ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
Help us a community-run farm and flea markets and help us sustainably challenge food insecurity.
Did you know Black and Latino residents of NYC are dying at 2 or 3x the rate of more affluent communities from COVID-19 or that they have the highest rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease - all underlying conditions that make COVID_19 all that more dangerous?
Fight for equal access to fresh food for all, with us. Help us challenge these terrible statistics by helping all fight COVID-19 with nutrients: fresh fruits and vegetables
Help us at our farm stands in central Brooklyn. This can be virtual or on-site
We need volunteer help a few days a week in central Brooklyn - Flatbush, Brownsville, Crown Heights.
Please let us know if you can help out and just give us your hours. We also have virtual work. Hours can be anywhere from 10 am - 7 pm
Want to help deliver for us with as new Direct Fresh plan for Brownsville, Flatbush, Wyckoff - Boerum Hill - Gowanus and more of central Brooklyn?
Where is our winter market?
153 Warren Street, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, US
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.
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.
Multiple locations Brooklyn, NY 11233
April 15, 2022