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MLK Day of Service! Food Justice! Youth! Save a Brownsville, Brooklyn farm!
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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20 people are interested
Do you believe every child has the right to eat healthy, to get affordable access to fresh fruits and vegetables!
Then stand up for Green Valley Farm.
Join the community in the greenhouse and make posters, sign petitions, write letters, begging Mayor de Blasio to save Green Valley Farm - instead of bulldozing it to create more apartment buildings.
Martin Luther King lived and died for civil rights - help a deserving community save their one source of fresh food in Browsville, Brooklyn - one of the city's worst food deserts.
We're going to make posters and plaster them on the fences around Green Valley Farm to appeal to the city NOT to destory this farm, which provides fresh food for 1,000 people who live in a food desert - inundated with fast food outlets, bodegas and expensive, old produce.
Brenda Duchene at Green Valley Farm gives local children lessons on how to grow food, why to eat healthy so that they don't get preventable diseases like diabetes and heart disease.
Want to make a real change on the ground in an underserved, deserving neighborhood? Join us for a healthy Brownsville.
Here's what you can do:
- donate art supplies for the posters
- lead youth and families on how to make fantastic posters
- teach healthy cooking or just bring healthy food
- donate fresh produce for healthy cooking
- make posters wilth you and help post them on the fences surrounding the greenhouse
- call the media to tell them to cover this joint city effort to save an invaluable source of health in one of the city's poorest, unhealthiest neighborhoods
- perform music to entertain our artists as they create posters
- teach about gardening, help kids sow some seeds...
If you want to create a MLK Million Youth March to save the garden, then step on up. We need an organizer.
Want to join? Send email to info@seedsinthemiddle.org and tell us what you can do.
Yes, we give community service letters. Appropriate for all ages. Do good - cross the city and help those most in need so they can eat healthy like you.
Want to do something about disparities? This is your chance.
NEED MORE INFO? CALL BRENDA AT 718-498-3174
See info on Green Valley Farm at these links:
http://www.volunteermatch.org/results/opp_detail.jsp?oppid=2238638
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/12/09/brownsville-community-garden/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gardeners-protest-plans-dig-brownsville-urban-farm-article-1.2914399
http://brooklyn.news12.com/news/brooklyn-residents-rally-to-save-farm-in-brownsville-1.12772411
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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
Green Valley Farm93 New Lots AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11212
DATE POSTED
January 9, 2017
SKILLS
- Public Relations
- Gardening
- Environmental Education
- Cooking / Catering
- Community Outreach
- Farming
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Flexible
- Just be reliable and passionate about health, kids and food justice