Even though it is getting colder outside, the kitchen was nice and warm at Community Harvest. Donations and vegetables from the Community Garden allow us to continue providing hot meals in Milton every Monday at St. Andrew's Church.
This week the main course was baked ham and mashed sweet potatoes! Volunteers started out by peeling and chopping the potatoes. We had help from Delta Gamma and Alpha Chi Omega sorority members, and Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers from Bucknell.
After the potatoes were chopped, they were boiled down to a mashed consistency. The results smelled delicious and tasted even better! The potatoes were picked earlier that day from the Community Garden.
The Garden also provided us with vegetables for a salad: green and red peppers, spinach, kale, and sunchokes. Sunchokes are a type of artichoke that tastes like water chestnuts.
The salad was topped with a homemade dressing made from scratch with apple cider vinegar. When it came time to serve dinner, we had help from a local youth group and more brothers from Sigma Phi Epsilon.
The volunteers also helped organize the Community Harvest pantry, in efforts to be approved for donations from the Food Bank! Over seventy people ate meals at Community Harvest this week.
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