Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Potato Craze

                There was an influx of potatoes at the Community Harvest this week! So many that we had to start peeling them a week ahead of time! A group of volunteers from Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority and Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity met with CH directors Wednesday in the Bucknell craft center to get a jump on the 75 pounds of potatoes! A few of the volunteers are pictured below. Lemon juice was added to the potatoes to keep them fresh and tasty until Monday afternoon.





                Our regular volunteers, Theresa and Brianna, chopped the potatoes into thin slices to make the main course, a scalloped potato and ham dish. A few more CH regulars cooked and chopped the ham and made the tasty cheese sauce that covered the potatoes.



In addition to ham and potatoes, Community Harvest served a vegetable Medley that consisted of tomatoes, peppers, and green beans! All of the produce came from the Community Garden, which hosted a “Localvore” dinner the night before. Members of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority made the vegetables dish in addition to helping with setup.




Last but not least, Ben found a creative way to serve a variety of greens that also hailed from the Garden. He cooked them down into a spicy mustard green dish that pleasantly surprised the dinner guests!



Finally, dinner was served with the helping hands of volunteers from the Community Mennonite Fellowship Church! The volunteers also greatly helped with clean up, with the aid of some of our younger dinner guests! Dinner served 71 people in total and we expect even more next week!


To volunteer at Community Harvest, check out our website at this link: https://sites.google.com/a/bucknell.edu/community-harvest/

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Pesto Presto



               This week at Community Harvest, meal preparation was extraordinarily quick thanks to the helping hands of our volunteers! Dinner included a delicious pesto chicken dish, salad fresh from the Community Garden, olive oil pasta, and fresh bread. We started by chopping kale, spinach, and other greens that were freshly picked earlier that day.




           Theresa and Tim tossed the salad with craisins and a honey-mustard Dijon salad dressing that Ben mixed together from scratch.



             Our dedicated weekly volunteers Sarah, Emerson, and Brianna chopped up the chicken that was baked by volunteers earlier in the week.



                Ben mixed in the tomatoes (also from the Community Garden!) and freshly ground pesto sauce with the chicken. The end result, pictured below, smelled so fantastic that the volunteers would have eaten the whole thing if we could!



 





                The sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta arrived to help serve dinner and brought a smile to everyone’s face. They were so kind and conversational with all of the guests. And with their help, the clean up process was done in no time. The Community Harvest would not be around without volunteers like these!


If you or your organization would like to help out at Community Harvest (and get to eat amazing food in the process) please check out our site: https://sites.google.com/a/bucknell.edu/community-harvest/home/how-to-get-invovled !

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Stuffed



                As summer winds down, the Community Harvest has been blessed with fresh and tasty produce. This week there was an influx of peppers that we stuffed with delicious pesto rice. Ben and Brianna started the stuffing process, resisting the temptation to take a bite. 


The fall-colored meal smelled even better than it looks.


Ben and John chopped up the extra peppers that Ben improvised into a mouth-watering side dish full of peppers, fresh tomatoes from the Community Garden, and rice.




As soon as the meal was ready, fraternity brothers from Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Phi Epsilon arrived to help serve the meal, talk to the dinner guests, and help clean up!




  The end result was sixty-three happily fed dinner guests and another successful Monday in Milton!

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Gardens For Good Contest- Help Us Win!

The Lewisburg Community Garden is entered in the Gardens For Good contest on Facebook!  
If we receive the most votes we could win one of three $15,000 prizes.  You can vote once per day and voting ends on Sept 30th.  Please follow the link below and vote for us!  Please also consider sharing the link with your friends.  So far this season the garden has grown and donated over 1,500 lbs of organic produce to the local community. With $15,000 in prize money we could do so much more.