1.15.10: Pressure Canning Tomato Sauce
Owning a pressure canner is your gateway to eating fresh and local, all year round. It is a safe, easy, and fun way to save those bountiful summer harvests and to make sure you’ve always got something in your Campus Kitchen pantry. Here, I will provide basic, step-by-step instructions for canning [...]
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‘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 [...]
ABP Recognizes 2 Campus Kitchens
Posted in October 1st, 2009
by Joelle Johnson in
10.1.09: On September 23rd the Associated Baptist Press highlighted the Campus Kichens at Baylor and Wake Forest University. The article takes a look at the people who are directly involved with the programs at each, featuring quotes from leadership team members and coordinators. At Wake Forest, student volunteer Andy Ronan points out how the Kitchen has been a [...]
CKWLU Gets Food Donation from Local Wal-mart
Posted in September 25th, 2009
by Joelle Johnson in
9.25: CKWLU connected with their local Wal-mart earlier this month to rescuse many pounds of quality food from its inevitable dumpster destiny. To find out more, check out the full story below.
A mere two days before the class of 2013 began to arrive at W&L, I went with Jenny to make CKP’s first food pickup from [...]
CKWFU: Building Local Partnerships
Posted in September 1st, 2009
by Joelle Johnson in
9.01.09: Very local parnerships. In fact, right on campus. Thanks to the new Campus Garden at Wake Forest University http://sustainability.wfu.edu/2009/08/28/get-dirty-in-the-new-campus-garden/, CKWFU will be able to utilize donations of fresh produce, grown by students and faculty, right on campus, in their weekly meal preparations. Doesn’t get much more local or sustainable then that! Interested in CKWFU and [...]
CKCWM Gleans 550lbs of Produce!
Posted in August 28th, 2009
by Joelle Johnson in
The group at Hidden Brook Farm
8.25.09: The Campus Kitchen at William and Mary kicked off the 2009 school year with their very first gleaning trip. Jessica Kim and Timmy Siverd, two members of the CKCWM leadership team, coordinated the trip with William and Mary’s annual Students Helping Out Williamsburg (SHOW) Day. SHOW provided the [...]
Read, Then Digest 8-14-09
Posted in August 14th, 2009
by Alex Carrick in
Turns out the beef recall was due to salmonella.
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Salvage Grocers
Posted in August 6th, 2009
by Alex Carrick in
While reading yesterday’s Express on my way to work, I spotted an article that had real relevance to what CKP is doing. The article was titled “Salvage Grocers Catch on”, and it chronicled the rise of grocery stores that specialize in selling food in damaged packaging and just past the sell by date.
The focus of [...]
Read, Then Digest
Posted in July 24th, 2009
by Alex Carrick in
Our friends at Beyond Bread picked tons of corn in their Glean for the City initiative.
Jessica Biel has a bad habit of wasting food.
Don’t mess with Texas, especially when it comes to restaurant waste.
Chris over at First Helping explores how the recession has affected homelessness.
With the Locavore movement gaining steam, local seed banks are beginning [...]
Read: Then Digest
Posted in July 10th, 2009
by Alex Carrick in
A city in Sweden has found a way to easily turn waste into energy.
Our friends over at Beyond Bread have started a new “Glean for the City” initiative. They estimate that each volunteer group can glean enough food to feed 1750 people.
Michelle Obama and her girls were in Rome this past week. It just so [...]