At the Phoenix Garden, a bike ride from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire (UWEC), volunteers from the Campus Kitchen at UWEC finally reaped the benefits of months of planning and hard work. This Saturday, June 26, CKUWEC volunteers worked alongside members of The Community Table, and other gardeners, to harvest summer crisp lettuce – [...]
CKP National Blog
Resources and Updates on Our National Initiatives
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 [...]
MLK Day 2010: Looking Back on Last Year’s Service
Posted in January 6th, 2010
As the 18 organizations participating in The Campus Kitchens Project’s MLK Day/Semester of Service finalize plans and fire up their ovens, hundreds of volunteers are readying to grab a fork and pitch in, holding inaugural meal services, jump-starting culinary training programs, carpooling to under served communities, and tilling gardens in honor of Martin Luther King [...]
Top CKP Moments of 2009
Posted in December 31st, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
We cooked. We fed. We conquered. The family of 20 campus kitchens that make up The Campus Kitchens Project saw a lot of highs and lows, cabbage and carrots, PB&J’s and pastas, tomatoes and turkeys in 2009. The year of an ill economy, swine flue epidemic, and a healthcare overhaul also marked a period of [...]
Campus Kitchen Blizzard Survival Techniques from CKUWEC
Posted in December 14th, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
As winter sets in, cold weather campus kitchens are preparing to run cooking and delivery shifts through the iciest days of winter. Ashley McCarthy and other volunteers of the Campus Kitchen at Univeresity of Wisconsin Eau Claire learned some important lessons about planning and quick thinking when wintry conditions become dangerous for volunteers. Read Ashley’s [...]
‘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 [...]
CKP joins national MLK Service Day movement
Posted in January 26th, 2009
by Jordan Kough in
“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the [...]