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The Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee


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CKWL began in 2006 due to the dedication of a senior student, Ingrid Easton. Easton graduated before operations officially began, but her legacy lives on. In March of 2010 CKWL served its 50,000th meal. Meals are served in partnership with fifteen community agencies in a manner that best serves their needs- hot congregate meals, refrigerated individual meals, and most recently backpacks of non-perishable food supplies.

CKWL has made an impact in nutrition education locally for adults and children. The organization partners with the local Free Clinic to provide healthy low sugar and low sodium meals for group diabetic patients, and also to provide education for the clients to fight their disease with lifestyle changes as well as medication. Two separate youth organization- the local YMCA summer camp and the Lexington City Office on Youth summer program- are benefiting from CKWL's "Seed to Feed" nutrition education which links to growing food in our organic garden.

The Campus Kitchen also provides the opportunity for students to develop their leadership skills. Each year the student leadership team, composed of 18 members, takes control of the operational aspects of our kitchen's volunteer shifts. CKWL also provides students the opportunity to develop important skills- grant writing, program development, event organizing and health department approved culinary practices.


The focus of CKWL is hunger relief and leadership development, but our kitchen has become a leader in environmentally sustainable practices on campus and in the community. Each week we recycle over 1,000 pounds of food that used to end up in landfills. The food we are unable to serve, such as scraps and leftovers, are composted. CKWL is working to reduce waste, but with the additional purpose of using the available resources in our community to provide a needed service for the hungry in Rockbridge County.

Campus Kitchen is sponsored in part by the Friends of Rockbridge Endowment, the W&L Executive Committee and the United Way of Rockbridge, Inc.

 

 

 

News

  • Shop for Tots in LexingtonW&L’s Campus Kitchen Teams up with Shop for Tots
    This year, children taking part in the annual Rockbridge Area Shop for Tots program received a little something extra. They got to eat a full dinner provided by Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee University (CKWL) at the American Legion in Buena Vista before they set out to do their Holiday shopping. More than 145 [...]
  • Shiri Yadlin, Class of 2012, Washington and Lee UniversityW&L Student Wins National Award from Campus Kitchens Project
    Shiri Yadlin, a Washington and Lee University senior from Irvine, Calif., won the Ingrid Easton Student Visionary Award from the Campus Kitchens Project at its national conference in St. Louis, Mo., last week. The award is named for Ingrid Easton, a 2006 graduate of W&L who opened the University's Campus Kitchen in September 2006. It [...]
  • Harlan Beckley, director of the Shepherd Poverty Program at Washington and Lee University and Fletcher Otey Professor of RelgionBeckley Named to Campus Kitchens Project's National Board
    Harlan Beckley, the Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Religion and director of the Shepherd Poverty Program at Washington and Lee University, has been named to a three-year term on the Board of Visitors of the Campus Kitchens Project (CKP). Beckley is one of nine new board members who CKP announced at its annual conference on [...]
  • Washington and Lee University Campus Kitchen VolunteersWashington and Lee’s Campus Kitchen Receives Walmart Grant
    Serving more than 600 meals a week to people in the community, the students of Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee University (CKWL) will take all the help they can get. The Rockbridge County-based organization recently received a $25,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation State Giving Program to help them do more to fight hunger [...]
  • Shepherd Alliance Internship Program Holds Opening Conference
    About 60 students from Washington and Lee University and six other colleges gathered in Lexington this weekend to begin their participation in the Shepherd Alliance Summer Internship Program.
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From the Blog

  • January 2012 Statistics and Volunteer Spotlight
    In January CKWL… -served 2,464 meals -passed along  6,680 lbs of food to local food pantries -enlisted 422 volunteer hours from 71 volunteers -recovered  7,936 lbs of food that would otherwise have gone to waste Thank you to our dedicated volunteers!  Each month we will feature the volunteers who cross a new threshold in service … Keep reading →
  • Stonewall Jackson Hospital Donating Food
    Yesterday was our first official food pick-up from the Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lexington!  We are thrilled to be receiving prepared food from another donor.  Today we received sweet and sour chicken, herbed potatoes, rice pilaf, creamed spinach, corn and cornbread muffins.  The hospital has much smaller quantities of leftovers than the dining halls at … Keep reading →
  • Service Learning
    This week has been quite busy as the Campus Kitchen is taking a role in academic experiences.  Professor Art Goldsmith is teaching the Economics of Social Issues and has requested that his students get involved with the Campus Kitchen.  We are THRILLED with the influx of volunteers and excited to introduce more of the W&L … Keep reading →