- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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15 people are interested
Love to garden? Help us build gardens at Flatbush, BK & Brownsville schools
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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15 people are interested
Love to garden? Or just want to help in a garden?
We have two schools in food deserts and underserved neighborhoods who can use help developing their gardens. All skills welcome - no experience necessary - just a desire to help out.
We are opening our Hip2B Healthy Market outdoors at IS 240-Hudde on Tuesday, June 18 and June 25.
We need help with the market and to help volunteer teacher Mr. Fletcher work on the garden.
2:20 pm on. If you can come out during the summer, also, that would be awesome.
In Brownsville, PS 284 at 213 Osburn Street, is starting a garden and needs help. Just let us know when you can help.
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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
June 15, 2019
SKILLS
- Environmental Education
- Farming
- Botany
- Gardening
- Horticulture
- Nutrition
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Just be reliable and like kids and education.