FREEHOLD – The students at Freehold High School have been working hard using their culinary skills to give back to the community.
The students are a part of the Culinary Arts & Hospitality Magnet Program at Freehold High School and have partnered together with Neighborhood Connections to Health to prepare food for the community.
Neighborhood Connections to Health states that their mission is to “Build community partnerships to connect all Freehold residents to healthy living.” The platform wants to make sure everyone in the community has access to healthy and nutritious food.
Some programs Neighborhood Connections to Health have done include hosting Fulfill’s Mobile Food Pantry twice per month, supporting local farms with free vouchers at the DowntownFreehold.com Farmer’s Market, and starting Freehold Food Safety Net group. This group focuses on assuring that local residents have access to basic needs. They’ve also created a seven-dollar meal program to serve those in need who were homebound.
So now that the Neighborhood Connections to Health are partnering with the students at the Culinary Arts & Hospitality Magnet Program, they’ve been able to succeed even further.
Students of the program have been using their culinary skills to plan and prepare food, which includes over 160 quarts of soup and various types of breads to hand out to the community of Freehold.
“During these incredible difficult times, a lot of members of the community are in need and as stakeholders in the community, the Chef Instructors and students in the Culinary Magnet Program are happy to step up and assist,” Freehold High School said in a statement.
Through Neighborhood Connections to Health, students in the Culinary Magnet Program are providing soup and bread to the community weekly throughout the month of February. Currently, they are supporting over 400 local families with their food.
