The Campus Kitchen plans to use vegetables from the farmers market to make healthy meals for up to 250 neighborhood kids every day. On Sunday through Thursday nights, Augsburg students will lead free cooking classes on campus where participants will learn how to cook healthy meals on a budget, take a meal or two home with them, and use the class to prepare all 250 meals for the following day.

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Senior Joanna Flaten, Brian Noy of Campus Kitchens, and Urness hall director Amanda Temple coordinated the last-minute food collection effort. Two van-loads of food were donated to the Brian Coyle Center, and Campus Kitchens was able to use some of the food in a meal they prepared on Sunday evening.

“Next year, we hope it will be a bigger, campus-wide effort,” said Temple, “but I thought of the idea rather last minute and only put a collection bin in the Urness/Mortensen lobby.”

Because the Residence Life staff is busy with the physical aspect of move-out, both Temple and Amanda Erdman, Augsburg’s director of residence life, would like to see another campus office coordinate donations next year. Temple said, “We’d like to see a clothing donation, and maybe they could have a garage sale with proceeds benefiting a campus event or organization.”

Temple added that many people took discarded furniture, some of which was in almost-new condition. “There was no organization involved, but I know several people got good things out of the experience.”

The effort was a spontaneous conclusion to Urness’ “Go Green” initiative held in the month of April. Erdman said, “The Urness staff efforts throughout the month set the tone that led to such a quick success in the food donation and item exchange.” Erdman added that Residence Life hopes to move to more sharing and exchanging of items between community members in future closings.

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Turkeypalooza requires huge participation on behalf of the Augsburg  community because standard Campus Kitchens meals operate off of rescued donations. During Turkeypalooza, making traditional Thanksgiving meals means soliciting all of the ingredients to make turkeys, pumpkin pies, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, Jell-O salad, and stuffing.

A featured event during Turkeypalooza is “Take Your Turkey to Work Day” on Friday, Nov. 9. Faculty and staff are invited to take a turkey to work and donate it to Campus Kitchens. A table will be set up in Christensen all morning to

receive the turkeys. Over the next 2 weeks, departments on campus are also invited to participate in sponsoring a food item. Items needed include gravy mix, onions, canned pumpkin, potatoes/instant potatoes, graham crackers, pie crust mix, cream of mushroom soup, green beans, French fried onions, butter and evaporated milk.

If you are interested in participating, or would like more information, please e-mail Brian Noy at noy@augsburg.edu.

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