Campus Kitchen receives CoBank Rural Hunger Outreach Grant

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Campus Kitchen at Elon University has received a $5,000 grant from CoBank and The Campus Kitchen Project to fight rural hunger in Alamance County.

The grant will help student volunteers continue to provide more than 200 meals to community members each week through a collaborative relationship with Allied Churches of Alamance County and the Community Services Agency of Alamance County.

Additionally, the money will be used to help achieve three major goals. The first is to help enhance operations on Loy Farm, the on-campus farm, by expanding harvest and distribution of fresh produce to rural residents, and to pilot summer nutrition education programs and service opportunities for area youth.

Campus Kitchen at Elon University also will develop a series of nutrition information presentations and cooking demonstrations through a partnership with Healthy Alamance. Presentations and demonstrations begin in January 2016 as part of the launch of a new farmer’s market in the North Park neighborhood of Burlington.

Finally, Stacey Rusterholz, Campus Kitchen project coordinator, will help facilitate resource sharing among North Carolina institutions that are fighting hunger in their communities. The hope is to help other insitutions expand their programs and potentially start their own Campus Kitchen.

if you are interested in learning more about Campus Kitchen please visit the Kernodle Center website or Facebook page.