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As the new school year begins at colleges and universities across the country, students at two historic Baptist schools are taking Jesus’ command to feed the hungry and quench the thirsty quite literally.  Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Baylor University in Waco, Texas, are feeding their local communities through the Campus Kitchens Project. The initiative is an effort by students to keep extra food on their campuses from going to waste -- and to challenge the very roots of malnutrition in their communities. Read more...

Follow Campus Kitchen blogger Teddy Aronson as he travels through Jordan exploring food and culture.  Follow his adventures at http://vsc.groups.wfu.edu/ckwfu/blog/

The Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest is the beneficiary of the Volunteer Service Corps's 1st Annual Homecoming service project.  Throughout the week leading up to Homecoming (October 5-10), students and alumni can donate canned goods to CKWFU in residence halls, the ZSR Library, Benson University Center, and at the football game on Saturday.  Keep a lookout for boxes around campus and contribute to this campus wide celebration of coming home!

What began as a whim for two students during their freshman year is now a campus garden in full bloom on Polo Road. Current Sophomores Whitney Johnson and Alex Pompey were inspired to plant a garden while taking the freshman writing seminar “You Are What You Eat” this past spring. Jamin Rowan, a Teaching Fellow for the English department, had students research several universities’ food chains from the growth and production of their food to the food’s decomposition. Read more...

• 9/3, 7:00 pm: Meet to discuss campus community garden
• Annenburg Forum (Carswell Hall)
• Contact Dr. Jamin Rowan: rowanjc@wfu.edu

Read more about the WFU Campus Garden

The Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University recently got some extra help with feeding the hungry.

Quaker Oats, in partnership with Share Our Strength, gave a $500 Quaker Go Grant to Wake's Campus Kitchen to help it maintain service to area agencies during the summer, when donations from campus dining services decrease.

The Campus Kitchen at Wake started three years ago, but has already grown to serve 1,200 meals a month through seven different Winston-Salem agencies. These include the Children's Home, Prodigals Community, residential communities of AIDS Care Service and homeless and other groups served by First Assembly of Food.

Read the rest of the article in the Winston-Salem Journal

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Waste not, want not is the motto of Wake Forest's community kitchen workers. For the past three years, unserved food from the school's cafeteria is turned into nutritious meals and served to the needy as part of the Wake Forest Campus Kitchen program. Watch the video