Nurturing Berea’s families through nutrition education programming, food security efforts, and free summer meals.
Free Summer Meals
Berea Kids Eat program provides high-quality, nutritious meals and enrichment opportunities to Berea youth ages 18 and under, primarily during the summer when school is not in session. Since 2016, Berea Kids Eat has served thousands of meals to youth locally.
Nutrition Education Programming
Nutrition education community outreach and programming at Glades Garden in Berea. Glades Garden is a Grow Appalachia stewarded activation space for youth and families to learn hands-on skills focused on growing, cooking, and preserving food. Berea Kids Eat has also hosted the Sprouts Youth Farmers Market.
Food Security Efforts
Berea Kids Eat collaborates strategically with national and local partners to support food security and wellness in Berea with regional impact.
2026 Summer Meals Program
We hope you will join us this summer at one of our meal sites! This year we are offering multi day meals at Berea Independent Schools (1 Pirate Pkwy), similar to our COVID meal service programming. You will enter Berea Community as though you were going to park for the Swimming Pool. There will be staff on site to help direct you to where the line will start.
Multi-Day Meal Service will be on Tuesdays and Fridays from 12:30-2:30 PM starting June 2nd until August 4th. We will not operate on Juneteenth (Friday, June 19th) or on Friday July 3rd in observance of July 4th.
We will be utilizing the Ticket Tailor app again this year for parents who would like to utilize the parent pick-up option. This means that if you do NOT get a ticket, you CAN pick up meals, but you MUST bring your children. If you cannot sign up, and you do not bring your children with you, we CANNOT give you meals.
Tickets will open on Friday afternoons, after 2:30 PM. You must sign up weekly to utilize the parent pick-up option. Signing up is also NOT a guarantee that you will receive meals, it is only a guarantee that you can utilize the parent pick-up option. Please watch the video below to see the Ticket Tailor process.
If for any reason Ticket Tailor does not work for you or you have questions, please contact Lara Armstrong at armstrongl3@berea.edu. As a reminder, tickets for next will be available tomorrow, Friday May 29th in the afternoon.We will also be offering parent-pick up for those parents who are not able to bring all of their children with them to a pick-up site. Signs-up along with more information can be found on our Facebook page.
Berea Kids Eat is also hosting programming and lunches at Glades this summer, on Wednesday and Thursdays from 11 AM-1 PM. Programming will start on Wednesday June 10th.
We will also be operating at the Levitt Amp Concert Series with Amp Berea with a local food truck vendor. Dates to come soon!
For more up-to-date information, please follow us via our Facebook page.
