The Kansas Wheat Commission is teaming up with the Home Baking Association to promote Bake and Take Month in March. For more than 40 years, Bake and Take Month has been a great opportunity to celebrate relationships with friends and family by baking and sharing homemade goods with them.  

Participants who share their stories of the Bake and Take experience with the Kansas Wheat Commission by April 16, can be entered into a random drawing for a Home Baking Association “Gift Basket,” plus the popular “Baking with Friends” cookbook by Kansas authors Charlene Patton and Sharon Davis. The Kansas Wheat Commission also will give away its “Kansas Gold” book, a 50-year history of the Kansas Wheat Commission complete with historical recipes.  

“Bake and Take Month has a long tradition in Kansas. There is no better way to show people you care about them, or appreciate them, than by baking something homemeade and delivering it to their doorstep,” says Cindy Falk, nutrition educator of Kansas Wheat and coordinator of Bake and Take Month. 

Bake and Take Day began in 1970 as a community service project of the Kansas Wheathearts in Sumner County. The Kansas Wheathearts, an auxiliary organization of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers,  set out to share baked goods with family members, friends, neighbors, and those in need, generating goodwill in the community. The idea of a community member sharing a favorite recipe with someone special became so successful that the Kansas Wheathearts created a national Bake and Take Day celebration in 1973. Even though the Kansas Wheathearts disbanded in 2001, the tradition continues to be supported by KWC and KAWG.

To be eligible for the “book bundle” prize pack, participants of Bake and Take month should visit www.kansaswheat.org and under the “Consumers” section, click on Bake and Take Month for a brochure and entry form. For a hard copy of the entry form, write to Kansas Wheat, 217 Southwind Place, Manhattan, KS 66503.

Contest participants should include the following information: name, organization (4-H club, FCE, church group, etc.), phone number, mailing address, and a note describing the Bake and Take activity. Entries must be postmarked by Friday, April 15, 2011.

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