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MLK Day of Service - Build Gardens/Fresh Market in Flatbush, BK
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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6 people are interested
Help IS 240 on Jan. 20, 2020 - MLK Day of Service - Andreis Hudde Middle School in Flatbush -fix up their gardens, and get their indoor gardening programs up and running, plus their Hip2B Healthy Market.
All talents welcome but especially welcome people expert in agriculture, gardening, edible gardens, worm composting, aqua phonics, hyrophonics, etc.
Ms. Sarria and her gardening team of 6th graders plus the Hip2B Healthy Ambassadors need assistance to get their indoor and outdoor gardening going for 2020.
This is a special project to help children living in a food desert to create a healthier place to live - everyone welcome.
HOURS - 10 am to 1 pm
We will:
- Clean up their outside garden
- Move pots to set up growing in the sunken garden in sunnyside of school
- set up indoor grow boxes
- create a worm composting box
- set up the aquaphonics kits she received
- plant seeds
- create posters and banners for the Hip2B Healthy Market (graphic help needed)
- clean up the park grounds (a small area near the school to plant flowers in spring)
- any and all gardening
- folks to create and help serve refreshments - all healthy!
Want more information - email us at info@seedsinthmiddle.org or call 917-697-3745
GARDENERS, URBAN AGRICULTURE FOLKS - IF YOU WOUL D LIKE TO SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT THIS SCHOOL, PLEASE LET US KNOW - THEY WANT TO GROW SUCCESSFUL EDIBLE GARDENS THIS YEAR.
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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 Avenue - IS 240Brooklyn, NY 11210
DATE POSTED
January 9, 2020
SKILLS
- Environmental Education
- Food & Beverage Services
- Aquarium Maintenance
- Gardening
- Horticulture
- Environmental Science
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- 3 hours - pls be reliable
- Pls be reliable, knowledgeable, self-starter, love community and kids