Empty Bowls to offer soup crawl

Start with a bowl as a road map to take you on a food adventure that will satisfy your hunger and the hunger of others during the Second Harvest Food Bank of Clark, Champaign, and Logan Counties’ (SHFB) Soup Crawl version of the annual Champaign County Empty Bowls fundraiser, 5-8 p.m. Thursday at restaurants throughout the Urbana area.

Empty Bowls is the chance to pick a unique handcrafted bowl to keep and enjoy a variety of soups for a $20 donation and $10 for ages 12-under. The bowls, which will act as admission to the other participating restaurants, will be avail- able 4:30-6:30 p.m. starting at The Farmer’s Daugh- ter restaurant, 904 Miami St. in Urbana.

“We thought this would be a different way of doing things to change the format in Champaign County. The restaurants are excited to participate,” said Jennifer Brunner, Second Harvest development director.

The Farmer’s Daughter will serve broccoli cheddar soup. From there, the other locations include Abuela’s Kitchen, 23 Monument

Square, to serve Venezuelan soup; In Good Taste Market, 12 Monument Square, where Café Paradiso will serve its tomato soup; and Mercy Health Urbana Hospital, 904 Scioto St., Mccauley entrance where they will serve white chicken lasagna soup.

Each stop will offer participants disposable container cups for their soups and can be visited in any order after starting at The Farmer’s Daughter.

The bowls were created by Springfield High School students, who have contributed to the local Empty Bowls fundraisers for a decade.

Funds raised will go toward fighting food insecurity, and a portion will go to relief efforts in Logan County to those affected by recent tornadoes. As a result, there will be no Empty Bowls fundraiser in Logan County this year.