Scholarship pantry boxes from the Bay

Bay pantry boxes

Autumn 2019 we packed scholarship pantry boxes in the Bay so families who could not stay the whole lake week still cooked grain-and-vegetable meals at home. In autumn 2019 the last autumn round left San Rafael with millet, kombu, and a handwritten recipe card for pressure-cooked beans.

The boxes used the same crate habits as camp move-out: heavy items low, glass wrapped, a packing list taped inside the lid. Volunteers who had worked the Pinecrest cleaning crew said it felt familiar, just without the pine needles.

A pantry box is a small move. A household move is a large one. Both fail when jars roll and rice goes damp. If you later carry a whole kitchen across town or across an ocean, keep that inventory card.

We still have spare crates in the San Rafael office if you are staging a teaching-kitchen kit for next summer. Write to us before you tape the first box.