Over one hundred Lee University students spread out across Bradley County Thursday armed with supplies to anchor the county-wide relief effort for the powerful storms that ripped through Tennessee Wednesday. The storms left 9 dead and about 10,000 without power in Bradley County. Leaders and volunteers from the Campus Kitchen at Lee University, among [...]
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Archive for April, 2011
Fridays in the Garden: Preparing for Summer!
Posted in April 29th, 2011
Here in the Mid-Atlantic, we are just about two weeks out from the “last frost” date, which means that it is time to seriously think about planting summer crops. These are the crops that love the heat and sun and produce the fruits that make this time of year so special and memorable. Some of [...]
Healthy Meal Planning for Campus Kitchens
Posted in April 28th, 2011
by Jasmine Touton in Kitchen Advice
While most student brain-power is geared toward planning for finals at this time of year, a group of Campus Kitchen leaders recently joined three DC Central Kitchen experts to discuss healthy meal planning for Campus Kitchen operations. Joelle Johnson, Local Food Procurement Coordinator, discussed her success with buying local and in bulk to make meals [...]
Politics on Film Announces 2011 Community Partner: The Campus Kitchens Project
Posted in April 27th, 2011
Student-run hunger relief program recycles food to feed families The 3rd annual Politics on Film Festival announced today its 2011 community partner, The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP). Founded in 2001, CKP recycles roughly 18 tons of food every month and provides more than 37,000 free meals to local organizations like Head Start, Salvation Army and [...]
Grow For America, or Become a Real Food Fellow
Posted in April 26th, 2011
As seedlings sprout from the earth, new organizations are hatching work experience opportunities this spring, built for the farmer/foodie in you. Grow for America, which looks to advance the organic growing movement by connecting and educating the college generation through direct experience, is cultivating its first “growing class” for summer 2011. The organization’s internships run [...]
Campus Kitchen serves up City-based Hunger Banquet
Posted in April 25th, 2011
As Campus Kitchen students prepare to visit St. Louis in October for a conference held at CKP’s flagship kitchen, Saint Louis University, a much younger Campus Kitchen at Washington University in St. Louis is spurring new awareness of the hunger problems in the metropolitan region with an original take on the hunger banquet. Campus Kitchens [...]
Fridays in the Garden: Welcome in the Flower
Posted in April 22nd, 2011
In addition to their beauty and fragrance, flowers can do a lot for the health of your garden. Many are known to attract beneficial insects and pollinators. Other flowers can repel harmful insects, making them allies to vegetable gardens. Beneficial insects will feed on the flower nectar before moving into the vegetable garden to hunt [...]
Campus Kitchen Opportunity: Hunger Free Communities Fellow
Posted in April 21st, 2011
As college students everywhere prepare to throw their hats in the air and lock their dorm rooms one final time, Campus Kitchen Seniors are thinking about what’s next. The Alliance to End Hunger, a friend of The Campus Kitchen’s Project, recently shared a 10-week fellowship opportunity that could provide a Campus Kitchen volunteer with an [...]
Announcing Two Campus Kitchen Events
Posted in April 20th, 2011
The academic year is almost over, which means it’s time again to plan for two annual gatherings of The Campus Kitchens Project: In August, new leaders and freshly minted Campus Kitchen organizers will join the CKP national office team in Washington, D.C. for an interactive, three-day Boot Camp event. Then, in October, every Campus Kitchen [...]
Campus Kitchen Brings Hunger Banquet to Atlantic City
Posted in April 19th, 2011
*By Program Manager Chris Reams “I am hungry and want to be an American so I can eat dinner!” exclaimed a 7-year-old boy (and U.S. citizen) at the Campus Kitchen at Atlantic City’s (CKATLC) first-ever Hunger Banquet last week. The Campus Kitchen held the event, which coincided with the national March Matchness online giving competition, [...]
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Blogroll
- Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College - This is your source for all things CKGC.
- Campus Kitchen at the College of William and Mary
- Campus Kitchen at University of Florida
- Civil Eats - Supporting development and dialog among local and national leaders about the American food system, and its effects abroad.
- CKP’s Flickr page - Photos from the hallowed halls of CKP
- Farm to Table: the Emerging American Model - A collaborative journalistic forum aimed at strengthening the sustainable and local foods community
- First Helping - The Outreach Program of DCCK, their stories and insights into the streets of DC
- Good Food Jobs - A gastro-job search tool, designed to link people looking for meaningful food work with the businesses that need their energy, enthusiasm and intellect.
- Growing Power - Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all
- Robert Egger’s Piece of Mind - DC Central Kitchen founder and CEO, and author of Begging For Change, winner of the 2004-2005 Terry McAdam Book Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Nonprofit Management, blogs about the Kitchen, CKP, and the changing nonprofit sector.
- Slow Food on Campus - Our friends at Slow Food on Campus promote food that’s good, clean, and fair
- Sodexo USA - Our partners at Sodexo USA have entered the blogosphere!
- Stocks, Sauces, and Soul - This blog documents the class experiences of the Culinary Job Training Students at the DC Central Kitchen.
- The Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University - The web version of Wake Forest University’s Campus Kitchen
- V3 Campaign - Join the movement to strengthen the nonprofit sector led by Robert Egger, founder and president of DC Central Kitchen.
- W&L Campus Kitchens Project - Find out the latest about the Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee University.
- Wasted Food - Inspired by a volunteer shift at the DC Central Kitchen, Jonathan Bloom started researching and writing about wasted food in America. His blog is chock-full of information and inspiration for those of us who recycle food.