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TKP Nutrition Insights- Sodium
TKP Nutrition Insights- SODIUM This month we launch a series of newsletter topics related to some of the very important areas of nutrition here at Teen Kitchen Project. In order to achieve our goal of Building Healthier Communities Through Food -- we put a lot of...
SANTA CRUZ STYLE talks about Teen Kitchen!
On a sunny Monday afternoon, eight teen volunteers were busy inside a commercial kitchen in Soquel preparing meals for cancer patients and their families. The middle and high school students were clad in white aprons bearing
Nonprofit Organization of the Year
We're exceedingly pleased to have been chosen for this years NEXTie. We at Teen Kitchen are constantly striving to grow, to teach, to feed more clients each year. We thank every one of our donors and invaluable volunteers–we would not be here if not for you. The...
Hunger Fighter of the Year
Each year a distinguished panel of local mayors, publishers, and other community leaders considers a broad portfolio of deserving nominees and selects two local individuals for their extraordinary efforts in fulfilling the Second Harvest mission to end hunger and...
Angela Farley: Woman of the Week
I met Angela Farley in 2012 when she reached out to me while I planning the second Mamas Night Out event. After an article appeared in the newspaper about the event, I got an email from her telling me that she was a local cancer mom, had no idea there were other...
Cooking For A Cause
Teens cook for cancer patients, helping one meal at a time Ruby Silvera, Staff Reporter March 5, 2014 Clare Yue and I pull up to a small building in a corner of Soquel, home to The Teen Kitchen Project, a volunteer-based service that prepares meals for those suffering...
How Do Caretakers Take Care of Themselves? An Interview with Angela Farley: Part One
In this two-part interview, Angela Farley of Teen Kitchen Project talks about why nutrition is vital for cancer patients and their families Posted on November 1, 2014 by Marissa Abruzzini (Blog Writer, SevenPonds) Today SevenPonds speaks with Angela Farley, the...
Teen Kitchen Project Dishes Up Compassion
By Tara Fatemi Walker September 23, 2014 "“ How would you like" to attend a wonderful dinner in an idyllic farm setting, that will simultaneously honor, celebrate, and raise money for a unique local program?" The" Teen Kitchen Project" (TKP)" is holding its" second...
Teen Kitchen Project Celebrates First Year With “Taking Root! A Farm Dinner”
October 1, 2013 “ The Teen Kitchen Project isn't your average afterschool program. Since starting in Santa Cruz County in September 2012, 75 local teens have volunteered 800 hours to make more than 5,300 meals for 51 individuals with life-threatening illnesses and...
Be The Difference Award, Santa Cruz Volunteer Center
Teen Kitchen Project- Since 2011, the Teen Kitchen Project has provided teens with an opportunity to learn cooking skills, while giving back to the community. Chefs and nutritionists help teens learn to cook healthy, nourishing food. The meals are delivered by adult...
Cooking up comfort, confidence and community
Cooking up comfort, confidence and community By Elizabeth Limbach Photography by Patrice Ward When Angela Farley's son Charlie began recovering from the lung cancer he contracted at the astonishingly young age of four, she didn't expect to stay long in "the cancer...
Cooking with love: Teen volunteers prepare meals for cancer patients
From The Santa Cruz Sentinel September 28, 2012 By Bonnie Horgos SANTA CRUZ - Karine Gonzales has breast cancer that metastasized to her bones and lungs, making it difficult for her to breathe, let alone cook. "It's very involved to get all of the ingredients...
Volunteers Get Cooking: Teen Kitchen Project serves up meals for families in crisis
From The Register-Pajaronian December 31, 2014 by Todd Guild SOQUEL - During the time her then 5-year-old son was undergoing chemotherapy, Angela Farley was still tasked with the household chores and other responsibilities that underscore day-to-day living. At the end...