cooked with and relied on them for generations, the traditions and wellness practices surrounding them, and what we understand about them today.
Kids touch, smell, taste, measure, mix and make. They discover what ingredients do, why they’re there and how they transform when we cook with them.
And then we make something really, really delicious.
Part food history. Part wellness. Part cooking. Entirely hands-on.
Every Edible Discovery Workshop ends around the table, tasting what we’ve made together, before each child takes home something delicious they created themselves.
Because the goal isn't to teach kids that some foods are “good” and others are “bad.” It’s to show them that food has a story. Ingredients have a purpose. And knowing what’s inside the things we love can make eating them even more magical.
Host an Edible Discovery at Home
Beam Edible Discovery Workshops are private, interactive, in-home experiences designed for groups of kids to learn, make and taste together.
Gather your group and host at your home. Beam will bring the ingredients, materials, hands-on instruction and everything needed for the experience.
Private Workshop Minimum: $600 for up to 10 children
Additional children: $60 each
Length: 75–90 minutes
Ages: 5–12 for Edible Discovery workshops
For our littles, check out Mini Edible Discoverers that are safer for their developmental stages.
Location: Hosted in your home or private space
Each child participates in the full workshop and leaves with something they made.
Are you ready to travel through time to uncover some of nature’s most fascinating ingredients and return with something delicious you made yourself?
Check out our first series below!
To host your own Edible Discovery contact Jade at HelloBeamBento@gmail.com.
Edible Discovery | Session 1
Marshmallow!
Before there was a marshmallow, there was marsh mallow.
In our first Edible Discovery Workshop series, kids uncover the surprising history behind one of their favorite treats, beginning with the marsh mallow plant itself and the ways its root was traditionally used centuries before the modern marshmallow existed.
We’ll explore the ingredients that transformed it into the treat we know today: what gelatin is and why it creates that incredible fluffy texture, the long history of honey as both food and traditional wellness ingredient, what makes Manuka honey unique, and how something from nature can turn our marshmallows an almost unbelievable shade of blue.
Together, we bloom, measure, mix, whip and transform our ingredients into a batch of homemade marshmallows from scratch.
Kids taste, create and leave with their own wrapped marshmallows, plus a few surprising discoveries about what’s inside them they’ll probably want to tell you about on the way home.
To host your own Edible Discovery contact Jade at HelloBeamBento@gmail.com.
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