School's Out for Summer, But Lunch is Still Being Served
School is out for summer, but lunch is still being served thanks to efforts by the Campus Kitchen at Northwestern University (CKNU) to feed.
CKNU will provide 20,000 free lunches to Illinois children during their summer break from school through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Sodexo.
The lunches, which use local produce and are prepared by student volunteers at Northwestern University's Campus Kitchen, fill the void left by free school lunch and breakfast programs. According to a recent Associated Press article, the Food Research and Action Center reports that states and cities cut summer feeding programs in 2009 as need increased.
CKNU’s Feeding our Future meal program began July 6 and runs through August 30. This marks The Campus Kitchens Project’s fifth year providing free summer lunches to area students through the Feeding Our Future program.
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CKUMB Learns the Art of Fresh Salsa
Those who walked into Boston's East Zone Early Learning Center classroom Monday, May 24 might have encountered a site a little out of the ordinary: 130 elementary students sitting eagerly in front of plates of roma tomatoes.
The tomatoes, donated by Food for Free to the Campus Kitchen at University of Massachusetts Boston, served as the base ingredient to the afternoon's salsa making lesson. Campus Kitchen coordinator Chelsea Goulart and Campus Kitchen volunteers organized the event to celebrate the recent tilling of the Campus Kitchen salsa garden on ELC-East's grounds, and show students the benefits they could soon be reaping from fresh produce.
"We wanted to show them what they would be doing once things grow," said Goulart. "And that good food can be healthy for you."