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/