Something must be in the food. Campus Kitchens are continually uploading hilarious, creative, student-produced videos to YouTube and other channels, giving us all a glimpse inside the amazing work they do daily at their respective Campus Kitchens. We’ve seen some truly outstanding feats of cinema. Among them: the Campus Kitchen at Johns Hopkins University’s old [...]
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Campus Kitchens give Meals, Programs an Earth Day Twist
Posted in April 9th, 2010
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 [...]
Planting a Future: the Campus Kitchen at Gonzaga University
Posted in March 31st, 2010
Since the Campus Kitchen at Gonzaga University’s greenhouse/community garden grand opening last week, the seeds are already up and about to shed their shells. Something else is budding too: a relationship between the local Garry Middle School gardening club and Gonzaga University students. “It’s multilayered with them [the middle school students],” says Emily Paulson, coordinator [...]
Spring Brings Green to Campus Kitchens
Posted in March 16th, 2010
Campus Kitchens Celebrate a “Green” Spring with Newman Own Grant, Community Greenhouse and 50,000 Meals Washington, D.C. – This spring is particularly green for The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) across the country with March bringing new funding, inaugural greenhouse crops and milestone events such as 50,000 meals served. In 25 cities, CKP partners with high [...]
Campus Kitchen Colleges make President’s Service Honor Roll
Posted in March 3rd, 2010
Over half of schools that partner with The Campus Kitchens Project – to bring student-led hunger relief to their adopted communities – received the distinction of the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, released at the end of February. Of CKP’s 26 partner campuses, 15 made a higher education community service distinction as [...]
Fools Gold? Nope, that’s Compost: Natural Recycling at your Campus Kitchen
Posted in February 19th, 2010
As the snow melts away and our snow boots finally start to dry, it’s safe to say that gardening season is almost upon us. This will be an exciting time for many Campus Kitchens who already have or are starting campus/community gardens. Come Spring, the Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University will be using their [...]
Easy Pumpkin Cookie Recipe for Holiday Meals
Posted in December 9th, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
As much as we all like eating a slice of a custardy, smooth pumpkin pie, practicality of transport poses a problem. That’s where pumpkin cookies come in. This Turkeypalooza, a few campus kitchens took cues from each other and swapped baking sheets for pie tins. The result: easy to make, bake, and take pumpkin cookies [...]
‘New Millennium’ Kick-off
Posted in October 26th, 2009
by Joelle Johnson in
10.26.09: CKP’s ‘new millennium’ kicked-off this past weekend at the annual Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. There were over 60 attendees representing 17 different Campus Kitchens. The weekend began with the preperation and delivery of the millionth meal served since CKP’s inception 8 years ago. This was a major milestone for the organization and it went [...]
The quest for the right container
Posted in April 30th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Last week, my email inbox welcomed a perfect example of what a national network of Campus Kitchens is all about. It started with Christine Nemetz, the coordinator at the Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College and a question we’ve been talking about on this here blog: how do we make our Campus Kitchens more sustainable? Specifically, Christine was talking containers: [...]
Guest Blog: Story of a garden
Posted in April 29th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Emily Paulson, the indefatigable Campus Kitchen Coordinator at Gonzaga University, tells us the story of her garden, which is also a story about her grandmother, her daughter, and what success means. This year my daughter and I decided to plant a garden in our yard. Actually I decided to plant a garden, but I knew she would get into [...]