Before a trainee ever runs a kitchen of their own, they learn to feed the people next to them. At the Warrior Lodge, the workforce team spent the day prepping a community meal side by side — knife skills, timing, and cleanup all taught the same way the rest of the program works: hands-on, together, and in service of someone other than themselves.
It's a small shift, station to station, but it's also the whole philosophy of the program in miniature — every skill here is a skill in service of community.