As Campus Kitchens and other thought-leaders in the poverty community gear up for Hungry for Justice: Social, Economic, Environmental – a collaboration between Baylor University’s Poverty Summit and The Campus Kitchens Project – one café quietly continues to feed the Waco, Texas residents and build community, one plate of food at a time. Gospel Café [...]
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Groceries vs. Dining Out: A Map of Breakdown in Major Cities for Campus Kitchens
Posted in June 25th, 2010
Sometimes graphics speak louder than words. Ever looked around your adopted community and wondered how much families spend on dining out vs. grocery shopping? Campus Kitchens look at factors like these weekly as they decide who to serve, what’s on the menu, and how to infuse a meal drop off with nutrition. Recently, Flowingdata.com, a [...]
Foodies on Food Stamps: A Lesson in Economy and Freshness for Campus Kitchens
Posted in March 23rd, 2010
Campus Kitchenites interact daily with families and individuals living on tight food budgets, but how many of you have struck up a conversation with them about what kinds of food they are buying on their budget? If you have, you might have gotten responses like “I can’t afford to eat healthy”. An article recently posted on [...]
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 [...]
When the Safety Net Rips
Posted in July 15th, 2009
by Alex Carrick in
A story in yesterday’s New York Times revealed how close to 300 people are going to lose their food stamp benefits in NYC for failing to disclose the fact that they were legally married. The kicker is that food stamp benefits are based on people living inside the home, not marital status. In some cases [...]
Is being poor expensive?
Posted in June 3rd, 2009
by Jordan Kough in
When is the last time you went to the bank? Hopped in your car to go shopping? Did your laundry at an opportune hour? My daily life is pretty easy. Mostly everything is scripted and generally painless. I check my bank statements online, I do my laundry at 9pm on weekdays and I pay higher [...]
2009: Summer of Hunger?
Posted in May 26th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Check out the series “Summer of Hunger,” which focuses on hunger in Lee County, Florida. The photographs are striking, and so is the coverage. In a county where two-thirds of children receive free or reduced lunch, the media and the nonprofit community are coming together to look at solutions. What if the newspaper in your [...]
Read, then digest: from harvest to laundromat
Posted in May 22nd, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Ample Harvest? Pass some along: Wasted Food blogs about Ample Harvest, a high-tech way to connect gardeners with extra produce to food pantries that need fresh food. Perhaps it’s one of a number of ways that technology might change the food system, but in the meantime, the Campus Kitchen at the University of Vermont’s Plant a Row [...]
Part 2: Why can’t everyone eat local food? CKGC on the Food Justice Immersion Project
Posted in May 21st, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Food immersion: Harvesting spinach Start with a question, like: Why can’t everyone have local food? And you’ll find more questions: Where does my food come from? How is it picked, processed, packaged and sold? Who does the picking, processing, packaging, and selling? Where is fresh food available? When? To whom? Christine Nemetz, the coordinator at the Campus Kitchen [...]
Part 1: CKGC on an adventure into the food system
Posted in May 20th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
They arrived at the grocery store in tiny Fairfield, PA at 8:01, just after closing time. After spending the day investigating the food system in Adams County, Christine Nemetz, coordinator at the Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College, and five students were famished. On last week’s Food Justice Immersion Project, they explored farmer’s fields and the lived experience of poverty, a fruit processing [...]