- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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2 people are interested
Adopt a school farm stand - help them grow
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
2 people are interested
Seeds in the Middle will be running student-run farm stands across NYC for 2024.
We are particularly seeking for people who would like to adopt a school farm stand and help students and community get more neighbors to shop at the market and help the school community build the market so it can become a fundraiser for the school.
The markets are generally on Wednesdays, Thursdays or Fridays, set up starting at about 12:30-1 - and breakdown between 4-5:30p. - you can volunteer for a date and come even for 2 hours.
Our markets also need your help to advertise to the community, offering healthy recipes or doing cooking demos to attract people, maybe delivering bags to seniors or those in need in nearby buildings.
If you have any experience running farm stands or gardens or farms, and believe in teaching people "to fish" so they can ensure they have fresh food markets like others in more affluent places, this may be for you.
You need to commit to come at least 4 times... and
And be screened by the director.
This is a great internship possibility for those interesting in tackling food injustice, and building food equity, and fighting food insecurity.
If there are other markets you'd like to help at - just go to our volunteer page
at https://bit.ly/volunteerwithseeds
See all our markets - https://bit.ly/seedsinthemiddlemap
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About Seeds in the Middle
Location:
153 Warren Street, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, US
Mission Statement
Seeds in the Middle partners with students, educators, parents & their communities to access all opportunities, beginning with improving health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale educational and social disparities. Our pilot schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with among the city’s highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. We teach how to grow, market, cook, access and prepare fresh food, how to exercise & engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our volunteers come from all walks of life. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.
Description
Seeds in the Middle offers joyful, healthy interventions that nurture the whole child and address the multiple obstacles blocking low-income children and families from getting healthy. We teach how to grow edible gardens, run a student-led Hip2B Healthy Market, bring chefs into schools, started soccer, running and fitness programs at school and in the community and music and arts in the schools. We integrate professional development for teachers so that a healthy lifestyle and environmental stewardship becomes organic and sustainable in the school community. To build community, we created Soccer for Harmony tournaments and the Crown Heights Farmers Market. In two years, we have engaged more than 1,000 families, and students and teachers report changing their habits to include more fruits and vegetables, and fitness. This is a pilot for any school and Seeds in the Middle plans to replicate.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
2163 Dean StreetBrooklynBrooklyn, NY 11212
DATE POSTED
March 23, 2024
SKILLS
- General Education
- Mentoring
- Environmental Education
- Event Planning / Management
- Food Service
- Advertising
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- one day a week at least, 12 -4p, plus remote to advertise
- must be reliable, sensitive to low-income neighborhood, want to make change, dedicated