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Garden! Help run healthy market with kids at Flatbush school - Be the change!
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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8 people are interested
Join a dynamic new Hip2B Healthy School initiative in Flatbush!
We are running a market on Wednesdays at 7:30 to 8 am and we also have teachers who want to expand the garden after school 2:30-4:30 pm on Wednesdays.
We plan to expand to other days on these activities.
If you love to garden and can help - or just want to be part of a movement in which you are an active participant in food justice - working with students and teachers to create access to fresh fruits and vegetables and healthy options, this is for you.
We accept all offers of volunteerism on any day. We want partners also to help us meet with students to organize our market so we can expand to a real farmers market.
Right now, students and teachers serve fresh orange juice and fresh juices at the morning market. We plan to expand hours - hopefully to afterschool - and also offerings - parfaits, smoothies, icies, and more...
Can you help us build?
Please send us an email at info@seedsinthemiddle.org and tell us what you can do and what hours you are available.
Students can also meet during their lunch hour : 11:15- 12 noon
Flatbush is one of the e neighborhoods ranked among NYC's most food-insecure zones, by the NYC Health Dept. and multiple studies. There is limited access to fruits and vegetables and overwhelming junk food options. These neighborhoods have among the highest obesity, diabetes, heart disease rates in the city - mainly due to lack of access to affordable fresh produce and healthy activities. Be the change!
We also plan to hold an all-day Saturday market in June - so you can also volunteer for that.
But again - we take all offers!
HELP TEACHERS AND STUDENTS BUILD THEIR GARDEN
HELP STUDENTS IN THEIR HIP2B HEALTHY MARKET and help us expand to a full farmers market - run by students!
We give community service credits.
A little more detail below -
FYI - if you are a chef or love to cook and want to share healthy eating, help us host Chef Nights at schools... Obligation - Weekday night 4-8 pm
Looking for anyone who wants to work with students and families and educators and the local commuity to effect sustainable change by building local capacity.
All talents and skills welcome - even an hour-long yoga class.
Yes, we give internships (and welcome students of all ages to get community service credits, internship credits, etc.)
Can you cook healthy? Please offer a recipe, a demo or class, whatever you'd like to share. We can schedule together and we will promote your business.
Do you cook or want to share a healthy recipe that day? Even hot oatmeal or smoothies? Then help us run our Hip2B Healthy Markets.. No experience necessary - just a passion for healthy food and sharing nutrition and a quality life with all.
Seeds in the Middle is a joyful partnership with volunteers and communities to have fun while getting healthy and empowering kids to create their own healthy environments, when there's nothing around them. Central Brooklyn is one of 3 neighborhoods with the highest obesity, diabetes and heart disease rates - due to lack of accessible, affordable fresh food and fitness. Let's change that together. Everyone is welcome.
All ages welcome, families, too! Students - get community service credits. And let us know if you want to continue to volunteer for Saturday markets!
More info? Email - info@seedsinthemiddle.org
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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
2500 Nostrand AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11210
DATE POSTED
April 26, 2018
SKILLS
- STEM
- Food & Beverage Services
- Nutrition
- Marketing & Communications (Mar/Com)
- Environmental Education
- Gardening
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- At least 2-4 hours
- Love kids, healthy food, gardening, be reliable