Nourishing our Community with Healing Food
Every week volunteer teen and adult chefs & gardeners come together to prepare organic healing meals for community members fighting a life threatening illness.  
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If you or someone you know is facing a health crisis due to a life threatening illness and could benefit from the gift of beautiful, delicious and nourishing meals prepared with love, our program is for you.
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Teen Volunteers
Whether it’s in the kitchen or the garden, we will give you endless opportunities to learn and grow while giving back to your community. If you have never cooked, gardened or feel confident in your skills, we’ll find the right place for you, and give you the opportunity to learn more.
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Adult Volunteers
Join the PCK volunteer family of incredible, giving people, who are working together to enrich our community. We have adult volunteer opportunities in
many areas including cooking in the kitchen, spearheading fundraising events, garden help, and more.
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DISHES SERVED PER PERSON A WEEK
DISHES SERVED A WEEK
VOLUNTEERS
VOLUNTEER HOURS A WEEK

PCK Garden Fundraiser 2017

  • $3975RAISED
  • 27%COMPLETE
  • $11025NEEDED
  • $15000GOAL

 

Teen Board members Hannah Fowkes and Mitchel Paterson are inviting teen chefs and our community to help Positive Community Kitchen to offer a complete farm-to-table program.

 

Recently, we’ve been given the opportunity to cultivate fresh produce from our own garden! Currently, PCK relies on donated fruits and vegetables from gracious community members to serve our sixty plus clients weekly. The land has been lent, but we need tools, equipment, soil amendments and even a truck(used) to transport our garden’s goodness to our cooking space.

 

A garden of our own brings full circle a farm-to-table concept where volunteers of all ages can learn about healthy and sustainable lifestyles.

 

We, the teen volunteers are looking forward to opportunities in the garden because we get to see where the food is coming from. We are learning a lot in the kitchen such as knife skills,  preparing a variety of dishes from soups to desserts and working together as a team. However, the garden will only increase these opportunities. We want to get our hands dirty!

 

We know as an organization, the garden will positively impact our community in many ways.

 

Your donation to our garden is a gesture of hope, love, and faith that teens have the power to be positive change agents in the world, starting right here in Eugene. Help us raise $15,000!

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Latest News

19Jun
PCK Featured in the Register Guard

Project nourishment Eugene group provides meals for people with life-threatening illnesses By Cheryl Rade For The Register-Guard June 18, 2017 view

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17Jun
United Way Youth Day of Caring

On June 9th, 60 teens converged on our new garden space to represent the impact of youth and service learning. That morning we worked in the field:

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26May
Thanks for a Successful First Plant Pledge!

What a fabulous Saturday it was kicking off Plant Pledge 2017 and celebrating the new PCK garden located on the property of the Northwest Youth Core!

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02Mar
PCK featured on KEZI 9 News

It is so rewarding to watch this organization grow. Thanks to all our supporters in making this project possible. It makes a difference in so many

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18Feb
A Picture Says A Thousand Thanks

“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” –James Cash Penney A picture says a thousand words. In October

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17Aug
Thank You Generous Produce Donors

From all of us at PCK we just want to send out our warmest, heartfelt thanks to our Pennies from Heaven (as we’ve taken to calling them around

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22Apr
Stock the Shelves for Positive Community Kitchen

Come for a tasty, healthy brunch and baking demo by Shanna Hutton. Please bring an item for PCK. We use organic, gluten free ingredients to prepare

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Positive Community Kitchen Cookbook

The Power of Positive Nutrition

This cookbook contains recipes that we use in the Positive Community Kitchen, adhering to our food philosophy – whole foods that are fresh, organic, delicious, nourishing, nutrient-rich, seasonal, beautiful, minimally processed, gluten-fre
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Gratitude

My delivery angel, Sally, just dropped off dinner for my family and I. This will be our 3rd week on the program. I'm so incredibly grateful for this program and each week I'm amazed at how incredible the food tastes. Thank you to everyone involved in this program. I pray for God's blessings to shower over you all! Love, Sandra (cancer fighting warrior)
I’m so incredibly grateful Sandra

This beautiful group of young men and women helped me and my family while I was going through breast cancer. I have two growing boys, 12 and 13, who eat a lot and only want junk food! However, we fed them this delicious food and they loved it, especially the desserts! I do not know what I would have done without Positive Community Kitchen's support. Best of all, there was enough food left over for the next day!!! PS I always claimed the frittata! No one was allowed to eat it but me!

I do not know what I would have done without Positive Community Kitchen’s support Eve

Dear Kitchen Angels, How your meals help!  Jan is less well and we have been spending much time away in various doctor and medical appointments.  Even though his appetite is diminished, how comforting to know there is tasty, healthful food when we get home after yet another long day.  So grateful!   PS:  Jan especially enjoys the soups and rice/chicken dishes.  Thank you!
How your meals help! Lila

Dear Chef & Wonderful Food Team, You brighten my life every Monday when my "angel" brings yummy and healthy food dishes.  As a single senior lady, it is too much effort to cook such delicious meals for myself. Thank you for caring for others. Many hugs, Joy
You Brighten my Life Joy

Dear PCK Volunteers, Last week was the first week and I was totally WOWED by the volume and variety and quality of food.  Monday was a particularly rough day for me.  The Harvest Minestrone soup was the perfect comfort food!!  Thank you.  The other meals least through the weekend and simplified my life in such healing and thoughtful ways.  You are a gift to out community and I am grateful. Sincerely, Susan
I was totally WOWED by the volume and variety and quality of food Susan

Delivery Angels & all the people at PCK Thank you VERY much for preparing us such lovely meals!  The vegetable fritatta was my personal favourite.  My husband liked the fish and my kids really enjoyed the noodles and vegetables. What an amazing gift you are giving to people life myself, fighting stage 4 lung cancer, and while in the midst of chemo.  Cooking or even looking at food seems like its own battle.  Yet we must eat and eat healthy!  So when my husband and kids come home from a busy day I am prepared and i thank you all for that!! Hugs, Sara
What an amazing gift you are giving to people Sara

To the Positive Community Kitchen: Than you for the Wonderful healing meal you cooked for us last week!  What Delicious food!  Love the quinoa salad and pot pie! You Rock!!

You Rock! Alison & David

Positive Community Kitchen, Please accept my profound gratitude for the generosity you have all extended us during this difficult time.  When we first started with you, I couldn't imagine that soon your gift of nourishment would become such a life saver.  Jan's illness exploded in the last few weeks, leaving little time or energy for anything else.  May your program continue to grow. [icon name="heart" class="" unprefixed_class=""]
May your program continue to grow Lila

What wonderful food from a blessed kitchen staff - Thank you for sharing your kindness and delicious offerings with our house! We are healing & every week is better! Thank you!
Every week is better Alison & David

Dear Positive Community Kitchen, Thank you for weeks of delicious vegi. meals for our family.  It was an absolute joy to receive them every Monday - and helped us on the road to recovery.  We are very lucky in Eugene to have such compassionate folks cooking and delivering.  You all are the best!
Helped us on the road to recovery Alison and David

Dear PCK staff and food team, Many thanks for all the deliciously prepared meals.  We greatly appreciate your efforts and kindness.  It has been so helpful and has meant so much to our entire family. All the best and blessings to all.
It has been so helpful and has meant so much to our entire family Jeff, Lisa, Ryan & Hannah

Dear Chefs and Angels, I want to thank you for the beautiful, healthy, gourmet meal that was provided to me and my family last week.  Last week was our first week to experience your food.  When I received my bag it felt like Christmas as I pulled out each container.  I literally cried while looking at all the wonderful food.  We put the food on our dinner plates and we commented that it felt like we were in a fine dining restaurant eating gourmet food! Your food not only blessed us to have a wonderful cook-free, greasy-free dinner, we were able to use the left overs the next day (Yes, another day without cooking!).  By the way, while I am writing this I am eating your apple cabbage salad.  Yummy! We recently moved to Eugene shortly before my diagnosis, so my circle of friends is small.  Your love and help means so much to me.  It helps me in soooooo many ways,  It is so nice to not have to cook dinner or eat my daily ham sandwiches.  It is especially nice to not have to eat fast food on the nights I don't have the energy to cook!  I am so sick of pizza, Chinese, and greasy burgers!!! You all are awesome and are angels in disguise!  Thank you so, so much!

Your love and help means so much to me Marytes