Remote Learning Life just got a little more enriched with the delivery of fresh food and Meal Kits to prepare it for kids and families who signed up for Beacon’s Free Remote Meals by Friday, October 9, 2020. Kits will include items such as a child-safe knife and cutting board, olive oil, a seasonal recipe and a recipe binder. This initiative has been made possible through local organizations in a collaborative project of the Beacon City School District, Common Ground Farm, Land to Learn, Fareground and Green Teen Beacon to ensure that all students have access to fresh food both in school and at home.

To get this Meal Kit, you need to have signed up by Friday, October 9, 2020, which you can do online here. If you have already signed up, you are good. You don’t need to sign up again for this special kit.

Says Erika Rincon, Beacon’s Farm to School Coordinator who works for Common Ground Farm about the program: “Each month, we will highlight our Vegetable of the Month by including the vegetable, a simple recipe, and fun facts! We will also supply families with video demonstrations and a link to participate in a recipe taste test after you have made the dish! In October, we will be featuring kale from Common Ground Farm!”

Kids are used to the Vegetable of the Month concept, as it was incorporated into the school menu, and at South Avenue and possibly other schools, playful and interactive charts were posted about it in the school cafeteria.

October 9th is also the deadline to sign up to have remote meals delivered to your home. Once you have signed up to receive a free breakfast/lunch meal, and you know that you will have trouble picking it up from one of the Beacon destinations, you are able to sign up for Delivery by school bus. Don’t be shy. Just sign up now for delivery so that they can organize (deadline October 9, 2020). Delivery begins on October 21, 2020.

If you are reading this after October 9, 2020, and have not yet signed up for Free Meals, you can do that at any time by clicking here.