Washington, D.C. – Campus Kitchens across the country are eco-focused and eco-friendly, recovering unused food from school cafeterias and restaurants while providing nutritious meals to their communities.

With April events nation-wide, below are Earth Day examples from three cities:

Pennsylvania: Celebrating nutritious recovery of 10 tons of food and serving its 10,000th meal, the Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College will host a 10 Ton event on Earth Day, April 22.  Highlighting the Kitchen’s community collaboration, 20 different relay teams will compete in a Campus Kitchen-themed relay course involving hairnets, gloves, canned foods and thermometers.  Featuring community partnerships, the event will include farmers, chefs and others discussing how they make healthy food accessible while fighting hunger, poverty and promoting the local economy.

Texas:  Students and faculty at Baylor University are teaming up to bring a sustainable garden to campus.  The Campus Kitchen at Baylor University currently tends a garden off-campus, where they are learning the skills necessary to plan, plant and maintain a vegetable garden.  Faculty partners with the Kitchen, helping to work in the garden and also conducting a Spring fundraising drive to bring the garden on-campus.

Massachusetts: On April 26th, Boston will dedicate its first Campus Kitchen at UMass Boston.  The Kitchen, operational since February, provides almost 100 meals a week to children and their families at The Early Learning Center East.  All meals are created with unused, recycled food from dining halls, community gardens, area restaurants and community donation.

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