Cooking Classes

The Rich and Elizabeth Macher Teaching Kitchen at the YMCA Express at Gainsboro provides fun, hands-on cooking classes for children and adults. Using fresh produce from the Gainsboro Garden, participants learn how to prepare healthy meals while discovering where their food comes from. This unique community space inspires lifelong healthy habits, nutrition education, and a deeper connection to wellness.

Creative Cooking at the Salem Family YMCA: Add 2 cups fun with 1 cup of laughter. Mix in a handful of friends and you get a 4 week cooking class that explores essential cooking skills, healthy choices and inspires creativity and collaboration through mouth watering masterpieces.